Yankee Barn Homes is known for our beautiful homes, our easy-to-navigate website and our eye-catching ads in magazines. Fast becoming known to many who follow us is this: Yankee Barn Homes has an extensive presence on a social media, too…
The small barn home has been a popular topic at Yankee Barn Homes. We’ve received major interest from a number of potential clients regarding post and beam timber frame designs which incorporate all the bells and whistles YBH is known for, but within a smaller foot print. We’ve heard you and are excited to be expanding in the area of barn home designs at and under 2000 square feet.
Post and Beam Living closes out the year 2015 with a look back at our most popular articles chosen by you, our readers. There seems to be a theme in the articles you were consistently interested in reading – smaller Yankee Barn homes and single story living options. Take a look at what you loved in 2015 and plan your 2016!
We at Yankee Barn Homes and Post and beam Living would like to wish you and yours the happiest of holiday seasons. We’ll be back next week with an interview of Jeffrey Rosen, co-owner of YBH. He’ll be talking about highlights from 2015 and giving us a preview of exciting things on the horizon for…
A barn home for the holidays; has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? The holidays are the one time a year when friends and family make the extra effort to get together. Eat, drink and be merry becomes more than a cliché. The barn home lifestyle lends itself perfectly to this purpose. One of…
The Cabot barn house has been completed. When we last updated this barn home it was early summer and building was progressing nicely. Since then a whole lot of gorgeous has been happening with this open concept barn. All you need do is glance through the photos to see this is no ordinarily barn style home. Yankee Barn doesn’t do ordinary and neither do our clients. For starters, this house happens to be…
Our barn, The Bennington Carriage House, is gearing up for the holiday season to begin. We are looking forward to spending time with good friends and family over the week to come. As I wrote in a past article on life in our barn, we love living in this unique home, particularly at holiday time. I know it may sound corny (no seasonal pun intended) but there really is something to the Yankee Barn lifestyle…
Barn house does not necessarily mean “ traditional barn style home”. In the world of Yankee Barn Homes, the appearance of a home may be in just about any architectural style the client wishes. For example The Alexandria has a farmhouse presence due to a long porch on the gable end that wraps around the…
Have you ever looked through a Pottery Barn catalog and thought to yourself “I’d like to jump into that room and live there”? Me, too! It’s not only the way everything is so artfully arranged in the photo – plenty of catalogs do that – it’s about the comfort and lifestyle Pottery Barn is repeatedly able to capture and convey. I believe I know why they’re able to do this: the barn style house backdrop is a strong presence. I call it “Timber Frame Territory”…
Coming in at 2821 sq ft (not including garage or porch) The Winnipesaukee is the perfect timber frame design for empty nesters, or eye toward a future empty nest, who entertain overnight guests. The post and beam house is easily closed off from the two bedrooms/bath located over the garage, while allowing them to become part of the home when friends and family visit. On the first floor, the great room features a lofted ceiling while the remainder of the open floor plan accommodates …
Small barn house Boulder Meadows has been completed and it’s amazing! Coming in under 2000 square feet, this home is of modest size on paper while affording an open floor plan associated with open post and beam architecture. As with all Yankee Barn custom designs, this house is proof positive that a smaller footprint does not mean a small space or appearance. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Better yet…
Yankee Barn Homes Architectural Engineer, Andrew Williams, is one multi-faceted person. As you’ll see and read in this interview, Andy has many talents, and does them all extremely well…