Does it have modern heating/AC and proper windows?

If it doesn't you are wealthy enough to install it.

I think a library, like Belle in Beauty and the Beast. Great spaces...I don't do Olioboards but I hope people come up with some interesting ideas :)

Here's my castle bedroom...going for jewel tones and warmer colors to warm up the stone work. Warmed up the paint color some while leaving the texture as is. Darkened the wood flooring, adding warmth and texture with the sheepskin rug, wall tapestry and the cashmere throw. Gotta have a place to read or rest with my fainting couch, with another chair for entertaining with my carafe of brandy. I'd need 5 of the wall sconces so there'd be one flanking each window. Orchids of course, because they are my favorite flower. Practicality comes in with the wall mounted swing arm lamps inside the canopy and the armoire which houses my a/v equipment.

Hmmm...I guess others aren't as inspired by living in a castle as I thought. Epic fail. Oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Hopefully jlc will be back again with a more inspiring DAT for everyone.

It's not that. The only way to do it simply and succinctly is with Photoshop like you did and I don't know how to use it. But castle dreaming is on my mind

I am just a little strapped for time but I have been thinking about it.

But the forum has been a slow for weeks, and I think most of the people who used to participate in the DATs and other non-question and answer sorts of posts are mostly gone.

I don't have time at the moment to do DAT but I really enjoy doing them...They just take me so much time!

i haven't been participating meaningfully lately because 1. Many of the posts contain incomplete information upon which to offer an opinion and 2. I have been reminded yet again that negative opinions are not helpful. The result of that is for me to praise what I like and keep quiet about the rest. Not helpful, but then again not unhelpful, iykwim.

bossyvossy, I don't use photoshop...I do it all in keynote which is mac's version of powerpoint, but it can be done with word or pages or olioboard or a variety of ways to cut and paste pictures onto a page. Part of the fun of doing DAT is learning more about the software capabilities you may already have available to you. And it may help you put together a storyboard for your own room in the future.

I agree, kswl, it does take quite a bit of time to do.

Pal, you're right that it does seem especially slow around here, are least from some of the regulars....maybe it's just bad timing on my part.

I do have some RL decorating projects calling me anyway...I should spend more time at that...

In my short To Do list to learn

I have one started, but I will confess that I wasn't particularly excited about having inherited a castle. And I've been very busy.

I decided to go Venetian Palazzo style, where they fill it with contemporary furniture and let the building decay around it.

DeSede Neverending sofa DS-600 (each segment can be purchased separately)

Vintage Tulu rug

Ligne Rose Togo chairs and Ottoman

1970s Italian torchieres

Lacquered goat skin and stainless steel table in the manner of Karl Springer, 1970s.

I think putting furniture in a room like this could be gilding the lily, but you do need a place to sit.

Wow, pal....I was thinking about how interesting it would be to combine the modern with the very old...the contrast is eye popping! Thx!

Here's my attempt:

I showed this too my daughter, and she told me, "There's a room like that in the Secret of Moonacre." So we had to watch the movie, and there was, in fact, an almost identically shaped room with similar windows and a piano.

Very pretty...love the color scheme. Pretty neat about the movie and your daughter remembering it.

This must be the room....

Lisa, I'm pretty sure Photo #3 just has plaster walls that are in really bad shape. I think the blue bits are plaster, and the plaster is missing in most places. And there's a giant crack in the wall (not the plaster) on the left. It's not faux.

Annie, yes, that's the room.

And since I was on a roll, here's another. I had been thinking of doing something very contemporary and minimal, but then I ran across this griffin sofa on 1st Dibs:

So here's the room:

The 9 foot tall robot sculpture I picked because it is evocative of suits of armor. It is called "...he was turned into steel, in the great magnetic field..." by Brandon Vickerd.

cawaps, love it! That robot is fab!

Hahaha! I just noticed in the moonacre photo that if you ignore his boot, it looks like he's standing on little bent munchkin legs!

You can do this in Word? Hmmmm! Will give it a go. In the meantime Ill try to paint a picture with words - my fantasy castle would mostly retain its ruin-like appearance and I would select only a few rooms on the upper floors to make into a small, cozy, comfy, clean, dry and warm apartment for myself with the rest of it left as open, unheated and unenclosed space me and my cats and perhaps a few select friends could ramble around in. Maybe use other rooms as needed - performance or exhibit space? Guest lodging?

My apartment would be left kind of rustic with some nice solid antique furnishings more along lines of early 1900s Wm Morris and arts and crafts (oak furniture, tapestry wall hangings etc) - than actual medieval pieces. Maybe some elements of shabby chic - English style - but not overwhelmingly so - and a strictly early 1900s type kitchen.. My fantasy is partly based on book and film "I Capture the Castle" about a destitute artistic family that lived in a castle in the 1930s - anyone else see that or read the book when you were growing up?

Maybe this is your castle?

Here is my princess bedroom for my life in the castle :-)

jlc, how wonderful. Love the colors. Interesting that both you a cawaps chose the peach tones...really pops and warms up the place. I was thinking of draping the windows, but wasn't happy with it...but yours came out nice.

Keynote! so that's what the podium is on my toolbar. Yet another feature of my Mac that I haven't explored.

Thanks for pointing that out - I'll have to try playing with it.

maire-cate, when you look into editing images, look at "instant alpha" ... it's the tool that will delete the backgrounds from pictures so you can cut and paste just the item itself.

The morning room... a place to do correspondence...writing invitations to the fabulous balls...meet with visitors after breakfast...sit with a spot of tea and the a.m. newspaper....

Love the morning room! Although I would not choose the furniture in any other setting (too ornate for me) it suits the setting and the fabrics lighten the room. The mirror I would use in any setting! I think I'll have another cup of tea. Please ring the butler.

Yes, I like the contrast of the very feminine shapes and color with the hardness and masculinity of the architecture...

I don't know how old this castle is but they originally had very little furniture. The room with the table and benches is probably about right.

Yes, that's true pal, but we aren't designing for historical accuracy...we're designing to make it some place we'd like to live now.