Category: Rehab Ad Infinitum
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Hardscaping an Oasis
I’m overdue for an update on the icehouse exterior — from deck, hot tub, and grass court to sunken patio, gardens, and fire pit — at least in part because this summer’s weather has stalled many of these projects to the point of discouraging doldrums. But today I’d like to offer a glimpse at our…
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Return to Re-railing Boathouse Gangway
After a hiatus spanning many months — more than half a year — Supi and Peter return to re-railing the boathouse gangway, and after three days their progress is encouraging. And the photograph above Peter is installing the post sleeves that he fabricated offsite last autumn and early winter. The railings and balusters are fabricated…
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Cushion Cubby Complete
In quarters as diminutive as Rosslyn’s icehouse, when space is at a premium, it’s necessary to get creative with each book and cranny. Under a staircase, for example, we now have a cushion cubby for storing deck items during inclement weather. This wasn’t originally in the plan. I was trying to squeeze bookshelves into all…
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Loft Guardrail
Three and a half weeks ago I extolled Rosslyn’s perennially perfect poppies as a timely analgesic to the inconvenient-but-overdue termination of an habitually untimely, underperforming (I’m being generous!) subcontractor who had been charged with custom cabinetry, stairway railing, and loft guardrail. Here’s a snippety flashback. Let’s assume that “cocky pop” is the body double for…
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Pam’s Poem
This morning after clambering up onto the icehouse roof not once but six times in a row — installing Starlink satellite dish, rooftop rack, and four surprisingly heavy ballasts — I headed inside to work on the stairway railing. In the coffee bar I discovered a surprise: Pam’s poem with a bottle of bubbly. I…
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Cherry Cabinet
Susan visited an antique dealer last week to inquire about their interest in an antique cherry cabinet that has furnished my study for a decade and a half. Purchased from a local dealer who was liquidating her collection, including various pieces from the Noble estate — or so she informed us at the time, though…
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Tiho’s Site Visit
This past weekend, Susan and I hosted our friend, Tiho Dimitrov, the Santa Fe based architect with whom we’ve collaborated on several projects over the years including ADK Oasis Lakeside and Rosslyn’s icehouse rehabilitation. Tiho’s site visit to both properties was an exciting culmination, especially as we glide into the home stretch of icehouse v2.0…
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One Year of Daily Journaling!
Eureka! A year ago I set out on a personal quest to post an update each day without fail for one year, journaling deep into our Rosslyn story in the hopes of ascertaining what comes next. Today we celebrate 365 consecutive daily updates starting on August 1, 2022 and ending yesterday, July 31, 2023. What…
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Move-In Begins
At last, icehouse move-in begins! We’re not yet 100% finished with the icehouse rehab, but we’re close. Really, really close. Inside, at least. Outside, less so. Plenty of hardscaping and landscaping still in the works. But the interior is super close. I need to put the finishing touches on my loft cabinetry, and Peter needs…
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Ceiling Fan Reveal
Aerial photography fascinates, in part, I think, because it’s slightly superhuman. An omniscient perspective, removed from the familiar, human scale world we inhabit. For a moment we enjoy an eye in the sky vantage that augments our reality. This ceiling fan haiku explores another perhaps tangentially related experience of wind — both natural wind and…
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Drawers and Cabinet Doors
As we advance upon the finish line — sometimes hurtling, sometimes inchworming — each of us is exercising our agility, stretching our purviews, and adapting to the evolving needs of the icehouse rehabilitation project. And, with the interior almost complete, I tip my gratitude cap to Peter whose been fabricating drawers and cabinet doors on-site…
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Hydroseeding Icehouse Environs
A quick post this evening to thank Bob and Eric for hydroseeding the soon-to-be-grass lawns around Rosslyn’s icehouse. It’s been a disruptive 10+ months during rehabilitation, and given the site work and construction staging, debris, etc. we’ve become accustomed to mud, mud, mud. But today — at looong last — we begin the regreening. Hydroseeding?…