Our Son, the Turret Dweller

For their senior year at college, our son and five other guys are renting half a house and enjoying the transition toward the "real world", with rent and utility bills and the like.
Our boy organized the rental and has been living there for the summer thus far, doing some research for a professor in his chosen field of physics. So, he got first choice of bedrooms, and he went for the turret.

It's a fairly small, octagonal room, maybe ten or twelve feet across, but the ceiling, which is cone-shaped, goes up maybe 15 or 20 feet. Hard to tell. It is one cool crib.

Wikipedia says this about turrets:

In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification. As their military use faded, turrets were adopted for decorative purposes, as in the Scottish baronial style.

A turret might have a circular top with crenellations , a pointed roof, or any other kind of top. It might contain a staircase if it projects higher than the building. However, a turret might not be any higher than the rest of the building; in this case it is part of a room, that can be simply walked into.
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This turret can be just walked into from a hallway. I always wanted to walk into a turret, and this weekend while visiting him, we got the chance. Some shots of the humble abode:

Looking up at the formidable turret

And looking down from the turret window

An interior view - yes, it's paneled...

And a look up at the ceiling and ceiling fan, which is helpful in a turret in the summer time.

For more examples of turrets, click here