In this guide i'll try to help you make an nice looking house a lá (my map de_ghosttown) I'll use custom textures
Step 1.
Make a "flat" brush and select a texture that you think would look nice on it and make it with the 16 x 16 grids 3 units high, and then press enter. After your "block" is done, you can put a nice wooden texture on the part that will be inside your house.
Step 2.
Now you'll have to make four one unit thick walls around your floor. Put a texture that fits the ground of the house and it would look somthing like this...
Step 3.
Now make four poles in a wooden texture to put in the end of the walls each one of them one unit thick and one unit wide. And make sure you don't make the walls go over the wooden "sticks" because then the house will couse extra unnecessary "lag". After you have putted the four sticks, you can make a one unit thick wooden brick to use as your roof.
Step 4.
Now make a cube over you house with the same textures as your walls. Then use the Vertex Tool to make the roof as a Wedge.
Step 5.
Make a one unit thick wooden/roof textures brush over half the wedge, then youse the Vertex Tool to make them the same shape as the wedge
Step 6.
Now you've your own little nice looking house, the only thing you got left is the decoration.. The decoreated house is another house. (a house from de_ghosttown)
