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 [...]
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Barn Homes Are To Die For!
It’s official – I LOVE barns and barn homes. There’s nothing like rounding the corner or cresting a rise to catch your first sight of a home that just takes your breath away. And nothing does it for me like a majestic post and beam barn. I understand it’s an acquired taste for some, but for those of us who come [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Interior Barn-Style Design
I’d like to preface this post by saying that one can design the interior of a barn any way one likes; all styles of interior decor will work with barn architecture. However, this post is particularly for those of us who like the idea of living in a barn; you know, the kind that looks like [...]
Holiday Décor: Barns Inside and Out
This time of year, especially living in the Northeast, there is nothing more enjoyable than checking out the decorations people use to festoon their barns. And not just the exteriors. Although that’s what we the viewing public can see, many decide to carry over the cheer to the interior of the barn as well. Christmas, [...]
Timber Frame Barn Home Addition: A Photographer Finds Her Focus
What to do when you have a wonderful location, a beautiful site with a home you love and a well established business reputation but no available space for that home-based photography business? Well, if you’re this New England home owner, you take inspiration from the barn architecture of the surrounding area, commit a few of [...]
Timber Frame Barns: An American Icon
Quick; think of one structure every state in the country has in common. You guessed it (probably because I gave away the answer in the title), The Timber Frame Barn. They may have their own details indigenous to a geographical location, but the ties that bind all barns together begin in their bones with the [...]
Post & Beam Home Design…Lesson #3
Lesson # 3: Know what you need. Know what you want. Consider interior & exterior. Bring pictures. This will assist both you and your designer/planner (whether it’s an architect or a post and beam design specialist) immensely. People often know the amount of money they’re willing to spend but many don’t really know how they’d [...]
Oo-La-La: Post & Beam Meets the Louis’ (XIV, XV, and XVI)
I must confess: I’ve not always been a fan of the boys and their over the top opulence. But you know what they say about those who come late to something. I’m so pathetic; I decorated my home without consciously realizing I was totally creating a Louis XVI French Country Look. How sad is that? [...]
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Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part II
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