The Castle Undercroft

Wiring is always the hardest part of construction for me. Finding the best place to run the wiring and remembering where you hid it afterward is one of the problems. (Which is why my RL swimming pool pump is not running. But that is another story ) :) 

I want to just build it and decorate not stress over wiring and how to get from one room to the other without creating an octopus of wires. The Hungerford Manor was much easier. Tape with embedded LEDs runs along the front of each room and is hidden in the front framing. That won't work for this project so it is slow going. A friend said a castle should be dark and dank. That would have been much easier but no one would see anything at all in these rooms so I will have to persevere.

I decided to create each room in the castle with a false ceiling so that the wiring could be easily hidden. Sounds like a good idea but the wires still have to get to the power source somewhere don't they? And the battery has to be accessible.

Well I'm getting there.
The castle perches on a cliff and the Undercroft is an assembly of 4 rooms set into the rock of the cliff; the staff dining room, the kitchen, the armoury and the wine cellar. I think the wine cellar used to be a dungeon but the present Lord of the Castle is a much nicer person than his forebearers.
The wine cellar is really close to the guard's dining room so I see that he installed a wrought iron gate to try to protect the wine. Or maybe it was there when the room was a dungeon. I'll have to ask him.

 The false ceilings help hide the wiring and I'm hoping that each floor of the castle will be removable but just in case that doesn't work I'm going to furnish each level as it goes up.

This will be the Armoury.

And the Kitchen

 The 2 views into the guard's dining room and the stairs.

 One room left to light and then I get to play with the furniture.
cheers
 Gayle