George Barnaby "castle", currently empty.

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Live like royalty for a night at one of these Scottish castle hotels and manor houses.

Castle Hill, Newport charisma design

In the midst of the forests of Normandy, France, Lillian Williams and her husband Ted found the chateau de Morsan. The chateau was built ca.1765 as a summerhouse, and at one point, it served as a hunting lodge. The exterior facade of the house reflected a French Rococo architectural style. Lillian and Ted loved the grand house, bought it, and started the restoration process, simultaneously trying to preserve the architectural integrity of the era. As for the interiors, the owners of the chateau were inspired by the novel Dangerous Liaisons, implementing the classic style of the period. Some of the furnishings, textiles, and colors at the chateau were of the Rococo period, but most were in the Neoclassical style that was popular under the reign of Louis XVI. French blues and greens in the entrance hall, notice the curved Rococo doors Neoclassical furniture with the simpler lines, and the fluted legs. The color yellow was popular during that period A chaise lounge against the pale and delicate color schemes The soft colors in Lillian's bedroom with mostly eighteen-century Swedish Gustavian furniture Another exquisite bedroom Chateau de Morsan was considered a wonderful presentation of the best of eighteenth-century French style. Photos 1, 4, 5,7 courtesy of Victoria Feb 1995, photography Toshi Otsuki Photo 2, 3,6 Classic Style, photography Tim Clinch

Union St., Concord, NC. This house used to be white.

Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as history, ceremonies, artistic sensibility, and many aspects of daily life.

Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England

There are SO MANY unique houses in Alabama!

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We take a look at the finest country houses, castles and estates for sale in Scotland.