This post and beam pavilion is ready to take center stage as the summer season will soon be upon us. Set adjacent to a gorgeous Yankee Barn in the Catskills of New York, the tiered patios, pool and pavilion – complete with a summer kitchen – combine to create a backyard playground for young and…
The barn loft is a perfect space for kids. At Yankee Barn Homes, we’ve seen our clients utilize the loft space in a number of creative ways to incorporate a space meant solely for the kids, be they children or grandchildren. For those of us lucky enough to have been able to play in and…
The barn home is a special creature. It has major character and interest due to the added hues and textures of the exposed post and beam frame. Color on the walls becomes all the more important when considering how to best accentuate and highlight your barn home interior. Jeffrey Rosen, Creative Director for Yankee Barn…
Great Idea Part II: more barn home plans! We’ve had such success with our first post, Barn House Plans, we’re back at it with more great barn homes including renderings, floor plans and in some cases, the finished product. The beauty of Yankee Barn Homes’ business model is this: if you love a plan but…
When building your dream barn home you take every detail into account. No one knows this better than the Westchester, NY couple who built their home away from home using houses they’d seen in the Rocky Mountains as a spring board. The couple also loved the rural barn architecture of the Catskills; so much so,…
In today’s real estate market, you should definitely consider building your own YBH custom home. What many folks don’t realize is this: we can build a new home for the same price as buying a used home. Here are my Top 10 Reasons for building your own YBH custom home: 1. Complete Design Control of…
Our newest barn home, The Grantham Lakehouse, is a custom design which takes us back to our 40 year old roots. Barns and barn imagery are strong architectural influences, particularly in the New England market. The simplicity of form is not only appealing to the eye, but economic to build. The Grantham Lakehouse is a…
Pardon my reference to the Wizard of Oz, but I wanted to talk about the differences between the various building systems of our home construction process. The Prefabricated or “Prefab” term is used to define any construction which assembles sections of a home. The prefab definition can be further broken down between Manufactured, Modular and…
Yankee Barn Homes will be displaying at the 2014 New England Home Show located at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA this weekend, Feb 21-23 at booth #634. Be sure to mark your calendars and join us. Not only does Yankee Barn Homes have an impressive array of photos, floor plans and information,…
Yankee Barn Homes is sponsoring COVER’s annual Benefit Concert featuring Keb’ Mo’ on Wednesday, March 19th at 7:30 at the Lebanon Opera House. Winner of three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Blues Album, Keb’ Mo’ is a proven champion of blues in the 21st century. Hope you join us for this terrific event, tickets are…
With the success of our custom barn home Sands Point, a phenomenally popular Yankee Barn Homes shingle style, comes Cove Hollow, an East Hampton home that takes the Sands Point design to the next level. We’ve updated the floor plan to allow an additional bedroom on the second floor, and the option of a first…
Yankee Barn Homes floor plans can be customized or our designers will start from scratch to meet your specific site requirements, your lifestyle, wants and needs. One of the unique things about a post and beam home is the fact that the load bearing walls are on the exterior and thus the floor plans are…