my dream house

[Pallantides]

[Osweo]

Nice, but learn from your history; one long series of halls besieged and burnt, their owners usually trapped within!

Give me practicality in the form of a Northern English bastle;

[Pallantides]

Nice, but learn from your history; one long series of halls besieged and burnt, their owners usually trapped within!

My brother always say that if we lived back in those days ,that would be me and my fathers fate, but I'd make sure my brother fell of the horse while out hunting before that would happen.


"He fell of the horse and broke his neck in the fall!"
"Why does he have an arrow in his chest?"
"Eh I had to see if he was truly dead!"

[Psychonaut]

Too many doors, Os. Something like this would be eminently more defensible:

[Osweo]

Too many doors, Os. Something like this would be eminently more defensible:

Damn it, Psy, you made me search!

Ahem;
Vrsac tower - in the Banat, Northern Serbia

The tower is a remnant of the medieval Vršac fortress. There are two theories about the origin of this fortress. According to the Turkish traveler, Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682, the fortress was built by the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. Historians consider that Branković built the fortress after the fall of Smederevo in 1439. [1] In its construction the fortress had some architectural elements similar to those in the fortress of Smederevo and the fortress around the Manasija monastery.

Ah, but I'm not Despot of Srbija, nor am I ever likely to achieve that position! I therefore opted for something a little more feasible, as bastles were built by men of more modest means.

[Eldritch]

Nice! Location?

[Moonbird]

Hmmm...might get a bit dark inside without any windows.

[Pallantides]

Nice! Location?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofotr

[Bloodeagle]

Would you add modern amenities to your chieftains house?
I would at the very least install a modern hearth to the house.
Ancient European hearth design was very primitive to say the least.

The fireplace and chimney as we now have them were unknown in ordinary dwelling houses until the sixteenth century and were only then beginning to be general. Some such fireplaces were only in the greater castles and palaces, and even in some of these buildings still existing, the ancient fireplace, as at Penshurst, remains in the middle of the floor of the great hall, with its heavy iron coupled andirons to hold up the logs. The alternative to this was an iron brazier for burning charcoal or peat. The smoke found its way out as it could, usually through a hole in the roof or by interstices in thatch or tiling, or any openings as of doors or windows. The timbers of the roof became coated with soot, and in the case of a leaky roof of thatch the wet streamed down laden with black. Though the smoke of wood or peat is more tolerable than that of coal, yet the conditions of living must, to our modern ideas, have been full of discomfort. They were the same, in fact, differing only in degree, as those of the dwellers in the circular huts of the ancient Britons of which there are remains, for then also the hearth for the fire was in the centre and the sleeping places all round; the sleepers lying with their feet to the fire. Even in the great hall of the castle the arrangement was the same, of a central fire and a general sleeping place surrounding it.

[Treffie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofotr

I think Lofoten is worthy of some pics, don't you?





Awesome