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…
As a change of pace, thought you might be interested in seeing what a barn home looks like prior to one post or beam being cut and placed. This is a current project Yankee Barn Homes is working on for clients in Massachusetts. Besides the drawings and floor plans you’ll see here, the clients are…
A Yankee Barn home is the perfect setting for all things Restoration Hardware, particularly when it comes to lighting. Recently, new owners of a Yankee Barn home in Connecticut discovered this very fact, with stunning results. As post and beam barn homes are inherently visually strong, the lighting must compliment the structure while not either…
The air is clear, the apples are crisp and the color is popping – it’s nearing Fall in post and beam country! Okay, it’s nearing Fall everywhere, but in New England fall is special. It’s something about the combination of the sparkling blue skies and the vivid colors of those maple trees that create the…
Many see the term “barn houses” and “post and beam” or “timber frame” and think: log home living. This is actually not the case. Log homes tend to be more rustic with a very large amount of wood exposed on the interior. Post and beam homes expose the timber structure on the interior where and…
Post and Beam Living is thrilled to announce an exciting new monthly feature called Design Talk with Jeffrey Rosen, an interview series focused on anything and everything to do with design and decor in today’s home design. Our expert in the field will be Jeffrey Rosen, Principle Designer at Jeffrey Rosen Interior Design, Inc., located…
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…
From the first post entry on this barn home, Yankee Barn Homes in The Hamptons, through several other posts on the progress of the home, this post is what we’ve been waiting for: the professionally photographed pictures of this stunning contemporary barn home. Jeffery Rosen, both architectural designer and interior decorator for this project, has…
We began following this post and beam barn style farmhouse back at the beginning of this year with the first post Yankee Barn Homes in The Hamptons, then did a follow-up complete with updated photos in Yankee Barn Homes East Hampton Update. Today’s post will reveal how far the home has come, with the exterior…
Single level vs multilevel living in a Yankee Barn home is an important topic to cover, as now and again clients suggest the desire to design a single level post and beam home. Many times it’s because they feel a need to plan for the future. A major concern is “someday we may not want…
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…