We have some exciting new builds going on at Yankee Barn Homes. Although the two projects featured today are at the opposite end of the spectrum size-wise, they are the perfect projects to showcase the custom capabilities of Yankee Barn Homes. A classic Victorian style barn home we call The Mill River sits lakeside in…
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…
Barn home building at Yankee Barn Homes is flourishing! Please understand when I use the term “barn home”, I don’t mean only homes in the barn style; Yankee Barn builds in many styles and types of homes/additions. We’ve got projects going in Ontario, Canada, East Hampton, Martha’s Vineyard, Newport, RI, Naples, ME and Dover, MA.…
This post and beam farmhouse is going to be a beauty. Originally presented as renderings and floor plans in a previous post, The Proctor is a barn home farmhouse designed to provide that sense of permanence and stability we all need in our home. Nothing does this better than the solid (and beautiful) post and…
Building a post and beam home can be daunting. Heck, building any home can be daunting! It is always a good idea to have a “wish list”; the personal requirements and desires you’re looking for in a home. Along with that list, compile a hard copy folder and/or an electronic file of home features you…
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,…
This carriage house goes from components and pieces, to a completely enclosed structure in five days. I’ve purposely left the time stamp on the photos so you may not only watch the progress, but be able to tell how much gets done each day. It’s a fascinating thing to see, in person or by way…
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…
The other day I had a neighbor stop by our Yankee Barn carriage house to ask about the Yankee Barn Homes build process. It seemed he’d been passing by for some time and got to wondering how our home came into being four years ago. He’d watched as the lot was cleared, the driveway put…
Always buy quality in these 5 Yankee Barn Homes build categories is a post which came about as a result of my own build experience. When building a post & beam home it is important to keep two things in mind: a budget and a detailed plan, while understanding you’re likely to amend both throughout the build process. It is…
Yankee Barn Homes: five suggestions to lower building costs are presented in this article. Post and Beam homes are expected to cost more than a 2×4 “stick built” home. The reasons for this are many and varied; however, the main ones have to do with the cost of a high quality timber frame (opposed to…
Yankee Barn Homes defines industry terms. There may be times during the build-process when certain terminology is used by industry people that some of us might not understand. This happened to me more than once when my husband and I were building. I could have used a “cheat sheet” of terms and reasoned some of…