10 Steps To Your New Yankee Barn Home
Building a new Yankee Barn Home may seem like a daunting task. We’ve laid out the process in a 10-step infographic in order to help understand how you’ll move through your build project…
New Barn House Design: The Harwich
This barn house is a medium to large size post and beam plan at 3,953 square feet with four bedrooms and four baths. The exterior style is a combination of farmhouse, barn and contemporary architecture, making it suitable for a suburban or rural setting on either a flat or sloped lot. Because the house has a number of bump-out features…
Barn House Plans: Our Most Popular Designs
Barn house plans are not a new commodity in the house building trade, however they have come a very l-o-n-g way from their humble (read drafty) beginnings. Today’s barn home is a combination of luxury and state of the art build technology incorporated into every…
Post and Beam Single Story Living: New Design Granite Ridge
Post and beam single story living affords advantages you might not expect. Truth is, gone are the days of the plain and boring box-style houses. The Granite Ridge plan offers lofted ceilings, open kitchen, dining and living areas, flexible rooms, extended outdoor living spaces and …
Yankee Barn Homes On Social Media
Yankee Barn Homes is known for our beautiful homes, our easy-to-navigate website and our eye-catching ads in magazines. Fast becoming known to many who follow us is this: Yankee Barn Homes has an extensive presence on a social media, too…
Post and Beam Living’s Top 5 Posts – Chosen By You!
Post and Beam Living closes out the year 2015 with a look back at our most popular articles chosen by you, our readers. There seems to be a theme in the articles you were consistently interested in reading – smaller Yankee Barn homes and single story living options. Take a look at what you loved in 2015 and plan your 2016!
Barn Home For The Holidays
A barn home for the holidays; has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? The holidays are the one time a year when friends and family make the extra effort to get together. Eat, drink and be merry becomes more than a cliché. The barn home lifestyle lends itself perfectly to this purpose. One of…
The Cabot Barn House Is Stunning
The Cabot barn house has been completed. When we last updated this barn home it was early summer and building was progressing nicely. Since then a whole lot of gorgeous has been happening with this open concept barn. All you need do is glance through the photos to see this is no ordinarily barn style home. Yankee Barn doesn’t do ordinary and neither do our clients. For starters, this house happens to be…
From Our Barn to Yours, Happy Thanksgiving!
Our barn, The Bennington Carriage House, is gearing up for the holiday season to begin. We are looking forward to spending time with good friends and family over the week to come. As I wrote in a past article on life in our barn, we love living in this unique home, particularly at holiday time. I know it may sound corny (no seasonal pun intended) but there really is something to the Yankee Barn lifestyle…
Timber Frame Before and After: Mansfield Hollow Cottage
This timber frame before and after feature will be of great interest to a number of potential Yankee Barn clients, as many often request Small Barn Home plans. Well, this little wonder should be right up your alley. Mansfield Hollow Cottage packs a lot of punch in it’s 1789 sq ft plan, complete with the option for single floor living…
A Barn House Re Envisioned
Barn house does not necessarily mean “ traditional barn style home”. In the world of Yankee Barn Homes, the appearance of a home may be in just about any architectural style the client wishes. For example The Alexandria has a farmhouse presence due to a long porch on the gable end that wraps around the…
Timber Frame Territory: Pottery Barn and the YBH Lifestyle
Have you ever looked through a Pottery Barn catalog and thought to yourself “I’d like to jump into that room and live there”? Me, too! It’s not only the way everything is so artfully arranged in the photo – plenty of catalogs do that – it’s about the comfort and lifestyle Pottery Barn is repeatedly able to capture and convey. I believe I know why they’re able to do this: the barn style house backdrop is a strong presence. I call it “Timber Frame Territory”…