The Beacon Carriage House is now in it’s final stages of exterior completion. Continuing through the rain and snow of this Connecticut winter, Yankee Barn Homes and the build team have soldiered on and the building displays all their hard work. The Beacon Carriage House Yankee Barn Homes Director of Architectural Engineering, Chris Sevingy,…
As a nice change of pace, today you’ll hear from the wonderful team at Yankee Barn Homes as they tell you, in their own words, which house is their favorite, and why. These are the folks who “eat, sleep and breath” all that is Yankee Barn Homes five days a week. They know what they’re…
Post and beam is a building term both familiar and mysterious. Some hear the phrase and think of a rustic, mountain-lodge style, while others think industrial, such as turn of the 19th Century mill buildings. Still others may think of a barn. It turns out all of these thoughts are correct, and then some. This…
I introduced you to The Beacon Carriage House last month in my first post on this beautiful post and beam. Today’s update is in tended to catch you up on all that has occurred over the past four weeks. Quite a bit has happened since we last saw this timber frame going up, so let’s…
This Yankee Barn in Western New York is an interesting combination of New England Victorian (the exterior) and Greek Revival and Second Empire (New York) styles (the interior). With city and town names such as Ithaca, Syracuse and Cortland surrounding this post and beam, it makes sense the latter two styles would influence the interior…
In the previous post, The Yankee Barn Build Process – Phase I, we began explaining the components of the process clients follow when designing and building a Yankee Barn Home. We left off with the client being assigned a Design Manager to oversee their build project. The Design Manager stays with the client through the…
There are people who see our business name, YANKEE BARN HOMES, and think we build only barn style homes. This could not be further from the truth. If you can imagine it, we can pretty much turn your vision into a reality. We build in many different styles. Take a look at some of the…
Barn home kitchen styles might conjure up thoughts of a rehabbed barn with unfinished beans and a country style kitchen in one corner of the open space. While this is one way to go, and many did so in the 1970’s, post and beam kitchens have come a long way since the ’70’s. At Yankee…
All sorts of things are happening at Yankee Barn Homes these days; not the least of which are all the new build-projects. Carriage houses, barn homes, an English cottage, and a business organization’s lodge style retreat, to name but a few. Oh, and did I mention there’s a complete remodel taking place at the Yankee…
Whether the edge of the body of water is a lake, a pond, the ocean, a stream or pool; it doesn’t really matter. When it comes to siting a post & beam home, the water’s edge makes a dynamite choice. Over the years, Yankee Barn Homes has designed and built quite a few houses on…
There’s a common misconception out there which goes something like this: “Barn homes are either old barns converted into new living spaces, or new structures built to resemble a rehabbed barn.” While both may be true, these two concepts are only two of the many architectural styles in which a “barn home” may be interpreted. I…
In my most recent post, Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part I, I began a recounting of events which took place over the summer of 2010 in and around our Yankee Barn Homes carriage house. I quickly discovered there was too much to tell in one post. Here is Part…