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 [...]
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Yankee Barn Homes: A Preparation Guide for Building
Yankee Barn Homes has prepared a guide designed to help you plan ahead for how your home, and more specifically your rooms, will be used. Ask yourself the following questions before your first meeting with a planner or home designer. Have your responses written down and take them with you every time you plan and/or [...]
Post and Beam Homes I’m Loving Right Now: A New Hampshire Mountain Retreat
Part two in my series on Homes I’m Loving Right Now focuses on a gorgeous house in the hills of New Hampshire. Within walking distance of a lake resort and a 10 minute drive to a major ski area, this home has a great deal to offer and that’s before you walk through the front [...]
Building A Post and Beam: 5 Tips to Keep Costs Down
Post and Beam homes are typically expected to cost more than a 2×4 “stick built” home. The reasons for this are many and varied, with the main ones being the cost of the high quality wood timber frame versus inexpensive wood studs, superior insulation, and the typical use of large glass areas. That being said, [...]
The Cottage and Post & Beam: Two Peas in a Pod
What a natural pairing; the cottage and the timber frame. People sometimes believe post and beam homes have to be large. Not so! Think back to your childhood fairytale books. Images of cottages in stories such as Goldie Locks, Red Riding Hood and Cinderella abound, and each time, the cottage was portrayed in adorable fashion [...]
The Doors of Post & Beam
I felt it only appropriate to write a post about the wide variety of entryways owners have chosen for their timber frame homes. I’ve often remarked a post & beam can be any architectural style the owner desires. Well, the same may be said for the front door. The entryway is an important architectural element [...]
The Nitty Gritty of Home Design: A Check List, Part I
In an earlier post, The Home Design Dilemma: 7 Lessons Learned, I stressed how important it is in knowing yourself, your needs and your wants prior to beginning the design process. In this two part post I’ll go into detail as, if you’re like me, needs and wants are not always readily apparent. I could [...]
Great Outdoor Structures to Complement a Post and Beam Home
As the weather gets warmer and yet another long winter has come to an end, our attention turns to outdoor living and the spaces we love to inhabit during the warmer days and nights of summer. Post and beam homes have an inherent connection to outdoor spaces. Those wonderful timbers used to frame the interior [...]
How to Revitalize an Older Barn Home
You’ve fallen in love with a rustic barn home; its beautiful timbers, great wood beams, wide board ceilings and heavy plank floors. It has great bones but is just a bit tired looking… and dark! How to spruce it up? Begin by setting a realistic budget. What do you want to accomplish and how much [...]
Exterior Design Do’s & Don’ts for the Aesthetically Challenged – Part II
Exterior Do’s & Don’ts Part 2 Do Concern Yourself With Window and Door Placement. While many of us spend time pouring over drawings of our floor plans, picturing where walls will be, how furniture will fit, the layout of the perfect work triangle for the kitchen; this thought process does not necessarily include how [...]
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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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