It looks like a wonderful well-built wooden barn, but there are a couple of things that don't look safe to me. Remember that I used to buy off-track Thoroughbreds. This is probably perfectly safe for the calmer Icelandics, but I'd make the walls higher and those vertical boards with the sort of picket type tops would be a recipe for disaster for some horses.
Our friends sold half of their ranch and built a new barn and riding ring on the other half. There were already two houses. They chose sort of a pre-fab metal barn and have had nothing but trouble with it. The ceiling is held up by aluminum struts which keep falling down into the stalls. So far, no horses have been hurt, but they've certainly been scared and bouncing off the walls. Their whole barn-building experience turned out to be a very negative one. I like the more traditional (if slower) wooden construction. Nancy
