7. The Striped Tower Cabin
This one is for the builders who think a cabin should also be a landmark. Mine is a tall, narrow tower cabin — three stories of red and white stripes rising above the trees, with a little balcony on the top floor and a lantern at the very peak. The ground floor is the kitchen, the middle is a bedroom, and the top is a lookout with windows on all four sides. From up there, the whole peppermint village spreads out below like a map. It took a weekend to build, and I have never regretted a block of it.
