Dunno about the price, but there’s a guy just outside of Nashville who has a keep that he’s built and how he pays for it is by having a Rennfest there once a year.
Not sure. You’d have to take into consideration the cost of the land too, unless you already had that. Plus, cost of labour and any plans that needed to be drawn up, presuming you couldn’t do that yourself.
Dunno the square footage, but its a pretty good sized place. Here’s a link to the guy’s site. If its not on there (I don’t have time to poke around on it looking for the info), it does have contact info, so you could ask him directly. (I’ve met him before, he’s a nice guy, and he’ll talk your ear off about the place if you let him.)
There is a fellow out here in Sac that has built a decent size fortress from wood scraps. We have an SCA war out there once a year or so.
Granted, his keep is nowhere near the size of the thing you want to make, but keep us updated. I would love something like that. Hell, make it big enough and I’d live in the darn thing. That would rule.
There probably won’t be much to keep you posted on. I’m still in California. While I do have some money in the bank, I still need to relocate to NW Washington and get a job. (Not necessarily in that order.)
Housing up there varies. A friend bought a 3-BR house in Birch Bay for $60,000. 2-BR houses in Bellingham seem to be around $70,000 or more. I thought that instead of buying a boring house there, I’d go out of town a bit and buy some land. There are some Storybook style houses not too far from me, and I pass by a couple whenever I go to the cinema. It occured to me that maybe I could build a Storybook style house, then I thought it might be fun to build a castle.
Just trying to think of nifty housing when I finally do relocate.