Lake House Inspiration and Tips
A lake house offers the unique opportunity to blend indoor comfort with the tranquility of nature.
Barn House Plans
Now here’s a great idea: present a selection of barn house plans all in one place and include renderings, photos, and floor plans for each home. Why haven’t I done this before? I have no good answer to this question, but I promise to rectify the situation here and now. These structures have been designed…
A Post and Beam in the New Hampshire Lakes Region
“Who wouldn’t want a post and beam home on a lake in New Hampshire?” would be an apt way to begin this post. When you see this home, you’ll definitely be telling yourself, I want “this post and beam”. The home is comprised of a main barn building with an ell and a two car…
Yankee Barn Homes on Lake Charlevoix, Michigan
This barn style home, built by Yankee Barn Homes on Lake Charlevoix, Michigan, is simply stunning. Built with the idea of complimenting it’s surrounding topography, the barn house is both unassuming and eye-catching, all at the same time. On the interior, the homeowners did a wonderful job of blending their love of the Early American…
Yankee Barn Homes Sunapee Cottage Floor Plans
As promised on Monday in the blog post A Yankee Barn Cottage on Lake Champlain, today’s post deals with the interior layout (floor plan) for the cottage named The Sunapee. In this post you’ll get a clear look as to how the interior of the home is configured. Please be assured, at Yankee Barn this…
A Yankee Barn Cottage On Lake Champlain
This Yankee Barn cottage on Lake Champlain is pretty near perfect. The body of the house is not all that large, yet the building has space for everything you’d need in a lakeside cottage. The best feature is the fantastic wrap around screened-in porch that faces the lake. Used by day as a place to have…
At Water’s Edge: Yankee Barn Homes Sit Pretty
Whether the edge of the body of water is a lake, a pond, the ocean, a stream or pool; it doesn’t really matter. When it comes to siting a post & beam home, the water’s edge makes a dynamite choice. Over the years, Yankee Barn Homes has designed and built quite a few houses on…
A Yankee Barn Home Sits Lakeside
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. [toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”The Exterior” hide=”yes”…
A Barn Home in the Upper Regions of Lake Michigan: Part 2
As promised in the previous post A Barn Home in the Upper Regions of Lake Michigan: Part 1, today we’ll further explore the evolution of the barn home built by Yankee Barn Homes and Adelaine Construction Company on Lake Charlevoix in Boyne City, Michigan. When last we saw the barn home, it looked like the…
A Barn Home in the Upper Regions of Lake Michigan: Part I
Wow, this post & beam barn home is classy and classic – both in it’s nod to barns of New England and it’s ability to meld beautifully with the topography of Boyne City, MI. Located on the shores of Lake Charlevoix, an off-shoot of Lake Michigan, this Yankee Barn barn-style home is a compact rectangle…
A Fantastic Timber Frame Under 2000 Square Feet
This Yankee Barn Homes cottage sits on the shores of Lake Sunapee, NH. To be more precise, the delightful little post & beam sits on an island in the middle of Lake Sunapee. The best part of this timber frame is, from bottom to top, it comes in at 1,994 totally usable square feet. A rectangle with full…