This category includes a broad range of blog posts all pertaining to post and beam building or the post and beam design process. Architectural inspirations, design ideas, tips for building new post and beam homes and additions and more!
Yankee Barn Homes is by most standards a small custom home building company. Our staff totals fewer than fifty people. We are located in the northern regions of New England, specifically Grantham, New Hampshire. Grantham is a wonderful town with much to offer, but no one would consider it a construction mecca. However, with close…
Location, Location, Location… We all know the real estate mantra because it is such a cliché when buying a home. The phrase also holds true when building a home. A site’s location, or more precisely, its climate, is an integral part of a home’s design. The type of weather a site experiences plays a large…
Yankee Barn Homes is highly skilled at taking you from conceptualization to build.
With 49 years building custom designs under our belt, we have discovered a few things about the importance of…
Building industry trends are an excellent way to stay on top of what really works when designing a home.
Meet YBH Director of Project Management, Kerri Post
There was a time when prefabricated-panel was a not so admired word in home building. Offsite fabrication was an outlier in the industry. The term prefab was spoken in hushed tones, often accompanied by a sneer. Terminology used in the build industry can be confusing to people. PREFABRICATED PANELS is an excellent example. Some believe…
The following are features clients consider essential when Yankee Barn Homes builds a home under 2000 square feet. While people building small can forego some things, there remains a consistent list of required items. Here are the most often requested “Must-Haves” in a Yankee Barn smaller home. Yankee Barn Smaller Home Must-Haves Exposed Timbers It’s…
Gerard Mingino is a general contractor on Long Island, specifically, in the area known as The Hamptons.
Over the next few months we’ll speak with the general contractors most often chosen by YBH clients to build their homes.
There is a misconception about the post and beam architecture Yankee Barn Homes builds.
Yankee Barn Homes go up quickly; most often in under two weeks and, many times, faster.