The use of paint colors to enhance a home, interior or exterior, is something to be considered early on in the design/build process. There is no right or wrong when it comes to color as it is a subjective experience. But there are ways to boost the desired effect through the use of…
The barn home is a special creature. It has major character and interest due to the added hues and textures of the exposed post and beam frame. Color on the walls becomes all the more important when considering how to best accentuate and highlight your barn home interior. Jeffrey Rosen, Creative Director for Yankee Barn…
Yankee Barn Homes builds gorgeous post and beam homes and Houzz.com features beautiful houses. Therefore, it’s only natural that Yankee Barn Homes on Houzz is the place to go for not only the perfect post and beam home, but great ideas for interior decor. To date, we have two hundred twenty two photos of seventeen…
Yankee Barn Homes continues the series Instant Room today with a look at refreshing and revitalizing a dining room using the colors of spring. As with our March instant room, A Soothing Bedroom, these boards have been selected and designed by Wendy Bircher. She will be answering questions regarding her thought process and how these…
At Yankee Barn Homes, we are often asked what interior styles and decors look good or “work” in a post and beam home. While we believe any and all can work, we’ve put together a few “rooms” to give you an idea of what’s hot right now, and why we like the looks we’ve chosen.…
The interior photos of our Yankee Barn Shingle Style home in The Hamptons are here! For the first time, we have shots of the inside of this spectacular house in East Hampton, NY. While not yet completely furnished, it doesn’t matter as the structure has major personality. Actually, I like seeing the house without all…
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…
How to choose interior paint colors for post and beam homes continues to be a popular topic among Yankee Barn Homes clients. As interior styles and decor come and go, there remain “go to” colors for timer frame homes. This is related to the fact that in post and beam homes, the color of the…
The choice of interior paint colors is important for any home. For a post and beam home, it’s imperative to choose your color(s) wisely. The color needs to compliment the stain color of your timber frame structure while doing the same for the color ways exhibited in your interior decor. I have a few suggestions…
Barn homes master baths come in all shapes and sizes. The phrase “master bath” is often misconstrued to mean grandiose and/or large. While some of them may indeed be large, at Yankee Barn Homes, not all of them are large square footage-wise, but all contain exactly what the homeowners require. Take a look through the…
Having written this blog for over two years now, I’m pleased to share with you the five posts which have become top favorites of readers by receiving the most views since the beginning of this blog. They appear here in the same order as they do on Post and Beam Living’s Stats page. Once I’ve listed the top five posts,…
I feel the need to confess something; I’m one of those people who LOVES to decorate a room, live with it for a bit then begin the move-it-in, move-it-out, or move-it-around process. Redecorating is in my blood. But before you think I’m a person who loves to throw money around – think again. I’m quirky, not crazy!…