The major benefits of post and beam frames are many, but for purposes here, I’m going to focus on two; the mechanical and the visual. As exhibited in these photos, the advantages of post and beam frames are numerous. If you’d like to see more gorgeous frames in some of the most beautiful barn homes [...]
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Barn Architecture Stands The Test of Time
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re interested in architecture, and more specifically in possibly building a post and beam barn, carriage house or timber frame home some day. If so, you’re obviously already into great architecture and the timber frame structure in particular. Well, nothing says timber frame quite like a barn. Old or recently built, the truly great ones all [...]
Win A Farmers Market Open Air Barn!
Check this out! Yankee Barn Homes, a custom post & beam home building company specializing in upscale structures, is giving away this gorgeous open air barn to one lucky community! If you think your community might be interested, please click this link, The Great Barn Giveaway to learn more.
Artists For Barns Event This Weekend
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 [...]
Gorgeous Barns Go Glam As Wedding and Celebration Venues
I’ll bet when farm animals were roaming around these buildings, never in a million years did anyone think “this would make a beautiful place for a wedding”. Actually, it makes perfect sense as the very first early European churches were actually barns. Yes, those very structures that had previously housed livestock and such. As someone [...]
Bank Barns: Sloping Terrain Becomes An Asset
One of the most common mistakes made when building a barn or a home is thinking the terrain needs to be altered to suit the structure. Consider taking a cue from past centuries and turn that thought around by allowing the site to determine the structure. Altering a site is expensive and often times totally [...]
Vineyard Barns Make For Fantastic Inspiration
I sort of fell into this topic recently as there is soon to be a wedding in our family and in trying to come up with a different idea for a shower, my daughter suggested we do a “vineyard tour” on the coast of Maine. Plans have now been made and let me tell you, it’s [...]
A Barn Raising in Vermont: Up In Two Weeks
I watched this barn go up. 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 got. The frame and roof [...]
Post and Beam Dreams: P&B Living to Publish A Book!
Happy New Year! Post and Beam Living is extremely excited to announce we’re writing a book about the post and beam structure to be published in late 2010. This picture book will help future home builders decide what styles of post and beam homes best fit their lifestyles and personal tastes. How cool is that? [...]
Rustic Elegance in a Barn Home Addition
Actually, this addition to an 18th century cape came about in a very unusual way. Normally one finds or has the old cape first then adds on; not so in this case. These homeowners were house hunting in New England when their realtor showed them a gorgeous timber frame home. They were captivated but came [...]
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Post. Beam. Dream. Yankee Barn Homes Today
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The Evolution of a Yankee Barn Contemporary Farmhouse
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A Yankee Barn Home Sits Lakeside
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Do It Yourself Faux Finishes For Barn Homes
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Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part II
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