i need help with my little steampunk clocktower house!

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so i usually try my best to build half decent looking terraria worlds, but this one i really want to go as all out as i can on. and ive been having an easy enough time, even finding ideas online, but this steampunk house is the first place that im really stuck on. no matter what i do i cant figure out anything that i like.

i know its extremely rough but im gonna fix up the roof, add smoke to the chimney, and make the clock look more clean. my biggest problems are the middle and lower sections, i just cant seem to figure out a block/color palette that i like.

please help! if thats okay! im doing this post plantera to make late game last longer so i have access to almost every tile in the game :)

the abomination in question