prompter: Hey, I want to up my building skills in minecraft! Do you know simple tips and tricks on how to build better interiors? I am trying to build a modern penthouse.

assistant: Sure! I can help with that. There are a number of things to consider when trying to design a better interiors in Minecraft:

1) Look for reference images. Having examples can help with inspiration and drawing from the real world can give a more natural feeling to your projects. 
2) Use lighting to draw focus, add contrast, and create an atmosphere. Warm color lanterns can be used effectively to create a cosy relaxed feeling, while cooler colors create a more energetic effect. 
3) Use decorations and furniture to add more visual interest to the room. Blocks like trap doors, fence posts, and stairs can often be combined to create furniture. Flowers, leaf blocks, and vines can be used to introduce natural elements into the room, which is a key part of modern interior design. 
4) Consider your color scheme. To achieve a minimalist modern look, you should consider lighter muted colours with dark greys and black for contrast. Colors can be used create areas in the room and add visual interest. 
5) Plan where the view lines and focus of the room will be before you build. You should consider where your guests will enter the room from, and what they will see as they do. 

Ultimately how you design your house is up to you. Draw inspiration from both other minecraft builds and the real world, and adopt your favourite elements into your build.

assistant: A surprisingly effective way to build up your Minecraft building skills is to follow along with building tutorial videos you can easily find on sites such as YouTube. Simply getting yourself in the habit of following along with what they do, and actually doing it yourself allows you to gain a much greater intuitive understanding of how to improve your skills. Specifically, in your case looking up videos that focus on a modern building style can give great amounts of inspiration for what you are trying to do.

assistant: Building two thick walls can help improve interiors by allowing more flexibility with wall colours without modifying the exterior.

prompter: What would be an interesting design using this methodology?

assistant: A rougher looking outside made from bricks and a cleaner inside, perhaps with white or even more colorful walls.

prompter: Which wall colours should I use for my modern penthouse?

assistant: For a modern style house, some good combinations of blocks include:
- Quartz Blocks and Cyan Terracotta
- Quartz Blocks and stripped wood like Oak, Spruce and Birch
- Quartz Blocks and wood planks includnig Oak, Spruce and Birch

assistant: The colors you should use for you walls depend on the rest of the house. However, penthouses usually have a color scheme containing mostly white and light colors such as light brown. You may also use blocks with more intricate detailed such as stripped birch wood, which would fit well in a color palette of light colors.

assistant: Recently, traditional bright whites are being traded for more confident, statement-making palettes on siding, trim, and front doors. Think vibrant blues and greens, creamy neutrals, cheerful pastels, and even monochromatic schemes of charcoal and black.

assistant: a modern design generally includes white, can you be more specific about what you mean by modern?

prompter: I don't have enough space to build two blocks wide walls. Are there options that take less space but still look different from the outside?