Great pics, Sharon! I'd love to know more about the wine vat. Do the grapes ferment in the vat? Doesn't it get hot in the island sun? How often do they make a "batch" of wine? Do you know if any residents make their wine this way? Thanks! Teresa

I bought shelf stable milk, probably 2%, for our youngest daughter when we took her to France and it was fine. I tasted it before I gave it to her. She had no problem at all with it but mostly, if I recall, it was over cereal. We got it from little grocery stores. Definitely not powdered and reconstituted. Then when a DollarTree opened in our community a couple of years ago, I found Gossner Foods 2% UHT milk and tried it, for our grandson who visits. We are empty nesters and no longer buy fresh milk. It's a one quart carton. He drank it and had no negative comments. (He is kind of quiet as a teen, now, and doesn't comment a lot about food, except he requests kugel and challah!) He knows I keep a couple of quarts in the basement for him. I make sure to get if refrigerated for at least a day before a visit. Once in a while, I'll buy a half gallon or gallon for him and he takes home the rest, but it is nice to have milk for him. He is fussy, and a very sophisticated eater, and 15 years old. He eats all kinds of things from the sea and rarely has fast food. His mom is a fabulous Chinese (from Shanghai) cook. I am happy to find this apparently decent tasting milk which is shelf stable-and for a buck! In recent years, I have seen UHT milk in our local grocery, which is very upscale. Don't know the brand. I think it is a great idea and perfectly suited to camping.

Perhaps use the blue-grey of the door as the main color of the stable, and do the trim the same white as the house.

I like your vanity on the window wall too. The closet in the layout below has a different shape but it gives you the same amount of hanging space (10 ft). I have a friend who has a similar closet but 6'6" wide instead of 7'. It works. She has 2 sliding pocket doors on each side of her closet to close it if she wants to. If you were to do something like that, I would recommend that you make your wall thicker to be able to mount a towel bar on the left side without interfering with the pocket door. I suggests that the linen cabinet is accessed on the shorter side (opposite to the vanity). The reason is that the side of the linen gives you a place to mount a towel bar.