Designs are the critical element of what makes the house around us so critical to our happiness and contentment. If the house is crowded with lots of walls, large patterned wall paper and clashing flooring is not relaxing or in any way comforting. We look to our homes to be the biggest challenge to our need to have light, warmth and dryness. Let’s compare a modern house with it’s stairs, kitchens, bathrooms and storage with a castle. The huge size of a castle is impossible to imagine – massive in size and with only a fire in the centre of the great all. Of course, the folk that lived in those days did’t know they were cold until other folks mentioned it. To them, in winter one wore shawls and other loose garments that could be wrapped around them. Animal furs were used to keep the body warm. The castle was not as spacious insdide as it looks outside. Each upper chamber would have had smaller ante rooms attached for the actual bed etc.