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# Windows
Generally one floor is about 3 meters high (3 blocks), and windows are about 2 meters high (2 blocks). According to street view, observe how many windows each floor and each wall has, then break them and leave openings for placing windows.
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Some floors are shorter, about 2.5 meters high (2.5 blocks), and windows are about 1.5 meters high (1.5 blocks) or so.
this**1.5-meter-high windows are comparatively**time-consuming, so strongly not recommended for newcomers.
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### **Basic matters**
In the BuildTheEarth project, we do not require members to build interior fittings. Therefore, when building windows, it is best to cover the back of the windows with dark-colored blocks. For glass, the most commonly used colors are cyan, light gray, and gray. Depending on the actual glass color, you can also use other colors like blue, black, brown, and green.
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However, if the glass is transparent in reality, you can use light gray glass to reproduce it, and**Never**use plain clear glass.
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### Covering blocks
For the blocks that cover the glass from behind, it is best to use dark-colored blocks. Gray blocks such as gray concrete, concrete powder, wool, and cyan terracotta are the most commonly used. If there are curtains or just a wall behind the window, you can use lighter-colored blocks, like white or light gray concrete, concrete powder, wool, clay, etc.
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We do not recommend using black concrete because it will overpower the color of the glass in front.
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You can also use light-emitting blocks; sea lanterns are recommended to simulate rooms/floors lit at night.
### **Window frames**
If you want to add detail to windows, you can use a variety of horizontal and vertical blocks in Minecraft to create window frames. Below we introduce some of the more commonly used ones.
> Vertical blocks include: walls, glass panes, end rods, iron bars, gates, fences, banners, doors, trapdoors, lightning rods
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> Horizontal blocks include: trapdoors, carpets, slabs, beds, pressure plates, snow
#### Trapdoors
You can use vertical or horizontal trapdoors to form a “T” or inverted “T” window frame.
#### End rod
Because end rods do not connect vertically to other blocks, they can create continuous rail-like details both horizontally and vertically.
#### Banners
Banners can be hung on walls or placed on the ground; combined with horizontal blocks they can form a “field” (grid) pattern.
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**Note that banners hung on walls occupy the upper half of the block, while banners placed on the ground occupy the lower half.**
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#### Fences
You can use fences to make a “キ”-shaped pattern, often used in Chinese-style windows.
Because nether brick fences do not connect with wooden fences, you can make the pattern shown on the left of the illustration.
\ On slanted walls, fences can be used to separate two windows.
#### Glass panes
> On vertical walls, glass panes can add layering to windows.
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> On slanted walls, dark glass panes (gray or black) can create a window effect in the corner of a block.
After choosing a window frame design, you can place it between the glass and the covering blocks to form a three-layer (or more) window structure.
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Windows can be placed in equal numbers along the building’s facade according to the real-world width.
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But I don't know their exact location, what should I do?
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/tpll can not only be used to locate corners of a building, you can also precisely find where a detail on the building is, for example the position of a chair placed on the roof.
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#### Window complete!
