A barn is a luxury we construct to house, feed, and help meet our horses’ basic needs and our desires. It can be as modest as a pole barn with temporary stalls, or as extravagant as a horse chateau with climate control and automatic everything. If economics were not a factor, what indulgences would you choose to enhance your horse’s stabling experience and add a level of safety and convenience?

Here are some amenities real owners have put on their barn wish lists, plus my input as a horse owner with more than 30 years in the commercial and equine construction industries.