Welcome!

Welcome to a blog that is dedicated to the people that dream of living in their own honest-to-goodness castle. One of the first themes for the the reason this site came about was the simple reason that we live in an area of the country where house prices are outrageous, and even though we are homeowners, we have a desire to have a totally unique home that hopefully can be paid in full before we retire; it just happens that we'd like a castle!

This plays into the second part of the theme for this blog, in that we hope to feature owner built castles, or at least castles that had heavy input from owners along with some amount if direct involvement of the construction, this site by no means excludes castles that aren't built 100% by the onwner. These castles need not be massive 50-room luxury motte-and-bailey type castles, they could easily be a suburban home that has had a serious makeover.

The final theme for the material presented here will be the environment. I don't mean rants about tree-hugging and saving the whales (though those are honorable and necessary professions, just not the ranting bit..) but I do mean green construction and energy saving devices. This covers anything from thick-walled heavily insulated buildings (say, like...a castle?) to passive solar heat and hot water.

To sum up: Live in an affordable, energy efficient DIY castle.

I'll provide links to any castle sites on the web that I find, along with links to anyone who professes to build or provide services related to castlebuilding such as designers or engineers, and any suppliers of "castle-like" products such as leaded-glass, furnishings, or whatever.

I hope that anybody who happens across this blog will also submit any information they might find, such as products or services used, or castles they may have built as well. I also am willing to have a reciprocal link exchange upon request and agreement.