Yankee Barn Homes and Simon Pearce Unveil the Ultimate Winter Getaway Giveaway. Yankee Barn Homes and Simon Pearce, the Vermont-based designer of hand-blown glass, handmade pottery and unique tabletop accessories, celebrate our New England backdrop with a Winter Weekend Getaway Giveaway.This contest invites fans to share their best New England-inspired holiday décor tips for a chance to…
I readily admit it; I’m a color enthusiast. When faced with the choice of using color or going with white, I’ll choose a color every time. However, this is not to mean I’m okay with what I like to call “electric techno-color” shades. I lean more toward muted tints and deeply saturated pigments. I find these tones superb compliments…
Yankee Barn Homes and Gallery on the Green, the Woodstock, VT based art gallery, cordially invite you to the Yankee Barn Homes “Gathering House” model home for an Artist for Barns art exhibit and local wine and cheese tasting. View and buy paintings or prints by 16 New England artists to help restore the “giant barn” at the historic…
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” or “Charity (and comfort) begins at home”. Okay, I added the “and comfort” part, but you probably know where this post is headed. Life today is hectic; we operate in over-drive much of the time. As many of us look for a calm and soothing…
Yes, I mean WOW!! I was at the first photo shoot of this Yankee Barn Homes barn home in the Catskill Mountains several years ago. I thought it was amazing then. Little did I know what was about to be added to the back yard. The homeowner, an amazing woman with a picture-perfect eye for…
Regular followers of PostandBeamLiving.com may recall that our own “Beambabe” did a post back in February called 6 Great Photo Books for Post & Beam Homes. This is somewhat of a Part 2 to that post. Regular PostandBeamLiving.com followers may also recall that Beambabe is co-authoring a book about post and beam / timber…
A timber frame barn home is unique in that its interior is all about the frame (those gorgeous posts and beams), therefore showing it off is a must. But it’s not the only part of a barn home that should make a statement. The exterior is the first impression your home will make and it should be…
While everyone out there does not have the same tastes, there are certain lighting companies no one can argue against and I’m here to lead you to them. Whether your taste is modern, rustic, classic or eclectic; if you live in a post and beam home (or even if you don’t), you will not go wrong using any of these…
I watched this barn go up. azithromycin online purchase It was an amazing thing to see the process from start to finish, and I kid you not, this barn was built in fourteen days. The owner is a gentlemen farmer and needed housing for his sheep and he needed it NOW. So that’s what he…
I’m admittedly a fan of all things French so it won’t come as much of a surprise that the post & beam home featured here is one of my personal favorites. It’s actually two post & beam structures built at different times as the family and their home grew. No matter, the look of relaxed elegance…
The following is an article that recently appeared in the Nashua, NH Telegraph. It was written by our build construction supervisor, Steve Manning. Steve is the constructions operation officer at Yankee Barn Homes. To say he was invaluable would be making a huge understatement! DO YOUR RESEARCH WHEN FINDING THE RIGHT BUILDER “With spring around the corner…
Beam Outdoor Room, it never fails; at this time of year my attention turns outside. Having survived another winter, I’m feeling as though I want to spend as much time as possible outdoors. Once the yard is cleaned up and the gardens tended (okay, those two things are ongoing, months-long projects), it’s time to kick…