Medieval Market Village Red House

[z_zadar]

I've seen few ideas for Medieval Market Village houses, but never something that just had to be there, historically (not morally) speaking. So, here it is. Medieval Market Village Red House.

Compared to other MMV houses, it's much bigger, but surely it was the biggest building in village. Market village, with lots of peasants, soldiers and merchants passing by, there was much work for Red House.

For photos of interior and other angles, visit MOC pages:

http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/139217

Thanks for your comments!

[Dadster]

I like the design, but personally feel as if its too much red...stick with black roofing.

[CDC]

Great idea and nice MOC

[Sandy]

A very nice idea, and it looks impressive. You've kept true to the style of the MMV houses. It's funny how brothels are so popular as MOCs, or at least it seems so.

The interior looks great and detailed, and the minifigs are very fitting, too.

There are some things I would work on if I were you, though. First of all, the roof should really be black instead of red, and the chimney looks a bit too large, almost like a side-tower or something like that. The grey walls in the bottom floor look a bit barren, too, and I think you should replace the large holes with windows or something like that.

But well done, otherwise!

[z_zadar]

Thanks for your comment, but red roof is result of having too many red slopes, and not so much black slopes. Also, both MMV houses has black roof, so I thought diversity would look nice.

Few photos showing the house in the village. The photos are part of the LEGO comic story that will soon be published at storyatures.lotrab.com

[Sir Dillon]

The structure looks good, but I agree that the abundance of red feels overbearing. I also don't care for the use of round elements in the walls that aren't part of the timber framing.

If you only have red roof pieces to work with, perhaps you could switch the rest of the red to a different colour? Red can look good as roofing, but it doesn't work so well when the building is red too.

[z_zadar]

Yes, you are right about the color scheme, of course, red on red is not the besi solution, altrought I was trying to make a red house, that is deliberately very red, to point out the purpose of the house itself.

But, I also must say that those classical references where wooden pieces must be brown, and stone pieces gray - are beginning to be quite a cliche. I mean, if it's normal to paint your walls into light blue or tan, why is it not ok to paint wooden parts of building into some color? Wood do needs to be painted, to get preserved better, in the real world it's totally common process.

So, those round parts really could be timber framing, but painted into red and black.

Ok, I'm trying to defend my style here, but I do agree it's not the best stlye ;) So I don't really have some strong arguments. Mostly because, I also like it to be brown. But I'm merely trying to give another point of view.

Thanks for your comments.

[Dadster]

The water well in the middle of town is nicely done!