Faux finishes and barn homes go together like hand in glove. If you’re thinking about using a faux finish, consider doing it yourself. In today’s world of DIY paints and the internet, you can find everything you’ll need from doing a small project such as glazing a decorative box, up to using faux finishes throughout your [...]
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Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part II
In my most recent post, Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part I, I began a recounting of events which took place over the summer of 2010 in and around our Yankee Barn Homes carriage house. I quickly discovered there was too much to tell in one post. Here is Part [...]
Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer Of 2010 Part I
My first blog entry for Post and Beam Living was titled: Building the Post and Beam Dream. Nearly four years into living in our Yankee Barn Homes carriage house, the dream has not lessened one bit. For my husband and me – a pair of empty nesters – living in such a beautiful structure has [...]
Guidelines for the Exterior Appearance of Yankee Barn Homes
Guidelines for the exterior appearance of Yankee Barn Homes are presented in this post. They are suggestions based on what my husband and I found useful when building our own post and beam dream. I would have loved to have seen something such as this article when we were in the design process. An image [...]
Yankee Barn Homes Display Diverse Architectural Styles
Yankee Barn homes display diverse architectural styles and, as many of us already know, the nuances of architecture are all about the details. Any home construction company can build a basic rectangle, but what gets done with it from that point forward will determine the architectural style of the structure. Use vertical siding such as [...]
Barn Home Design: Is An Architect Necessary?
Barn home design: is an architect necessary? Good question! If you work with an architect, he/she may suggest doing something known as “massing studies.” Is this work important for you? Only you can answer this question. I’ll give you a bit of background information, particularly on massing studies, to help you decide whether an architect [...]
Yankee Barn Homes Suggests: Choosing Interior Paint Colors
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 [...]
Large and Small Windows In A Yankee Barn Home: 6 Tips
Large and small windows in a Yankee Barn home are a major consideration you’ll undertake early on when building a new post & beam structure. “Windows are to a building what a sculptor’s chisel is to a block of stone”. A good friend of mine told me that once. I laughed a bit and said [...]
5 Reasons Why Barn Homes are THE BEST!!!!!
I know what you’re thinking, “she wouldn’t be the managing editor and major contributor to Post & Beam Living if she didn’t believe barn homes were the best”, but they really are, and here’s my proof: 1. A Vast Array of Exterior Styles One might think in order to be a barn home, a structure [...]
Post & Beam Living Inspirations
Every once in awhile I come across a new post and beam home or barn that has a certain something. It can be as small as a cupola or as all-encompassing as the structure itself. Whenever I make these discoveries, I place the picture in an “Inspirations” folder. Every now and again, I go through [...]
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Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part II
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