I built a more compact version of this house on another server with somewhat restrictive land claiming. The original only stood for a few days before being destroyed. So I decided to rebuild and improve it here, where its lifespan was much more likely to be longer.

The gardens, stables and hutches wrap around the house inside the walls.

There is an inner courtyard that allows more windows for each room.

The door just on the left leads to a heated bathroom and water closet.

The door on the right leads to the workshop and the basement, which is used for storage and growing rare flora.

Straight ahead is the entrance to the main living area. Downstairs is an open living room and kitchen, upstairs is a small sitting room and bedroom.

The room above the workshop is a small arcane lab for brewing and enchanting. The balcony seen in the previous courtyard shot leads to it.

You may have already figured this out, I'm mentioning it because you haven't mentioned it, just in case. Hope it helps.

Enchantments get more expensive to put on the more you already have piled onto an object. Before starting it's usually good to compare the cost of each enchant applied and then put them on in order of most to least expensive. That way the least expensive will be expensive by the time you get to them but hopefully won't have gone over the limit of how many levels you can use to apply it.

After reading through the other showcase threads I decided to post images of my own recenty completed starter cabin. The cabins design and style was first put together to provide a starter home within a claiming system with 9x9x9 plots. When I decided to dust off the design for a vanilla server I no longer had to stay within this small cube of space and had some fun working with and using the extra elbow room.

The centrepiece of this design is the main living area. The whole cabin is an open plan living space, with the only doors being the cupboard doors and the front door.

To try and keep the feeling of the place cozy the living spaces are mostly in their own nooks. The sleeping area is kept private with its own indoor window shutters.

The outside of the cabin shows that it is almost compleitly made of spruce, oak and regular stone, even the roof. As with any rustic themed build, everythings better with nature.

And thats it. If it gets burned down within the week then it will make a hilarious update to this thread at least.