I just about wore out the Lego Idea book from the 90’s:
With three of us kids, we had enough legos to make absolutely epic castles with full baileys and keeps and forests. Our inspiration mostly came from our neighbor, who was somewhat older than we were and had a custom castle that was much larger and more impressive than we could achieve. It was he who gave us the idea book. He had more of the 80’s sets as well, and a lot of space sets.
We mostly got the later stuff such as the Dragon Masters and Black Knights sets, and Space Police.
This castle was the best:
LEGO was my life.