Blender Basics: Creating a Simple House Structure Step-by-Step

hello hello welcome to day three of from blender to 5m I am so excited to continue on with this series you guys

are amazing and I'm so happy that many of you are finding this series helpful today we are going to

dive in to creating our first basic structure for an actual

house I hope you are ready if you are let's go okay so now that we are back in

blender we are going to create our first scene I'm going to show first start off by showing you how to add objects meshes

to your scene viewport layout okay so basically in order to add a new mesh we've deleted the cube in our last

video um now we're going to bring something whether it's a cube or um a cylinder a sphere a shape we're

going to bring that mesh in and begin to create our scene so basically we're going to create just a

house uh on a street um surrounded by trees and a little bit of maybe cars lights things like that nothing too much

but yeah here we go okay so in order to add a scene a mesh to your scene when you have to click is shift and a and

order to bring up this menu right here so you want to go to mesh and we are going to add a plane but

before you do that let's just go over what we have here um and I'll just talk about what I know that I use most of the

time when creating an mllo I use the plane I use the cube I don't use the circle have not used The Circle

at all but I do I might start but I do use a plane a cube

um UV sphere and I use cylinder mainly I can see myself using the iGo sphere and the um Circle and The Cone maybe oh and

I also use the Taurus I did use a Taurus when I was creating um Flawless Salon but just you

know these are the things that this is what I use to create my mlos um and so let's just get started

okay so we're going to add a plane first um and with this plane this is

going to be our ground um what I would like like to do we're going to start off by

scaling this um ground I'm not going to I don't have a specific number in mine or a specific

size I just know that I need it to be bigger okay so I'm going to press scale and I'm going to scale on the

Y um maybe let's say about there okay and then I'm going to do press s again and we're going to scale on the x axis

and and let's just say about there um let's scale on a wi just a little bit

more all right okay um just make sure we are okay perfect I just want to get to

the front orthographic View and let's scale on the X a little bit more get closer to that square shape it doesn't

have to be perfect but um I just want to make sure it's big enough for us to create something I might end up going a

little bigger actually yeah let's just go bigger I'm not going to scale on X and Y I'm just going to go

bigger um but I did that so that you could um so that you

could I did that so that you could get practice scaling okay when I initially was scaling on the X and Y

um we're going to say that this is big enough okay um obviously this isn't size for a

video game or anything like that we are just practicing modeling what I want to do to this ground um is go what I'm

going to do is press tab well I like to press tab keyboard short shortcuts are your friend and blender however you

don't have to press tab if you maybe you forget that if you press tab it'll take us into edit mode see right here it

switch from object mode to edit mode um but you can also just go here to the drop down and select edit mode what I'm

going to going to do next is extrud I'm introducing something new to you that you haven't I haven't spoken about um

just yet and what we're going to do is extrude this plane up on the Z axis so that we can solidify the floor make it

actually um threedimensional okay so what we're going to do is press e to extrude and it's already it already

has it set up for the z-axis if you press e again um well there's actually no other way for this to go actually but

sometimes if you press e twice it'll allow you to extrude freely um but because there this is a

plane there is absolutely nowhere to go but up or down um I

should maybe like right there if You tab back into object mode you can see now we have uh flat surface that is more

than um a piece of paper it doesn't look like a piece of paper anymore if you want to um there is no set thickness

that you have to do this is strictly practice you guys and learning um all right so now that we have our ground let

us um we can do this two ways let us let's start with um bringing in another Mion

it's just going to be a cube um okay so what we're going to do is shift a we're in make sure you're in object

mode because um if you're in edit mode it won't add it separately it'll add it to this plane so if I go to edit mode

and I do shift a and I add a cube you notice that this plane here that it it doesn't say that anything was added um

so if we contr Z to get rid of that and we go into object mode we press shift a and then we add the cube then it it

populates here so it lets you know that you have a cube here if for any reason you are in edit

mode and um you add another mesh while in edit mode what you

can do um let's just bring this up for a second I'm going to press G and Z so I

can just bring it above the floor so that we can see the full cube um what you can do like say you want to separate

this and put it um in its own category um give it its own label

separated it from this plain mesh or what this is now a some sort of a cube if you want to separate it from this

what you can do is make sure you have all of have the entire Cube selected so if you hover over it um and you press L

it'll link and select every side of the cube for you um you can also just um select it and press shift and go

around until the full cube is selected um but to make things easy you can just hover over it and

press L this only works when you have added an an additional mesh to um your viewport and um when

um it's not necessarily something that you just pulled and disconnected from this object

right here it only works if you add a new mesh the pressing hovering over and press pressing

