The palette

Dark oak stairs and planks for the shingles, with a lighter course of spruce every third row; stripped spruce logs standing upright for the plank walls between dark oak log posts; mangrove stairs and planks for the red eave line, the crossed gable boards and the dragon heads, gold blocks for their eyes; cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, stone and andesite for the footing; packed mud and coarse dirt for the floor, magma and campfires in the long hearth; targets for the shields.

Techniques

• A bowed, boat-shaped plan
• A sagging ridge
• Shingles laid in courses
• A roof nearly to the ground
• Crossed boards and dragon heads

The steps

1. Stone footing of the bowed walls
2. Earth floor and the long hearth
3. Wall posts and the door frame
4. Walls of upright planks
5. Raised benches along the walls
6. Two rows of roof posts
7. Leaning outer posts
8. Roof: dark shingles, the sagging ridge
9. Gable fronts: posts, tie beam, doors
10. Porch walls and its carved portal
11. Porch roof and gable
12. Smoke hoods on the ridge
13. Crossed gable boards and dragon heads
14. Shields and lanterns

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