This house was just right for our family of 4 adults - not too big and not too small. The kitchen is excellent, the living room big and pleasant, and the screened-in porch wonderful. We ate all our meals outside on the porch, which is the location of the only sizable table in the house. We slept very well - it was very dark and quiet at night. The lake is lovely, but is a distance from the house down a long open lawn. Unfortunately, this summer has been very very rainy in the Adirondacks, and this turned large parts of the lawn into a sodden mess. This made the walk back and forth from the house to the lake a bit unpleasant, although it didn't keep us from enjoying swimming and kayaking. There were also a lot of mosquitos, presumably due to the completely soaked lawn. So between the rain, the mud, and the mosquitos, we didn't get to spend as much time outside as we would have liked. The neighbors (who were very nice and friendly) told us that this year has been unusually wet, so I suspect that we simply had bad luck. We did have a lovely campfire one night, and got in some good star gazing. The owners were very responsive when we had questions, and they had provisioned the house very well. We had a lovely time, despite the weather.