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Perhaps some carpets hung on the walls, but

oilets, or garderobes as they were called, usually were situated so that they opened over the moat.

An awful lot of life in a castle went on in the great hall. There was a fire and shelter in the hall. People ate and slept in the great hall. Very often, certainly in smaller castles, before sophisticated domestic arrangements evolved, you would have found the lord and lady sleeping at one end of the great hall in a sort of screened-off area. So medieval men and women didn't have much privacy.

medieval men didn't really bathe terribly often. People might have wiped their hands and faces from time to time.

lords and ladies would have been slightly cleaner and sweeter-smelling than most of their subordinates.

If you were a lord or lady, if you were the constable or the constable's lady, then you would have had a private room.

Very often in the great hall there was a central fire. Later on there were proper fireplaces, but a central fire with a hole in the roof was standard.

He had a number of people who worked beneath him. There was the garrison, whose members vary in status, including knights, men-at-arms, archers, and engineers. You also had grooms, watchmen, porters, cooks, and scullions, who did all the washing up in the kitchen.

So the constable was the person whose job it was to look after the castle in the lord's absence.