My mom and I often disagree about taste and style particularly when it comes to architecture. She can not understand why I am such a huge fan of barn homes. As long as I can remember I have always had a love for barns. Barns are romantic symbols of our past. If not your personal [...]
Archive | April, 2009
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 [...]
Choosing Interior Paint Colors for the Post and Beam Home
I was recently involved in the extensive redecorating of a large post and beam home. Its original décor was done in a country style and was showing some serious signs of wear as well as looking a bit dated. I discovered one of the best, most cost effective and immediate ways to create a totally [...]
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 [...]
It’s True, Green is the New Black!
Building green isn’t just about catch phrases like carbon footprint, energy star rating and using expensive trendy flooring like bamboo. It’s not about labels and trademarks, but creating a healthier environment for ourselves and our family and friends to enjoy. Unhealthy chemicals are all around us. They are in everything we touch, breath, and sleep [...]
Additions and Remodeling: Post & Beam Takes Away the Terror
Remodeling a post & beam is a piece of cake compared to a similar project on a stick built home. One of the primary reasons is because the post & beam frame supports the structure while a stick built home’s structural support is provided by the interior walls. In the year 2000 friends of [...]
The Master Bedroom; Stop Telling Me It Needs To Be On The First Floor!
People often suggest the need to design a house with the master bedroom on the first floor. You hear things like “someday you may not want or be able to climb stairs”. Possibly, but it may also be true that we could stay in better shape as we age if we are climbing stairs. My [...]
Are Post and Beam Homes Stronger than the Average Home?
You may not believe this wild story but trust me, it is absolutely true. It happened to my close friend and I asked him to recount it for this post: I live in a Yankee Barn that was built in 1979 – 30 years old! April 15, 2007 was not one of my [...]
Why Building New is Better
Yes, even in this economy. I know you’re saying to yourself “Is she nuts?” but please hear me out. I have a point or two that may resonate with some of you non-believers as I, too, would have fit into your category not so long ago. Having just built a new post and beam home [...]
If You Don’t Know How to Cook, Stay Out of the Kitchen
It occurs to me that unless someone knows how to cook they should not design a kitchen. It’s a simple but totally practical theory. If you don’t know the basic steps for boiling water, don’t mess around with kitchen design. Here is where I have to insert a disclaimer: I love my husband dearly; [...]
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Living the Post and Beam Dream: The Summer of 2010 Part II
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