Mid Century Modern architecture in the American iteration, came about after World War II as a means to bring modernism to the post-war suburbs. Emphasizing structures with expansive glass and open floor plans, the style’s main goal was to open up interior spaces and bring the outdoors in. Many original Mid Century Modern homes used a post and beam architectural design to eliminate the need for bulky support walls…
Our newest contemporary post and beam barn home combines the best of two worlds; an open floor plan layout and the essence of a New England barn. The house has many interesting features, but one that immediately stands out is the…
Farmhouse barn; not two words you often see together, but bear with me. Yankee Barn’s latest design is a stunning post and beam barn home which incorporates a farmhouse wrap-around porch. Coming in at under 2,000 sq ft…
The barn house loft at Moose Ridge Lodge combines two of my favorite things, a lofted ceiling and a space that can be…
This is a story of a farmhouse named “Freedom Hill”. We’ll get to the origins of the name in part two of this post. Today, I want to relay how this Yankee Barn came to be. The homeowners always dreamed of building a post and beam and, as now happens quite often, found us on…
Cove Hollow, a YBH barn home shingle style has gone up in 8 days! The build site is located within the village of East Hampton. It’s an infill project (placing a structure between two existing homes) and is architecturally cohesive to the surrounding homes in the community. This house was designed to appear as though…
Yankee Barn Homes is thrilled to be featured in the latest book from Sheri Koones Prefabulous World: Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Homes Around the Globe. As the fourth book in the Prefabulous series, Sheri once again shatters the myth about the prefabricated home. In this book Ms Koones takes you from country to country, with the…
Great Idea Part II: more barn home plans! We’ve had such success with our first post, Barn House Plans, we’re back at it with more great barn homes including renderings, floor plans and in some cases, the finished product. The beauty of Yankee Barn Homes’ business model is this: if you love a plan but…
When building your dream barn home you take every detail into account. No one knows this better than the Westchester, NY couple who built their home away from home using houses they’d seen in the Rocky Mountains as a spring board. The couple also loved the rural barn architecture of the Catskills; so much so,…
At Yankee Barn Homes, it’s our business to KNOW what buyers want. We thought you might find it interesting to learn what we’ve discovered regarding this all important topic. As it turns out, people building Yankee Barn homes do not want “just a basic box”. In fact, customized details are a must-have, as they make…
Yankee Barn Homes is thrilled to announce a seven page spread in the current issue of Timber Home Living. The carriage house, named The Bennington, was originally designed five years ago and remains a very popular design for Yankee Barn today. It is an iconic interpretation of the New England Victorian era barn, a style…
A Los Angeles client recently came to Yankee Barn Homes with a challenge: build a unique house blending the handmade qualities and traditions of post and beam with materials which included stucco, steel, timber, poured concrete, stainless steel, and plenty of glass allowing for an abundance of light. Wow….! This is “thinking outside the box”,…