American Barn & Barn Style Homes

American barns for an affordable solution to style look no further than the American Barn. American Barns have many uses including car garages, boat shed, workshop, housing caravans, horse stable, storage and games room to name a few. Widths start at 9m. Both length and width can expand to suit your purpose. Heights for either the side lean-tos or middle section can also be changed. The standard roof pitch for the American Barn is 22 degrees but a mansard roof also looks great. You can easily personalize your barn with windows and glass sliding doors. We can even supply double glazing, security screens and window locks.
American Barns are popular in working yards, such as liveries and riding schools, as everything is in one place and under one roof - arranged around a central passageway and are an ideal solution to many aspects of horse care in both winter and summer. Grooming, tacking up, mucking out, etc. can all done in the comfort of a large and airy environment fitted out with internal stables.
Once prominent landmarks that dotted rural America, barns are vanishing at an alarming rate. Known as one of the earliest forms of architecture in colonial times through the industrial revolution, these icons represent and record our agrarian roots. As time marches on and the natural materials that barns are constructed of decay, each year we loose an important part of our collective past.
Large corporate farms dominate American agriculture today. These mega-farms spawn large metal and fiberglass buildings that might be called barns, but are far removed from real barns. Real barns came in many sizes, types and styles. There were livestock, machinery, milking and hay barns. Round, octagonal and rectangular barns. Log, colonial and prairie style barns. Big and small, red, white colored, cedar shingled and metal roofed. There was a barn for every need and occasion. Most featured large rolling doors, single-paned windows and multiple levels. Nooks and crannies were homes to barn owls, oiling cans and farm tools.
Each summer as I drive through familiar farming areas, more barns are gone. The landscape is different and lonely without them. They were a barometer of prosperity, you could tell the economic viability of a farm and a region by how well the barns were kept. Without the icons I now get lost, no more- red barn to remind me to turn left. The yellow windows of milking parlors replaced with vast pole buildings with fiberglass skylights. We need to save the vanishing barns. The National Trust and Successful Farming Magazine have a program called Barn Again! that is helping to save these important architectural icons.
American Barn nz, features timber framed internal panels and all the usual American Barn functionality. American Barns are becoming more and more popular as an alternative to exterior stabling. Arranged around a central passageway, American Barns are fast becoming a favorite in working yards, such as Liveries and Riding Schools. American Barns tend to make for a better, more efficient working environment for horse and work force, keeping everything under one roof and are warm and dry during the winter but cool in the summer.
Barn Style Homes has been designing and building stunning post and beam barn homes for over 40 years. Many clients would like to incorporate subtle barn-style influences into their dream home while others would like their home to look just like a barn. When you get started with us, you will be able to work with one of our talented design teams at Yankee Barn Homes to develop the perfect home for you. We will show you how our kiln-dried Douglas fir post and beam frame allows for a very adaptable interior space. It is an exciting process to design a special dream house and we welcome all your ideas.