As promised on Monday in the blog post A Yankee Barn Cottage on Lake Champlain, today’s post deals with the interior layout (floor plan) for the cottage named The Sunapee. In this post you’ll get a clear look as to how the interior of the home is configured. Please be assured, at Yankee Barn this…
This Yankee Barn cottage on Lake Champlain is pretty near perfect. The body of the house is not all that large, yet the building has space for everything you’d need in a lakeside cottage. The best feature is the fantastic wrap around screened-in porch that faces the lake. Used by day as a place to have…
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…
Welcome to Yankee Barn Homes’ new monthly interview series. As promised in my previous post announcing Design Talk , our first interview will deal with finding out “Who is Jeffrey Rosen?”. So, without further ado, let’s get started! Jeffrey’s Stats Jeffrey Rosen is a seasoned NYC based interior/architectural designer. ” I’m a graduate of Parson’s…
You may have recently read a post or two from us in which the name Jeffery Rosen has been mentioned. This is because Jeffery has joined the Yankee Barn Homes family as the Creative Director. To use the word creative in combination with Jeffery may actually be understating. Jeffery has had 25 years in the…
One of the best features about building a Yankee Barn Homes post and beam cottage is the amazing amount of leeway clients may take with a given floor plan. The following two cottages, which have already been built by Yankee Barn, are excellent examples of the same basic plan conceptualized in two different ways. This…
The last time we saw this East Hampton English Cottage, it was just beginning to reveal itself. Quaint stucco exteriors and large Tudor style brick fireplaces were major hints. Several months later this wonderful cottage reveals more of it’s secrets as it moves swiftly toward completion. The exterior is close to finished, including the pool…
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…
Yankee Barn homes display diverse architectural styles and the nuances of architecture are all about the details. Any home construction company can build a basic rectangle, but what gets done with it from that point forward will determine the architectural style of the structure. Use vertical siding such as shiplap or board and batten, add…
In the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia, ensconced on the side of a mountain is the cutest post and beam home. Built by Yankee Barn Homes and coming in at a conservative 2200 square feet, this timber frame is my latest crush! Yet to be professionally photographed, the pictures shown here…
For those of you who may not have heard me mention it about a ga-zillion times in past posts, my daughter, husband and I have written a book titled POST & BEAM DREAMS. It is specifically geared for those of you who are building, adding on, dreaming, or updating a post and beam home, but need a…
A Post and Beam Farmhouse Style Guest Cottage has followed me around for several years now. It was the first post and beam cottage I’d ever seen and I took an immediate liking to it. Nothing has changed over the intervening years as it remains one of my most favorite, even though others have come…