A Florida man who was impressed by his Disney-loving granddaughter to construct his personal citadel is now promoting the half-finished storybook residence for $1.2 million.
The 10,000-square-feet, three-story citadel has hit the market in South Daytona, and encompasses a grand archway, turrets, a two-story library, and even a dungeon within the basement.
However regardless of the staggering asking value, the six-bedroom, five-bathroom residence is not really completed, which means a possible purchaser would have a fairy story fixer-upper on their palms.

A Florida man who was impressed by his Disney-loving granddaughter to construct his personal citadel is now promoting the half-finished storybook residence for $1.2 million

The ten,000-square-feet, three-story citadel has hit the market in South Daytona, and encompasses a grand archway, turrets, a two-story library, and even a dungeon within the basement

However regardless of the staggering asking value, the six-bedroom, five-bathroom residence is not really completed, which means a possible purchaser would have a fairy story fixer-upper on their palms

It options an elaborate stone archway entrance with two fountains of a mermaid and merman, plus a number of under-the-sea mosaics arrange behind them.

A big stone wall separates the citadel from the highway, and behind it’s a home with a fortress and turrets on prime

Listed on Zillow by Adams, Cameron & Co., Realtors, the house appears prefer it was ripped proper out of Disney World and plopped down 70 miles away on the seashore

The citadel is the work of Ricky Ginder, who bought the land in 2013 for $163,000
Listed on Zillow by Adams, Cameron & Co., Realtors, the house appears prefer it was ripped proper out of Disney World and plopped down 70 miles away on the seashore.
It options an elaborate stone archway entrance with two fountains of a mermaid and merman, plus a number of under-the-sea mosaics arrange behind them.
A big stone wall separates the citadel from the highway, and behind it’s a home with a fortress and turrets on prime.
The house additionally features a 4 to eight-car storage, a workshop, a three-story elevator shaft, a grand goyer, and five-foot-wide grand staircases.
There’s a giant library straight out of Magnificence and the Beast with an 18-foot ceiling, in addition to a dungeon for storage downstairs.
Photographs present a staircase from the storage guarded by nutcracker statues, patios, and a big open floorplan.

Photographs present a staircase from the storage guarded by nutcracker statues, patios, and a big open floorplan

Whereas the house is marketed to have six bedrooms and 5 loos, the inside is unfinished, with no completed partitions, ceilings, or flooring.

Furnishings has been arrange in a few of the unifinished rooms, exhibiting a style for an old school asthetic

The realtor explains: ‘This venture is 5 years within the making and as time adjustments, so do desires and priorities. About 50-60% full, this palace has a lot alternative and potential’

The realtor provides: ‘Let your creativeness run wild and end the dream’

Grinder hoped to have his household — together with his spouse, two grownup daughters, and three grandchildren — moved in by the top of 2018


It was his granddauchter, Ericka, who gave him the thought for constructing a citadel within the first place

Grider at present lives in close by Port Orange, however in 2017 started constructing the citadel of his desires, designing it himself and enlisting associates to assist him construct it
However whereas the house is marketed to have six bedrooms and 5 loos, the inside is unfinished, with no completed partitions, ceilings, or flooring..
The realtor explains: ‘This venture is 5 years within the making and as time adjustments, so do desires and priorities. About 50-60% full, this palace has a lot alternative and potential.
‘Let your creativeness run wild and end the dream,’ they add.
Based on Hometown Information Volusia, the citadel is the work of Ricky Ginder, who bought the land in 2013 for $163,000.
Grider at present lives in close by Port Orange, however in 2017 started constructing the citadel of his desires, designing it himself and enlisting associates to assist him construct it.
He hoped to have his household — together with his spouse, two grownup daughters, and three grandchildren — moved in by the top of 2018.

‘My granddaughter and I had been reducing the garden in the future and we at all times talked about what we wished to construct and she or he at all times stored saying she wished a citadel,’ he stated

‘She grew up going to Disney. I began researching it and taking a look at books and making an attempt to determine which type I wished to do,’ he stated

He stated he ‘selected the outdated English/Scottish look’ and set to work on the citadel

‘My grandson, Waylynn, goes to be the prince of the citadel the place Ericka goes to be the princess within the citadel and so they have labored right here. They like it,’ he stated

Sadly, plans appear to have modified, and in July he listed the home for $1,400,000. It has since comed right down to $1,195,000

Whereas many of the framework seems to be there, the skin wants extra work, too
It was his granddauchter, Ericka, who gave him the thought for constructing a citadel within the first place.
‘My granddaughter and I had been reducing the garden in the future and we at all times talked about what we wished to construct and she or he at all times stored saying she wished a citadel,’ he stated.
‘She grew up going to Disney. I began researching it and taking a look at books and making an attempt to determine which type I wished to do. So, we selected the outdated English/Scottish look.
‘My grandson, Waylynn, goes to be the prince of the citadel the place Ericka goes to be the princess within the citadel and so they have labored right here. They like it.’
‘It’s only a home and one thing I feel the household identify may have eternally. That’s the plan anyway,’ he added.
Sadly, plans appear to have modified, and in July he listed the home for $1,400,000. It has since comed right down to $1,195,000.

The house won’t solely want a sure kind of purchaser, however a variety of persistence to maintain constructing

There seems to be a guard home, identical to one which is perhaps outdoors an actual citadel

Not one of the rooms are completed and nonetheless want partitions, ceilings, and flooring, so there may be various constructing to be executed

The house additionally features a 4 to eight-car storage, a workshop, a three-story elevator shaft, a grand goyer, and five-foot-wide grand staircases

There’s a giant library straight out of Magnificence and the Beast with an 18-foot ceiling, in addition to a dungeon for storage downstairs