ie. what does your house look like ,how many floors does it have, etc.

Here is a general layout I use, after this its all customizable these rooms all have benefits for being close to entrance.\

I just used failed paint so picture is crappy:

 

Here's my crude drawing.

 

 

It's got pretty much everything I need. All the stuff I use frequently is upstairs, and the less important stuff is downstairs. I am going to switch my study and combat room though, when I can stop being lazy about it ;P

 

Basically you want to have 5 things located near your portal:

1. Portal room (Probably 2 portal rooms so you can have all the teleports)

2. Chapel for restoring prayer

3. Menagerie for restoring summ points

4. Study for making teletabs

5. Quest hall with a glory on the wall for unlimited teleports

 

The rest of the design is up to you.

A tip is to put all non-essential rooms in your dungeon, so this way pretty much your entire house is open for PvP combat when you pull the lever. It's not useful, but it's fun when you have friends over.

Well I am not going to draw you one but the basic idea:

 

The house is a 5 x 3. The centerpiece is the portal. On each side of this I have a portal room. On the other sides I have a formal garden + dungeon entrance and the menagery. (bassicly the summon obelisk is right next to the portal.

 

On the side of the formal garden I have 2 study's meaning I can make all tablets. The throne room and in the corners a small room with some chairs and the costume room.

 

On the side of the menagery --> Chapel with guilded altar / A quest hall with glory

A workshop and kitchen ofcourse. They are critical. And I believe I have a dinner room there to. Great if you ever need some food, tough mostly used for the bell and the fact that I think a house requires it.

 

Above the quest hall I have a skill hall + 2 bedrooms, all upstairs ;) I have a secundairy skill hall near my costume room (ground floor) with a KBD head.

 

The dungeon is pretty much combat based. Balance beam / Combat ring / chapel (always have a cheap chapel in the dungeon) and an oubliette. 3 entrance points. 1 in Dungeon entrance, 1 from oubliette and the ohterfrom the quest hall. Also some corridors.