As summer approaches and thoughts turn to outdoor living, Yankee Barn home has the ideal location; lakeside. Upon approaching the home you might think you’re seeing a farm house style home, but the lake glimmering off in the distance suggests there’s more than meets the eye to this house. Aside from interior and exterior [...]
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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 [...]
Shameless Plug: Our Book Is Now Available!
For those of you who may not have heard me mention it about a ga-zillion times in past posts, my daughter, husband and I have written a book titled POST & BEAM DREAMS. It is specifically geared for those of you who are building, adding on, dreaming, or updating a post and beam home, but need a [...]
A Post and Beam Seaside Cottage: All Hands On Deck!
This Downeast Maine bay side retreat is meant for fun and a relaxing good time. Nothing fussy here, from the design of the structure to the interior decor, everything melds beautifully toward one unifying theme: relaxed enjoyment. Upon approaching this unassuming structure, you get the sense it may not be revealing all it’s secrets at first sight. [...]
A Shed and Garage Redux
This has got to be one of the smartest makeovers I’ve seen in quite some time and, even better, it involves a rundown garage, a shed and post and beam to the rescue. SCENARIO:You love a certain area; in this case Jamestown, RI which sits on Narragansett Bay facing Newport, RI. However your pocketbook does not love the price of owning a primary or vacation [...]
A Post and Beam Pool House in New Jersey
As stated in a recent post This Gentleman’s Farm Is A Timber Frame Work of Art I promised to return to this property because the pool house is worth a post unto itself. While it goes without saying the main house is spectacular, I have to admit if I had my druther’s, I’d live in the pool house. Really! Beautifully vaulted ceilings [...]
Carriage House Lifestyle: Multi-Use Accessories
Living in a carriage house is about the lifestyle. Extrapolated out, this will eventually come to encompass the accessories or things which help us define the life we live. I’m not saying everyone has to have the same look or style, that would be narrow and boring. What I am saying is that in living in a [...]
The Carriage House Lifestyle
As I’m now well into my third year of living in a post and beam carriage house, I’ve discovered there really is something to the notion of a certain “lifestyle” when living in a building such as this. The idea of creating a smaller footprint and scaling back, while still surrounding yourself with the things you love, [...]
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Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part II
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