Building New is Today’s Viable Solution to Housing In the past, buying a resale home has been far less expensive than building new. While that may still be true in some places, it is no longer the case for a large portion of the U.S. Not only is there a rapid rise in resale purchase…
Yankee Barn Homes has been designing and building custom homes for over 50 years.
New Barn Home Treehouse on Fawn Meadow Treehouse on Fawn Meadow is a new Yankee Barn Home inspired by our Springfield barn house. Designed to fit in with the rolling fields and natural surroundings of Northwest Connecticut, the home owner says Treehouse is “sustaining the desired motif of cozy and warm within the reach of…
Yankee Barn Homes offers guidelines for designing and building energy efficient homes.
The following are features clients consider essential when Yankee Barn Homes builds a home under 2000 square feet. While people building small can forego some things, there remains a consistent list of required items. Here are the most often requested “Must-Haves” in a Yankee Barn smaller home. Yankee Barn Smaller Home Must-Haves Exposed Timbers It’s…
Mid Century Modern integrated indoor/outdoor living has seen a resurgence in the home building industry. Nowhere is this truer than at Yankee Barn Homes. The Montauk is our latest Mid Century Modern design to use our trade marked wall and roof panel system. The only place post and beam exists in the Montauk is at…
Prefab homes used to bring to mind images of homes that were, shall we say, less than grand. But that was then. Today, Yankee Barn Homes panelized construction system produces beautiful homes with superior energy efficiency. Prefabrication has come a l-o-n-g way since the 1960s and YBH is at the forefront of the panelized build movement. Common wisdom on prefab homes is this: they are higher quality, more sustainable than stick-built, and…
Here in the land of Yankee Barn Homes, we have recently had some amazingly big storms which can present a number of challenges to a house. These have included heavy wet snow (load bearing issues), freezing rain measured by the ice-coated inch, and copious amounts of snow accompanied by Arctic cold temperatures (at 22 below…