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Tips & Tidbits

7 Suggestions for Monitoring Construction Cost

Building & Design, Panelized Homes, Post & Beam Homes, Timber Frame Homes, Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderNovember 30, 2022

Yankee Barn Homes offers seven suggested areas where cost can be considered.

5 Design Items for Your Custom Mountain Home

Mountain Homes, Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderAugust 17, 2022

Yankee Barn Homes offers these 5 items to keep in mind as you design your mountain home.

Contemporary Prefab Mid-Century Modern Yankee Barn Home

How to Design and Build Energy Efficient Homes

Building & Design, Green Living, Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderFebruary 2, 2022

Yankee Barn Homes offers guidelines for designing and building energy efficient homes.

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Emphasis on Designing the Entryway

Barn Homes, Building & Design, Tips & Tidbits, YBH LifestyleBy Holly OstranderJune 10, 2021

Introduction Designing an entryway might seem like an after-thought, but it should be anything but. The entryway is the first step inside the interior of a home. It needs to be welcoming. It also needs to be functional as it is one of the most used areas of a home. Your entryway sets the tone…

How to Revitalize an Older Barn Home

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderApril 21, 2009

You’ve fallen in love with a rustic barn home; its beautiful timbers, great wood beams, wide board ceilings and heavy plank floors. It has great bones but is just a bit tired looking… and dark! How to spruce it up? Begin by setting a realistic budget. What do you want to accomplish and how much…

The Master Bedroom; Stop Telling Me It Needs To Be On The First Floor!

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderApril 8, 20094 Comments

People often suggest the need to design a house with the master bedroom on the first floor. You hear things like “someday you may not want or be able to climb stairs”.  Possibly, but it may also be true that we could stay in better shape as we age if we are climbing stairs. My…

Why Building New is Better

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderApril 3, 20092 Comments

  Yes, even in this economy. I know you’re saying to yourself “Is she nuts?” but please hear me out. I have a point or two that may resonate with some of you non-believers as I, too, would have fit into your category not so long ago. Having just built a new post and beam…

If You Don’t Know How to Cook, Stay Out of the Kitchen

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderApril 1, 20091 Comment

It occurs to me that unless someone knows how to cook they should not design a kitchen.  It’s a simple but totally practical theory.  If you don’t know the basic steps for boiling water, don’t mess around with kitchen design.    Here is where I have to insert a disclaimer: I love my husband dearly;…

Exterior Design Do’s & Don’ts for the Aesthetically Challenged – Part III

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderMarch 25, 2009

Exterior Do’s & Don’ts Part 3  Do Give That Wonderful Deck A Great Body – Or At Least Great Legs! Maybe you’ve seen one of my personal favorites (she says sarcastically); the deck off the first or second floor of a home with spindly-looking four by four posts as its only means of support. They look…

Exterior Design Do’s & Don’ts for the Aesthetically Challenged – Part II

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderMarch 24, 20091 Comment

Exterior Do’s & Don’ts Part 2   Do Concern Yourself With Window and Door Placement. While many of us spend time pouring over drawings of our floor plans, picturing where walls will be, how furniture will fit, the layout of the perfect work triangle for the kitchen; this thought process does not necessarily include how…

Exterior Do’s & Don’ts for the Aesthetically Challenged – Part I

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderMarch 23, 2009

As promised in my previous post, The Design Dilemma, I’d like to talk aboutthe exterior aesthetics of a post and beam home.  I’ll do this over the course of three blog posts so as not to cause your eyes to cross and/or your mind to go numb!   Exterior Dos & Don’ts Part 1 Often…

Second Floors, to Plank or Not to Plank?

Tips & TidbitsBy Holly OstranderMarch 21, 20094 Comments

Planked kitchen ceiling by Yankee Barn Homes   One of the beauties of a timber frame home is the gorgeous planked ceiling contrasting with the beams.  It really complements what a post and beam house is all about.  But the 2 ½” planks used by some builders for second floors leave the homeowner with quite…

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