Best way to create a house

[3DMechDesigner]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to create a complex house, but I have a question:

1. Should I first design the exterior of the house (Walls, Floors, Roof, Windows, Doors etc) and then the interior (Add walls inside the house to make Rooms, add Furniture etc) or the opposite:

    a) In case I want to create a simple building (e.g. a small house with 1 floor).

    b) In case I want to create a complex house (e.g. a large house, such as a mansion that has many floors and much detail on walls, floors, roof, etc.

Thanks in advance

[paulneale]

Have a look at the walls primitive and check out the doors and windows as well. They will automatically boolean out holes in the walls when they are linked to them. 

[luxxeon · Accepted solution]

Also, there are ways to model architecture more traditionally, with Edit Poly tools.  Have a look at this video (part of a series), illustrating some techniques in 3dsmax for modeling the exterior of a house with standard polygon operations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjmFlwzEOBs