Creating a scratchbuilt fantasy house

My fantasy adventures with Five Leagues from the Borderlands will require some scenery and terrain, of which I currently have none. Some people choose to buy ready-made buildings or 3D-print them, but I won't. I'm always attracted to kitbashing and scratch-building, so I'll build my own scenery.

An essential piece of scenery in any fantasy town is a house, so I built one out of coffee stirrers, corrugated cardboard, plastic card, straws, and assorted bits and pieces. 

A fantasy town house. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I quite like how my house turned out. I can see a whole fantasy town populated by buildings in this style, maybe with an inn and a church. I would have to streamline my painting process though, because it took longer than I wished.

In case you're curious about intermediate steps, here are some of them. I built the house to be disassembled in two sections, the lower and upper floors, for easy storage. 

The house can be disassembled for storage.

I cut and glued each tile individually, making sure it wasn't perfect and some were purposefully misaligned; it looks better in the finished house. This was very time-consuming but I think it paid off.

The tiles were cut and glued individually.

I then coated everything with mod podge before painting, to strengthen the cardboard and prevent it from soaking up too much paint. Then I washed the whole thing with a home-made wash (based partly on Black Magic Craft's recipe, which uses Liquitex inks) and drybrushed to taste.

Aside from adding more buildings to my fantasy town, I'm now thinking of more ambitious future projects, like maybe a wizard's tower and some sections of a castle wall!