The old previous wall was poorly done by previous owner and falling apart. There is almost a foot more room in front of the "boathouse" than before. It is about 2 feet down to the water so it is really just a storage building for the lakefront - kayaks, dock furniture, umbrellas, tubes and fishing stuff. There is a 10' x 20' second floor room above it though that could be used as a bunkhouse though we don't use it for that. It used to have a wood stove upstairs that is long gone. It was built originally about 1960 and never intended to actually pull a boat in. Over the last 70 years (I have found out) the water level in the lake has had a low point of nearly 3 feet below where it is now. We actually had about 6 feet of "beach" in front of the deck when we purchased.