Also near village

Make it out of TNT and have a iron door opened by a pressure plate

I'm not a noob. It will go boom. Also, I mainly use peaceful, unless I need blaze rods for potions.

O h o k

But blazes are ez to kill. I can pick off a few at a time, and I'm only using a full set of iron and a diamond sword.

usually Oak complements lighter color palletes. Try logs as the pillars and add plenty of torches to light up the room. You can make the house jut out from the basalt and add fences under to make it look like it's supported

Well, my current shelter is part of a little cave that has a small roofed pocket. Anything I can use for that?(Also, I have a s*it ton of cats, and 3 wolves.)

Try dig out the cave a little but not too industrial like you mined it. Make it big enough to support your little home. You can have either low light or lots of light. Anvil frame torches and pumpkins work for low light, Placing torches and lamps makes high light.

Cobble on ground looks messy. Cobble as fence or stairs looks better. Use oak mainly for buildings and roads. Cobblestone usually looks best as an outside trail

Maybe I could use the picked clean cave I discovered when strip mining...

Oh, I also forgot to mention jungle wood(i got some saplings in the starter chest)

Jungle wood? Try make a little shrine looking place with stairs.

They look neat and you can probably store a villager there. I also think you should make a big room with oak and fill it with your pets. They look better in Light rooms

Use melons? I forgot to mention that there are there are two villages nearby. The one that is less then a hundred blocks away(plains), and the one that takes about 45 seconds to get to(acacia, thus, it has melons)