Minecraft House Tutorial
Janis Shaeffer
Looking for Minecraft house ideas? There's so much scope for building your dream homes in Minecraft, you're really only limited by your imagination and the blocks at your disposal. Over the past decade, there have been millions of houses built by one of the largest playerbases the world has ever seen - and many of those houses are absolutely breathtaking in their beauty and stature.
Below we've compiled a list of 40 of the best Minecraft house ideas we've ever come across. Each of the homes below has a link to a YouTube video where you can watch each house being built and follow along to create your own. Or you can simply have a scroll through the various houses below, ranging from Japanese pagodas to log cabins, from witch houses to sleek modern mansions, and gain all the inspiration you need to start work on your next Minecraft home.
If you're after inspiration for other architectural projects besides houses, be sure to check out our list of things to build in Minecraft! We've also got dedicated guides for Minecraft tower ideas and Minecraft castle ideas.
If you want to set up home in The Wild Update's new biome, then YouTuber Folli has created a lovely looking starter house out of materials found in the biome. It's a small, cosy, rustic house that strikes me as the perfect forward base to build far from your main home, to make life a little easier.
This wooden house is a starter home worthy of even the best Minecraft seeds. It is made out of more traditional oak and birch wood, but the combination of fences, logs, planks, slabs, and trapdoors adds a lot of variety and texture to the build (even without the use of Minecraft texture packs), and turns the whole thing into a much more appealing starter house than most others you're likely to come across. You can thank YouTuber SheepGG for this particular build.
Another nice compact build from Folli, this Minecraft house is sunk into the ground, with stairs leading up onto the surface at each of the cardinal directions. It's small but stylish, with plenty of room for expansion downwards if you'd like to take this design as inspiration for a slightly larger house. Perhaps a ladder that leads down into a more expansive storage area would be a welcome addition?
In an attempt to create the ultimate underground house, YouTuber ItsMarloe has put together an unusual and striking clover-shaped base with a glass roof that lies flush with the ground. The central circle is for storage, and the outer areas have enough space for farmland, enchanting, sleeping, and everything else you might want to do in your home. It even has a secret room containing a Nether Portal.
If you're after inspiration for a slightly larger base, then take a look at this marvellous fantasy mansion from YouTuber BigTonyMC. This painstakingly crafted manor is made from logs and stone bricks, but the real strength is in the little details. The chains and lanterns, the flora creeping up the walls, the shutters made from trapdoors, and the excellent clock faces in the towers all combine to make this house a real feast for the eyes.
SheepGG brings us a rather different style of home this time, with an attention-grabbing and aesthetically pleasing Japanese pagoda house. Even ignoring the splendid cherry blossom trees on the outskirts made from pink and white wool, this is a fabulous build filled with interesting layerings of wooden slabs and soft lighting provided by lanterns and redstone lamps. And the lighting looks even better with one of the best Minecraft shaders installed - or even ray tracing, if your PC is up to the task.
If you're after another home that blends faultlessly into the landscape, then you can use this lovely mountainside house by JUNS MAB Architecture tutorial as inspiration. The two glass circles provide a lovely look into the small idyllic home from the outside, as well as allowing all that lovely natural sunlight into the home during the day.
This lovely, stylish 3-tier modern house design comes from YouTuber ManDooMiN, and is perfect for players who want an achievable yet striking and beautiful house with lots of modern touches to set it apart from the more traditional rustic Minecraft house aesthetic.
For a more traditional modern mansion-style house, YouTuber IrieGenie has put together a lovely modern house design, complete with pool out front. The materials required are far from cheap, being largely made from Quartz, Concrete, and Granite as well as the cheaper Stone and Sandstone blocks - but the results are exquisite.
Folli is back with an incredibly comprehensive 90 minute video showing you how to put together a fabulously intricate house inspired by Japanese architecture. Prismarine blocks are used liberally to create the roofing, and provides a striking contrast against the dark wooden walls.
Here's another beautiful modern house design by YouTuber OSHACRA Though the primary materials are quartz and concrete, they've also made great, creative use of dark oak wood, fences, and a layer of grass on the rooftops to add tonnes of depth and character to the build.
