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Do you dream of having your own house someday? Maybe you want a tropical treehouse, a cozy cottage, or an expansive mansion. These easy house drawing tutorials can help you visualize those plans.
Did you know? Architecture and engineering are sciences related to the building of houses. These professionals have to be good artists to draw diagrams of the structures they plan to build.
If you want to be an architect or an engineer when you grow up, bookmark this page because it is a great place to start!
Below, you'll find all the pieces you need to draw any type of house you can dream up. This list includes tutorials for drawing the exterior of houses, individual rooms, elements such as windows and doors, and even furniture.
You can get a head start by expanding your drawing skills today. Keep a portfolio of the houses you've drawn and designed. This experience can go a long way when you create your first architect resume!
You can use a pen or marker to draw each of the following, but we recommend using a pencil with a good eraser. Often, it helps to make guide lines that you erase later in the drawing process. You will learn more about this as you follow the step-by-step instructions below.
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Christmas House
This decorated house in a snowy landscape resembles a candy-coated gingerbread house. Curved lines add soft edges even to the walls of the house.
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House with a Swimming Pool
This suburban oasis has a swimming pool, lounge chairs, and satellite TV. There’s even a tall, cold glass of your favorite beverage sitting on the side table.
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Window
Windows add value to a property, including those in your drawings. You will use straight lines to draw the window frame and curved ones to craft the curtains.
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Simple House
If you are new to drawing buildings, this is the guide for you. This house appears flattened. It is made out of rectangles, triangles, and straight lines.
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Dog House
Your canine friend needs a home, too! This house is made of curved lines that detail the wooden boards of the walls and roof. It also has a dogbone-shaped sign hanging from the peak.
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Brick Wall
Many structures are made from brick. In this drawing, you can see the rectangle-shaped bricks peeking out from behind the crackling plaster and paint.
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Couch
You will use many curved lines to draw the comfy cushions and throw pillows on this sofa.
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Table
Tables are easy to draw because they consist only of straight lines and rectangular shapes. You can learn how to draw a set of chairs to go with it below.
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Igloo
Igloos are built out of rectangular bricks of ice and snow. You can see them in the picture. Igloos are only practical in cold areas, but they are efficient at keeping people warm!
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Cartoon House
This cozy cottage is fit for a family or a fairy. You can use straight and curved lines to draw the building.
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Fence
A house with a picket fence is part of the American dream. You can draw this privacy fence around any of the buildings on this list.
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Bed
A bed is easy to draw. It’s made up of rectangles with circles on top of the bedposts. Below, you can put your skills to work as you draw an entire bedroom.
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Chair
A chair is a very easy piece of furniture to design. This one consists of many curved rectangles.
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Room
Before you design a whole building, you can start with one room. You can sketch this bedroom with a window, bed, bookshelf, dresser, rug, and light fixtures.
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Toilet
Every building needs a bathroom - several in fact. You can make this necessary addition by drawing this toilet. It consists of curved lines.
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White House
The White House is one of the most famous structures in the United States. It isn’t hard to draw, however. This tutorial breaks down the architecture into triangles, rectangles, triangles, half-circles, and curved and straight lines.
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Broken Glass
Construction projects don’t always go as planned. You can record the aftermath with this broken glass drawing tutorial. As an added challenge, why not combine it with one of the buildings above?
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Log Cabin
A log cabin is a simple and classic type of house. Rectangles with rounded ends make up the stacked log walls. You will see the rectangle pattern of bricks on the chimney and “U” shaped shingles on the roof.
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Mansion
Would you like to live in a fabulous mansion someday? Design your dream home with the help of this tutorial. The house is easy to draw with rectangular walls, triangular roofs, and the curved lines of the arched windows, stairways, and fountain.
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Haunted House
What makes this house spooky? The leaning elements, glowing windows, a leafless tree, and the silhouette of a bat flying in front of a full moon, for starters.
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Door
The world of architecture and engineering can be an open door to you - and this open door is a good place to start. You will use rectangles, straight lines, and one small oval to complete this sketch.
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Earthquake
Look out! The cracks and bent lines of these houses and skyscrapers mean that they could collapse at any moment! Quickly follow the steps before the buildings fall apart!
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Easy 3D Buildings
Repair the buildings broken by the earthquake above by drawing these cool 3D structures. You will use simple geometric shapes to create the three-dimensional cube-like shapes.
