This is something you may want to add to your bucket list, a new home from Yankee Barn Homes in Grantham, NH. As a boy, I built the most elaborate buildings with my Lincoln Logs, and walking through a factory where skilled woodworkers build homes one at a time by hand was something I will never forget.
A tour of Yankee Barn’s factory starts at their state-of-the-art computer system that allows customers and Yankee Barn sales and engineering staff to create these totally custom homes featuring panels and timber framing.
Then it was off to see the factory. The first building is more workshop than a production floor. Several people work on wall panels, while others work on custom specialty items like cupolas.
Any tour of Yankee Barn includes what I like to call “Santa’s Workshop,” where Fir beams weighing hundreds of pounds are stacked like kindling, each waiting their turn to be measured, hand-cut, routered, numbered and stained, knowing they will soon be part of a cabin in ski country, a rural residence or even a housing project.
What makes this my choice for prefab “Home of the Week” is the absolutely beautiful work done by skilled craftsmen before the house is shipped to your lot.
Enjoy these pictures of their Downing model.
Gary Fleisher, Contributing Editor
