Thread: Major Castle Must VIEW PICS!!!!

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Hi guys,
I was traveling into IL and I saw this many years ago and this is what it looked like last weekend and it looks bigger and almost done. I heard it was a persons house then sold as Bed & Breakfast but it was not open and no trespassing signs were up.

This would be a SWEET HH







WOW is all I can say
-PB

Are you kidding me?

Well, it would make the most killer building for a pro haunted house.

great setting for vampire gothic party!

That is probably the sweetest house I've ever seen!

ohhh, just imagine owning and living in that. or knowing the family that does own it and going to a halloween party or masqarade ball there..heavenly
would love to know the history on the place

In the past Ive come across a couple builders and gained a little insight to building something like this. The builders wanted millions of dollars and said minimum 2 years for the smallest home, but I think the idea could be adapted.

Found an interesting news article before about a man who built these facades onto his "normal" home, complete with the ramparts and mini towers. His neighbors keep trying to get him in trouble because they live in one of those yuppy type hoods, the artsy fartsy kinds but they dont want this there, lol.

Anyways, last I checked he was able to keep his castle, but it got me thinking. Of course who wouldnt really want something like this but alot of us fear if not done right we will never sell the place if we had to move, haha. Now the pic shown above is probably going to be a beautiful mansion inside so it will be attractive, it has tons of land, so no tiny lot sizes for people to get upset about.

This might work in a couple ways. 1.) you have alot of land and build how I explain, no one "should" complain. or 2.) make very well sure you have codes and papers, and checked with your city regulators on what you can and cant do in your burb home.

Assuming you are OK with something above, go onto making your castle dreams come true! :3 Again, this is the insight to the expensive castle builders and adapting to cheap and faster methods. It kinda looks like this was happening for the base of the castle in the pic above too.

You have a ready made house in your burb or countryside or you build your own "normal" house. You can install everything you would need, plumbing, a/c, all the comforts of living. Now, build your ramparts and exterior walls with any number of bases. I initially though to make out of wood sheets, or perhaps the same concrete type boards for bathrooms. I thought either would work because you can cut these to shape and attach to one another. The bathroom boards might hold up to water abuse and wind better as they have concrete in them.

Once you have your outer shell made, you dont need to insulate the outer wall to the inner like those expensive builders want to do, because you have all that built in your "normal" house design already.

Theres a technique for making "stones" or "rocks" onto your boards with a template concrete for outdoor abuses. Or already made siding pieces in too many to list variety's all over the web, more pricey than making your own "stones" but it will be the fastest thing to do and easiest on your back, lol.

examples of the siding-
http://www.home-improvement-time.com...-free-samples/
http://www.builddirect.com/Faux-Ston..._10057779.aspx

A lady who makes the templates and has a tuorial- can use concrete for these ( I want to use these for my indoor areas or wall panels for a haunt)- http://www.victorialarsen.com/Techni...Stone_Wall.htm

Personally, Im loving the template idea, because it will look less uniform and I can have it in any color I choose. Its also the cheapest method.

Because of the template idea, it makes me think to put a few things in different order. Someone on here uses sketchup for his haunted shack. So if I could figure out dimensions in advance like this for my castle walls, I could cut out the pieces according to the blueprint.

I know nothing of sketchup and its capabilities, but I think it gives something like that, correct me on this please.

So I have my cut out pieces and with my stone template I apply the concrete to a flat surface and built it up to 2 layers, just enough for some dimension. Brush a little color between the spaces in the stones and wala!

I then go find some man mucles and get help attaching these pieces together according to my sketchup design. These pieces "could" be taken down, in the case you may need to sell the house or something. You can bring these to your next home and use them as needed.

I want to look for a mixture to make the "stones" lighter, as the base boards will be super heavy as it is, just need to make sur that it can withstand water, and wont melt, lol.

I might have hijacked the thread with my crazy scheme for building our own castles, but I, /points at OP, blame that person :P hehe

Very cool I'm with those who think that house would make for a great setting for a masquerade/Halloween party.

try googling sorg mansion, this place is wild looking ! was selling for 750k now down to 499k,,, if built today would cost like 25 mil I believe.

theres a heating bill i don't want...
only 499k eh ? i believe i'll take 3 of them thanks
cool place tho , would love to have a place like that

wow, propboy, that is some amazing house/castle- what a great place to haunt!
SpookyJ, I love that house too, how old is it? in our town we have a reas called Heritage Hill- that has a lot of cool old house like that!! should try to see if I can get some pics sometime