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🏰 Custom small-castle builder · Las Vegas
We build small castles. For real.
From a backyard playkeep for small knights to a livable keep you call home, MiniCastles designs, engineers and builds proper little castles – stone, turrets, drawbridges and all. Permitted, weatherproof, and yours down to the crest.
⚜ Six scales, fully custom · engineered to code · built to last
From $6,500
Playkeeps to live-in keeps
6 scales
Playkeep to manor
From a backyard play castle to a place you live
To code
Engineered to last
Real foundations, real materials, real masonry
Fully
Custom & heraldic
Your crest, your colors, your towers
Handled
Permits & engineering
We manage stamped drawings & permitting for livable builds
For play, for living, for legend
A castle at every scale.
Whether you want a drawbridge in the backyard or a turret over your kitchen, there’s a MiniCastle for it.
To play in
Playkeeps & follies
Backyard play castles and ornamental garden towers – the joyful, climbable kind, built to survive real childhoods.
Meet the small onesTo live in
Keeps & manors
Permitted, year-round dwellings – a castle ADU, a guest keep, or a small manor that happens to be home.
See the livable onesTo dream up
Bespoke commissions
A chapel, a taproom, a multi-tower folly – if you can sketch it, our masons can probably raise it.
Commission one
The collections
A few favorites to start.
Six collections, each fully customizable. Here are three of the most-requested – the rest are on the castles page.
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Livable 
Livable
Why MiniCastles
Storybook on the outside. Serious underneath.
The romance is the easy part. What sets us apart is the engineering, the masonry, and the paperwork we handle so you don’t.
Real stone character
Sculpted masonry and proper cladding that ages beautifully – not painted foam that crumbles in a season. It looks centuries old on day one.
Engineered & to code
Livable keeps and manors come with stamped, engineered drawings, and we manage the permit process with your local authority. (Play castles and follies are ornamental structures.)
Custom heraldry
Your family crest over the door, your colors on the pennants, your towers where you want them. No two MiniCastles are alike.
Built to weather decades
Real foundations, sealed envelopes and tested materials. We build for grandchildren, not for the next storm.
Turnkey, on your land
We build on-site or craft in our workshop and deliver. You get keys and a flag-raising; we handle the mud and the math.
Flexible payments
We work with you on a staged, milestone payment schedule across the collections – and can point you toward third-party financing options on request.
How we build
Four steps to your drawbridge.
Honest, organized, and surprisingly un-stressful for something with a moat.
The Audience
A friendly consult – your dream, your site, your budget. We sketch ideas and talk honestly about what’s possible.
The Blueprint
Design, 3D renders, engineering and permits. You approve every tower, window and weathervane before a stone is laid.
The Raising
Our masons and makers build – in our workshop, on your land, or both – with regular photo updates from the field.
The Crowning
We hand over the keys, raise your flag, and toast the new castle. Then we stay on call for the happily-ever-after.
Recently raised
Proof the moat is worth it.
Inside a Keep – stone, timber and a loft above.
Crenellations and a pennant, hand-built.
A Playkeep, under siege as intended.
A Keep at dusk, lights in the windows.
Every stone, set by hand.
A Folly, wearing summer roses.
Lords & ladies
What our castle-keepers say.
Our backyard Playkeep has not been empty since the day they raised the flag. Worth every penny and then some.
The Alvarez family
Playkeep · Summerlin
Playkeep · Summerlin
We use The Keep as our guest house, and visitors genuinely gasp when they pull up. It’s everyone’s favorite room on the property – and it isn’t even in the main house.
Dana & Rob M.
Keep / ADU · Henderson
Keep / ADU · Henderson
They handled the engineering, the permits, all of it. I sketched a tower on a napkin and they built it for real.
Priya N.
Bespoke folly · Las Vegas
Bespoke folly · Las Vegas