Farmhouse Flavor It may be waning elsewhere, but at YBH the Farmhouse style remains highly popular. Much like the barn house, a YBH farmhouse is more about a lifestyle than a singular look or feature. However, a large front porch remains a must have for clients building in the farmhouse style. Mountain Lodge Style Because…
With 49 years building custom designs under our belt, we have discovered a few things about the importance of…
The Wyoming is one of Yankee Barn Homes’ most recent designs. It has been a fun plan to watch develop as being an east coast company, we don’t get the opportunity to design in the western lodge architectural style as often as we’d like. Speaking of which, who says you have to actually live in the west to love the architecture? But I digress…
During this very special time of the year, we at Yankee Barn Homes would like to share a few seasonal photos of our favorite homes and barns. Some are purposefully decorated, some are decorated by nature; all are beautiful! An early winter snow squall makes the perfect setting for barn homes. Sent to us from…
Wow! Yankee Barn Homes has had quite a successful month on Pinterest, and May is not yet over! We’ve had so many photographs pinned and re-pinned, I can’t actually show them all here (not enough room), hence the part 1. We’ll show the remainder of the top Pinterest photos next Tuesday, in Part 2. To…
For many of Yankee Barn Homes’ clients, post and beam game rooms come under the heading of a “necessary” space in the home. While many have been built to meet specific needs of the individual family, we have discovered these rooms appeal to a broad spectrum of people. Whether it’s called a “man cave”, a…
Each of the following post and beam floor plans are from Yankee Barn Homes, and are recommended here because they have been proven to work. Each one allows for unrestricted traffic flow and an efficient means to get from public to private spaces easily and succinctly. However, they are all unique in their design and…
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…
Post and beam kitchens with floor plans that work: Yankee Barn Homes has them – a lot of them! Many of us have already heard we should consider the work triangle when designing a kitchen floor plan for most efficient and usable space. The stove, sink and refrigerator are the three most often used appliances/areas…
Yankee Barn Homes builds houses and barns with attitude – good attitude, that is! Having spent the last two years putting pictures of many Yankee Barn Homes all over every social media site I can find; Flickr, this blog, Twitter, Facebook, and now Pinterest, I’ve had the opportunity to receive a large amount of feedback…
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…