If you want your first survival home to have more of a cabin-y vibe, then YouTuber WiederDude has put together a quaint and compact starter house made from oak and birch wood. It's amazing how powerful the simple fence can be in elevating an otherwise very straightforward home, isn't it?
Grandeur and scale isn't for everyone, and YouTuber Goldrobin's Hobbit Hole house is certainly a good shout for players who want a compact starter home where everything is in reach without having to move much at all. For full effect you'll need to find a good forest-y hill for the Hobbit Hole to poke out from, of course.
Sometimes all that's needed to make a house look great is a good unified colour scheme. The above modern home was built by YouTuber Kam The Builder, and features carpeted floors, and open-plan kitchen and dining area, and a whole heck of a lot of pink both inside and out.
Let's face it, pink is hot. Particularly when combined with white, glass, and wood in the corerct quantities. This take on the pink modern house comes to you from YouTuber GAMES, and their tutorial video shows you exactly how to put together every block of this lovely little home, from the raised plant area out front to the impressively designed living room and bathroom found inside.
Zaypixel's lovely little starter house is made from nothing more complicated than Spruce and Oak wood, Glass, and a little bit of Deepslate (which you can easily substitute for Cobblestone if you'd prefer). The finished product is an easy to build but very idyllic looking house that would look perfect in the middle of a lush flower forest.
In stark contrast to the previous compact house, next up is this towering home built by JUNS MAB Architecture. This home looks like it was built to be the ultimate survival base of operations, with multiple floors for all your needs, and carefully crafted and bordered windows that ensures the build is a striking image on the horizon for any player who approaches your home.
This beautifully designed farmhouse, once again built by JUNS MAB Architecture, is a cut above most other Minecraft farmhouses thanks to the wonderful modular raised design of its little square farms. There's also plenty of room inside the foundations for later expansion if you so wish. It could even house a mineshaft all the way down to diamond level if you so desire.
Zaypixel is great at creating really idyllic-looking scenes, and this large two-story farmhouse is now exception. A combination of White Wool, Wood, and Stone Bricks makes this a fairly simple build in terms of materials, but details such as the vines growing up the sides, the flowers around the base of the house, and the lanterns hanging from the edges of the roof all turn this farmhouse into one most definitely worth living in.
This lovely brick-roofed fairytale cottage from BigTonyMC really feels like it could house either the innocent protagonist or the seemingly pleasant but actually pure evil villain that you're likely to find in most fables. This build gives off effortless charm, and is the perfect inspiration for anyone who wants to give their home more of a fairytale feel.
With this next house, YouTuber YalChu used Nether Brick to create a lovely and eye-catching red roofed home that is bound to provide great inspiration for lots of aspiring builders. It's a compact creation surrounded by a stone and iron bar fence, with a small but mighty garden and a compact but stylish interior.
For those of you who want to set up base surrounded by bark and leaves, this large chunky treehouse from YouTuber Shock Frost is a great starting point for inspiration. This build requires you to create not only the house but also the tree from scratch, but the result is a nicely structured and aesthetically pleasing home with plenty of space inside for all your needs.
DiddiHD has put together another treehouse build, this one even larger and located in the middle of a jungle. It's much more sporadic with the placement of its living areas, which gives it a really nice organic look, as though the house has grown over time along with the tree.
Another creative house built by DiddiHD, this one flies the infamous black and white skull and crossbones of piracy. This pirate base is made almost entirely from various kinds of wood, but the intricacy of its layout and structure provides a lot of hidden depth and complexity.
Transitioning from wizardry to witchcraft, YouTuber PlatinumThief has put together a squat and wonderfully creepy-looking witch house for players who want to embrace their inner occultist and do a spot of Minecraft potion brewing. The prismarine roof may give survival players a bit of trouble, but otherwise this is a very easily imitable house for players looking to start their own Minecraft adventure in a new world. Just make sure you find a nice swamp in which to set up shop.
Japanese-style architecture is so wonderfully distinctive and appealing to the eye, it's no wonder so many players want to live in these sorts of houses. YouTuber BlueBits has you covered with a lovely spacrious Japanese-style home which makes use of a variety of interesting block types and doodads, from acacia slabs to dark oak signs, to create a very detailed and good-looking house for any Minecraft player to emulate.
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