L um okay so back to what we were saying if you want to separate this if you

accidentally add it or if you get part in your creation and you decide hey I don't want this to be a part of this

object anymore I want it to have be its own separate object what you can do is um select the mesh that you want to

separate and and press p and it'll bring up another menu where it says separate and you can say

separate by selection and now it is separated so if you go back into object mode you have

two separate objects it's just still calling it plain one you can name it whatever you want it to

be okay I could have just deleted that um this in general that's what I'm trying

to do so that I can just get back to what we were just is doing you can say when you

um when we are deleting stuff um when you're deleting in edit mode you will see a lot more than what you see when

we're in object mode so if you press X and object mode all you see is delete and you only have the option to delete

to delete the full object but however when you're in edit mode and you have um something highlighted and you press X to

delete it brings up more things um you can say delete vertices delete edges faces and it will delete those um

according to what you have selected so just going to say delete faces okay so let's move

forward um the next thing that we we're going to just continue to make our continue to make our

house and the way we're going to do that is shift a we are going going to do it do it in object mode I just like to add

I try to add things in object mode unless it's specifically I need to add it in edit mode just to keep everything

clean and separated in the end you can um join everything if you want also um okay so let's just add a cube we're

going to rise it up um but what we're going to do is snap it to this surface

um so if we go up here there's a tool right here it's called our snap tool it's like

a it it functions like a magnet um if you turn it on right and then you press

G and hover over a surface well that's actually select face you have the snapping turned on

snapping tool turned on and then you come here to this drop down arrow and then you go down to select face okay and

if you press G and you hover over the face that you want it to snap to it'll snap to it so now it is

flesh with the floor okay and actually let's go I like to see it a lot brighter I went to

material mod um I guess I can go over that before we uh build this house little poly house

okay so right here I switched from um the shading viewport shading to the material view viewport material

so this one is it's like it doesn't it's just it's basically showing what you the meshes without any material on them so

they appear gray if you go to material there is no material texture to it but I just like it cuz it's a little bit

brighter um but you can use whichever one you want so you might see me switching in between these and this is

the render mode so when you when you're ready to maybe take a photo or render your creation you would put your lights

and you know set up your scene accordingly but we are here there's also wireframe mod in which will allow you to

see through objects and select a lot more more points or faces um that you possibly can't see um when you are in

this mode or this mode so if I I can literally select this whole thing just like that because I'm in this mode

okay so um let's go here I just want to be in this this so I can see

things all right make sure we on the front side let us construct this house out of this Cube

how do we do that uh I'm going to turn off snapping for

now um that we have our ways let's tab into edit mode I'm going to keep face select

mode on face select mode it allows you to select the faces individually where the edge mode allow you to select the

edges individually yeah and then you have vertex select mode which allows you to

select the vertices individually or group them together but let's just stick with the

face select for now um what we are going to do is place our house where do we want our house we can actually turn we

don't have to turn snapping back on we are going to move this Cube um around according

to excuse me um by use of the axis okay so let us select this Cube by

hovering over it and pressing L to link it so it grabs all of the faces and then we're going to press G and Y to move

along the Y AIS right so it's going to stay snapped to the floor but we're just going to move it back a

little um and then uh I think that is fine let us you know choose one of the

sides uh actually undo that if you know well I'll just show you both ways when we move things around in edit mode we

move them away from the object's point of origin does that make sense so when we

rotate if I would to rotate this this cube right now it would hold on it would rotate

around the object point to origin but it won't rotate if you notice that it's not rotating in place it's rotating around

this orange dot we don't want that especially when you start going to um map your M and then you you spawn it in

and you're like where is it because it's not in front not where you think it should be spawned because the point of

or origin is off you can reset it by right clicking on the cube or your mesh and then going to set origin and then

you can do origin to geometry and then it'll pull it back if we go back into oh we're in object mode already it'll start

to rotate around itself now um so if when you again if you're moving things is when you're in edit mode just keep

that in mind that you need to move your origin point back to the geometry the mesh so that when so that everything

