I am not an anti-builder but definitely a boring builder. My house always looks like this:
A two-floor building with crafting on groundfloor and bedroom above so that i can still get the comfort bonuses on the ground level. The building itself is usually very simple looking, the most I can be bothered to do is make some windows.

As for metal production I do make a small camp near the source just to house my forge inside and have some smelters outside because ♥♥♥♥ the cart and shipping metals. I mine until the night, run back to camp to chuck the ores in the smelter, take a portal to my surtling farm for the coal and then teleport to main base where I take care or farming. I never sleep.