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Topic: Ideas please
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SweetMedieval
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posted 02-20-2002 12:19 AM
  
I would like to transform a bedroom in my home to a Medieval style. But where do I begin? I have four walls, and a hardwood floor.  2 Large windows. The ceiling is about 12 feet high. Walls are painted right now an off peach.
I have an black iron bed, and several miscellanous items related to that time period, such as old lanterns, small swords, medieval prints by Edmund Leighton. Any suggestions or inspiration would be appreciated. ~Denise------------------
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Peter Esser
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posted 02-20-2002 03:25 AM
My first suggestion is to remove the central heating and the electricity.Perhaps you could replace the windows by wodden shutters. And a chamber pot could do a good job, too. This book seems to supply serious information about what life was looking like in medieval castles. Does anybody know it?
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/006090674X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg [This message has been edited by Peter Esser (edited 02-20-2002).] |
Erik Schmidt
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posted 02-20-2002 05:12 AM
The hardwood floor is a good start.
Wooden shutters sound about right. Throw out your bed, and if you absolutely must, replace it with a short wooden one, otherwise sleep on the floor.
Cover your walls in frescos, showing religious scenes, hunting scenes, legends and great battles as well as scenes of courtly love. Don't be shy to use relatively bright colours, but stay away from hot pink and purple.
Add false beams to your ceiling or wooden panelling of a repeated pattern making use of small pieces of timber. Decorate with painted leaf designs and the like. Or better still, build a vaulted ceiling underneath the existing one and paint with off white.
Replace your door with either no door or a heavy wooden one made of vertical slats of wood. Don't forget to take out the door frame and attach your new door directly to the wall with hefty iron hinges hung on heavy spikes driven into the wall.The alternative is to just hang pictures of castles on the walls.
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Peter Esser
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posted 02-20-2002 08:41 AM
But if, in the end, your bedroom looks like this one –
http://www.peteresser.de/bilder/schlaf.jpg – you probably made a mistake… I’m just kidding a little bit. The best is to get inspired by original architecture. The good fellow who built the bedroom above - humm - he overplayed it a little bit, I think. That‘s the danger. (Perhaps I can find some better examples … ) [This message has been edited by Peter Esser (edited 02-20-2002).] |
SweetMedieval
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posted 02-20-2002 11:40 AM
that picture peter, is one I think inside Ludwigs caslte in germany. He was definetly trying to achieve the grander scale. I shall take your ideas and Erik's into consideration. And when i am finished , this is a huge summer project, I shall share my pictures with you all. Denise------------------
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duncan
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posted 02-21-2002 09:37 AM
In the Fourm Building Your Own Castle are many topics dealing with this sort of construction problem.
Many good ideas are there and not knowing how far you wish to go or how much money you can spend its hard for me to give more concrete suggestions  {sorry bad pun} and
if you do have more of an idea as to what you are trying to achive tell us, i or someone might be able to help. |
Peter Esser
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posted 02-27-2002 01:05 PM
Hello SweetMedieval,I would like to invite you to a castle tour on "Burg Eltz", especially to the "Rübenach-House" (Burg Eltz was property of several families). The style of the bedroom is late Gothic, 15th century, and the picture small enough, but it might give you an idea of what a medieval bedroom looked like. (It’s in English, just click on "castle tour" and "Rübenach bedroom".) http://www.burg-eltz.de/e_index.html |
Lili
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posted 02-28-2002 04:37 AM
Wow! Just butting into the conversation but that was a fabulous tour of Burg Eltz - it sort of makes up for the time I dodged tree-felling which was happening in the surrounding forest, only to find the castle was closed!! The bedroom in Neuschwanstein is also spectacular. Am I right in recalling that the architecture above the bed is supposed to resemble buildings and when Ludwig slept the canopy was filled with holes that let in light to resemble stars? Not sure if I got that right b/c I remember going on a German tour and not sure if I got the translation right?? Luck with your bedroom. Sounds like a fabulous adventure!! Can't wait for the photos. |
SweetMedieval
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posted 02-28-2002 11:21 AM
I believe that this shall be the most difficult project I have ever encountered. I love the bedroom, in Neuschwanstein, especially the Murals painted on the wall. I could see my walls being divided by a chair rail just under a mural of a forest, or a fox hunt. And the Bed, well I am no wood carver. But I can substitute, by searching for an antique wooden bed, with intracate wood carvings, and maybe I can add ornate wooden designs to it. Drapery and fabrics. I am reasearcing color schemes of this period. Although I tend to run a favorite to Burgundy and wine colors. Progress is being made! Talk to you all later. ~Denise------------------
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Peter Esser
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posted 02-28-2002 11:53 AM
(Hmmm … I think Ludwig’s bed is anything, but not medieval. Surely it is left to your personal taste … but in Neuschwanstein I got the distinct feeling that I wouldn’t stay in these rooms longer than necessary. It is the right place if you really want to be unhappy … every inch covered with oil paintings of minor quality – not with the great simplicity of real medieval art …This bed from 1405 is in Kreuzstein near Vienna … easier to build I suppose.
http://www.peteresser.de/burgen/bett.jpg |
Lili
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posted 03-01-2002 08:24 PM
I'd have to agree with you Peter. Although I was inspired by the romanticised 'look' on the outside, Neuschwanstein on the inside felt far too ostentatious. I know the debate over Neuschwanstein is a hot one especially here on Castle Quest. To add to the debate I must say I prefer the mystery and history of 'true' castles. Just my opinion. |
levanne
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posted 03-03-2002 05:34 PM
For a castle that is lived in today but has many features from medieval times try the website www.castlelevan.com where you will se a 13th c castle which was renovated in the 1980s and is decorated and furnished with many elements of castles of that time. Levanne |
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