rotates like it like it should everything scales like it should okay uh so but for

now we've already moved it so we can we can continue to expand this Cube while in edit mode we are going to select the

left side okay we can do this two ways I'm going to show you two ways to do this um scale

this how we want it so we're going to first start off by selecting the left side of the cube and what we're going to

do is press G we're not going to do like the traditional press s to scale we're just going to press G and then we're

going to press X to move along the X AIS so g x and then we're going to move or stretch it along on the

x-axis okay it's kind of big um I might end up making it a little smaller but let's go to the right side now and do

the same thing we're not looking for precision just we're just reshaping this press G and then X to move it along the

x-axis right like this don't look like a house it look like a Long Trailer okay it's it just bear with me

it's coming I promise you so we did the size now let let's do the front side of the house we going to do the same thing

well actually we're not going to do the same thing um what we're going to

do is just for you know learning purposes this is what we're going to

do um let's just link select the whole object by press hovering over and pressing L this time

we're going to use the scale tool to expand the house along the Y AIS so what I want you to do I'm again hover over it

over the object and press L to select all sides then I want you to press s but then after you press S I want you to

press Y and we're going to scale this along the Y AIS and boom was much faster right mhm I know I know I

know um so this house is going to have uh um two sides and this actually is going to end up coming over but what

we're going to do before we we can go on and do the top actually let's just select the top surface of the

house and you're going to press G and then Z to move along the the um z-axis and then just

raise the house up it's like right there okay and then what I want you to do is hover over this again and press L and

then we're going to duplicate it okay duplication is your friend we're going to duplicate it and we're also yes

we're going to duplicate it in edit mode just keep in mind when you are doing these things that you are doing it um

with a purpose um just know that if you duplicate in edit mode it's going to remain uh it within this Cube it won't

be separate it will remain in this Cube just like when you add a new mesh while in edit mode it will remain in with the

previous attached to the previous mesh that you were working on okay all right so let's duplicate this by pressing

shift and D at the same time it is there I haven't moved but it is there what we're going to do is move

along the Y AIS so before moving press Y and then move your mouse forward

okay so now you have two rectangles with this second rectangle selected what I want to do is rotate it 90° so we're

going to press R to rotate we're going to rotate along the Z axis so press Z to rotate along the z- axis and then type

90 and hit enter or you can click in on click on on the screen but I'm just going to hit enter just so I don't you

know do anything extra all right what I would like to do is now now select this side of the first mesh and

we're going to move it back in because you know I am just creating this as I'm making this video I didn't

know what kind of house I was going to make so click on the right side again we're just going to move this back in um

so you want what I want you to do is press G and we're going to move along the x axis so press X and just come back

into like right there right and then I want you to select this second rectangle and we're going to move it again so I

want you to press g y we're going to move along the Y AIS and we're just going to move it back um

let's go to the top top down view remember if you hold alt while you are panning it will snap

it um for you okay or you can press the hot keys not hot Keys the numpad to find the top down view okay so we're going to

do our best to just line it up G on the Y AIS doesn't have to be extreme extremely

perfect um but I am a perfectionist so let's let's do it okay so now we're going to move it along the x axis so

we're going to press G and x and we're going to move it to like right here all right uh it's not perfect

this house isn't perfect right now um if you come out of that view you will see that

um it's not uh there are walls here and this isn't the ideal house but we're not

going to worry about those extra walls is bother me is that we'll leave it it's not too

important um let us expand on this floor grow and we're just going to make it

bigger all right um let's go back actually let's go here

because yeah um let's go back to object mode and select our

object um where and let's just move it and place it how we might we might want it so just press L hover over press L

hover over this one also press L to select both at the same time and we are going to just move let's move along the

