The palette

Dirt for the turf walls, with coarse dirt and soul soil laid on the slant for the herringbone sods and grass block (a little moss block) for the grassy courses and the roofs; cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, stone and andesite for the field-stone footing, stone and mossy cobblestone stairs leaning on its foot; pale oak planks and stripped pale oak logs for the white timber fronts; stripped dark oak logs, dark oak stairs, slabs and planks for the door frames, sills, drip beams and bargeboards; spruce and dark oak doors, glass panes, campfires on the smoke vents, lanterns on barrels behind the windows.

Techniques

• Herringbone turf
• Roofs that meet in valleys
• White fronts set between turf cheeks
• Dark trim on white
• A field-stone footing

The steps

1. Field-stone footing
2. Turf walls: the first courses
3. Turf walls: the top courses
4. White timber fronts: the walls
5. Doors, the carved door frame and the sills
6. White timber fronts: the gables
7. Drip beams across the gables
8. Cross range and dairy: the turf roofs
9. Front houses: the grass roofs
10. Dark bargeboards, crossed over each apex
11. Smoke vents and the smithy's chimney
12. Lanterns and lit windows

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