The carriage house is lovely and absolutely functional...amazing storage and every thoughtful detail one could imagine. Spacious and scrupulously clean. I escaped to Denver from Houston for a week...to see friends, explore the city, and get in some mountain hiking. I walked everywhere...to downtown, to the Denver Art Museum, to the Clyfford Still Museum, to REI, to the 16th Street Mall, to the Contemporary Art Museum...and to the numerous parks including City Park (zoo, natural science museum...golf), which is only a few blocks away. There are dedicated bike and pedestrian pathways virtually everywhere and I also walked much of the Cherry Creek Trail, which goes through downtown. I did have a car and never had any issue finding street parking by the house (you get a residential parking tag)....used the car mainly to get into the Rockies and explore several nearby cities, including Golden, Boulder and Fort Collins. I loved Denver's walkability and greenness...and was unexpectedly impressed by the architecture...preserved old homes, the performance center, the cultural arts center, government buildings, the Still museum, the Michael Graves public library. There is an investment in beauty, but it's a real city too (e.g., I took a pictures of a moving van--"Showers for All" by the capital that provides showers and washer/dryers for the homeless...think Houston needs). The carriage house was an ideal center for a respite and for exploring the region...I highly recommend.