X for a second let's give us some space and then let's move along the Y I guess we can work with

that um all right so we're going to add go back to object mode so that we can wait before wait

hold up wait a minute that's that's at the origin again um I got to do it in object mode

actually so origin to Geometry all right so when you rotate it's rotating like it should all

right um let's go um so what we're going to do next why is this giving like it's not

out to this face hold on okay now it's up that was weird um let's just move this back again to where

we were gy GX sorry y'all what I it was like

under the ground I didn't want it to be on under the ground so I had to snap it back to the

surface um okay okay that is where supp the placement of our house

right we don't have a door we don't have any Windows um but let's create

[Music] those okay let's create a door what I need you to do is press shift

a um shift a and we're going to add a cube and it is back at our center of the at

the center of our world press gz to rise it up um let's scale it on the Y not the Y on the Z axis to just make it a little

taller like that right and then we're going to scale along the x axis just to make it a little

wider um and then we're going to scale hold on scale on the Y AIS to make it skinny don't have to be extremely

skinny um but let us snap to this face turn this turn that on we're going to snap it

to this space It should be up against the wall right at the same time we are going

to snap it to the floor and to the wall perfect um typically your door is not on the outside so let's turn that off I

just wanted to get it as close as possible we're going to move it it back press G and Y to keep it on the floor

and we'll just put it like right there all right so that's where our door is um again we are doing some very basic

things y'all uh typically when you create your door you want it to have a frame so let's create a frame so how do

we do that we add another mesh and what is it going to be a cube and then we're going to raise it up and then we're

going to scale it to make it beginning scale it again right um let's write scale it

along the Z axis that might be a little too big but it's okay I'm going to snap it we're going to

snap it here just to get it closer The Closer I Get to You More You Make Me Feel just know when

you're scaling in object mode it's scaling the whole thing and it's not scaling like according to like the

snapping it to the floor or anything like that just keep that in mind when you're

working I still have my snapping on [Music] so um because I have snapping on it just

allows me to do what I need to do there are different ways you can make this door and frame but we're going to do it

this way and then when we make the window I'll show you another another way that you can make a frame um without

having to like duplicate cuz we're about to duplicate this a couple of times let's scale this on the wi just um make

it bigger just so to go through um and then let's move it along the W hold on turn snapping off

move it along the W just a little bit doesn't have to be perfect what we're going to do is duplicate

this duplicate it shift d and then move it on the X and boom again does not have to be

perfect we're going to duplicate again shift d move it on the Z so like right there then we're going to rotate it

along the Y 90° press enter um we're going to scale along the X just to make it a smaller

then we're going to move it along the egg right and it's not big enough actually let's move it up a little along

the Z axis and then we're going to scale it along the X and there you

go there's your door frame very simple way to CL um create a door frame um let's add a door knob

shift a again and let's do where is it a UV sphere gz raise it up um this is going to be the knob of the

door of the door knob obviously let's scale it

um there's so many ways you can do this uh but I guess for the for sake of this let's

just do that that's so simple usually I'll put a a cylinder on the end of it let's do

let's put the cylinder on it so it'll actually look more like a door knob I shift

a a shift a and then cylinder uh g z to move it up right we're going to scale this

baby um we're going to scale along the Y okay that is not what I meant to do go into edit mode really

quickly um n no no no scale along the Z I'm like what the heck and then scale it to make it

smaller and we're going to rotate it on the x axis 90° Ro RX

990 enter and then just let's just come here it's still selected so when we get here

we can just snap it to um the wall the door so just press G and boom um let's move this out just wait hold on

let me turn off snapping G away move it out just a little bit we can make

this a little bigger I don't have to be super small but let me come out some well actually

that might be fine and then turn on snapping again and let just do G like just you can do it okay it doesn't want

to snap h want it so let's turn snapping off and let's just move it ourselves I just definitely freehanded

that so we can just be a little bit more precise G move it along the xaxis and there we have it um again it's

this is very basic primitive primitive things you can edit this and be more precise yourself if you would like but

I'm just showing you at my goal is to just show you what you can what is possible

um to do and blender so there's our door all right you all so that's going to wrap it up for today's video in our

next video we are going to move forward with making the windows um and after that we'll move

into creating the surrounding trees our Pathways and our street and our car bear with me you guys I know it might seem

like U we are moving at a slow pace um but I just I I have to make sure you hear me I have to make sure with all of

the questions that I get I have to make sure that I teach you everything that you need that way when we get to the

process of actually making the mllo you won't be lost and you won't be overwhelmed and you won't give up

because this is a tedious process it might not be hard to do once you learn it it's not difficult to understand but

it is tedious um cuz all we're doing right now is creating a basic structure like this

isn't like you look at flaw flawless Salon some you see Sleek edges and then you see some curves and some things that

might look a little bit more advanced and it's not necessarily more advanced it just takes time time to create time

to create so with that being said I hope you enjoyed today's video and I will see you

Monday bye