YBH Interviews Our General Contractors: Gerard Mingino
Gerard Mingino is a general contractor on Long Island, specifically, in the area known as The Hamptons.
Yankee Barn Homes Aces the Infill Game
Infill builds have become a big part of the housing industry in urban areas and highly-sought-after vacation communities. If you want to build close to the city or a summer community, chances are you’ll be looking at an infill project. According to Wikipedia, an infill build is defined as “the re-dedication of land in an…
Barn Home Plans: Cove Hollow Is Ready For Its Close-Up
Post and Beam Living has chronicled Cove Hollow from the first renderings of its’ barn home plans through the completion on this shingle style YBH home. As with a number of current YBH builds, Cove Hollow is a hybrid, meaning it incorporates both post and beam and non-timbered panel construction. Hybrid shell packages are quite popular at YBH as some people want a post and beam frame here, but not there. Cove Hollow is the perfect example of how this looks in a completed home. It’s often thought because barn homes is in our company name, it’s the only style in which we build. Cove Hollow proves nothing could be further from the truth…
Design/Build Series II: So You Need To Create Floor Plans
IN our first Design/Build article, So You Want To Build A Home, Jeffrey Rosen and I addressed the topics of house orientation, size and architectural style. Today we discuss floor plans, including specific areas to take into account so they work for you now and in the future….
Yankee Barn Homes HOT on Pinterest – PT 1
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…
Building Today: Barn House Gathering Spaces
When planning your new post and beam home, barn house gathering spaces come under the heading of “must have”. Whether reading any of today’s many real estate publications or in speaking with realtors directly, you’ll come away with the same basic knowledge regarding today’s families and how we live in our homes. It doesn’t seem…
The Barn House at Oyster Shores Goes Up
The barn house at Oyster Shores is moving along quickly. If you are unfamiliar with our most recent build project, please see this link for an introduction and floor plan information. Since the first post when Yankee Barn Homes introduced this new expression in barn home design, a great deal of work has already been…
Yankee Barn Shingle Style Interior Photos
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…
Yankee Barn Homes East Hampton Update
The Yankee Barn Homes East Hampton barn homes are coming along beautifully. I just received pictures taken this past weekend of the progress. They are awe inspiring, to say the least! As told in my first post, Yankee Barn Homes In The Hamptons, these two barn homes are the brain-child of Jeffery Rosen and his…
Yankee Barn Homes IN THE HAMPTONS!
Not one, but two barn homes are currently under construction by Yankee Barn Homes in The Hamptons. WOW! Just the phrase “The Hamptons” conjures up thoughts of gorgeous homes, expansive stretches of pristine beach, and totally bucolic scenery. Add in the handsome look of two post & beam Yankee Barn Homes, and you’ve got magic.…