Lady,

The “barn” is a two-car garage with additional storage both next to where the cars go, plus upstairs on the second floor. We don’t intend to use it as a garage. It’ll be for storage. Finally we’ll have no house painting ladders or scaffolding piled up somewhere in our yard!

Since we converted our attached two-car garage into a physical therapy room with a swim spa pool, we figured that adding a two-car garage to the property will increase its value. Plus we are going to put solar on the south-facing side of the roof, which will help heat our hot water and the water in the swim spa. These days our electric bill is out of this world, and we really could use some relief from that.

To me the coolest part is that we’re going to have a weathervaine on top of the cupola (that thingie on the roof).