My sympathies, Anna. When we built, our first structure was an outbuilding. Depending on which inspector was harrassing us, it was sometimes a barn and sometimes a garage. One told us if it's a barn it must be on the back half of our property (across a wetland and stream, on a forested hillside - real practical). For that guy, it was clearly a garage. I think the garage guy wanted the house to be built first, or some such nonsense, so then it became a barn. If animals too close to the intended house were a problem, perhaps it was a storage shed. Whatever got them heading out the driveway... I also learned and perfected my stock answer to everything said: Oh. One can put lots of different inflections on that simple word, and in the end you can't really be quoted.