As the icehouse rehabilitation reaches its conclusion and nearly two decades of Rosslyn carpentry dwindle down to the final acts, it’s time to declutter the carriage barn that has served as a lumber and architectural salvage warehouse, workshop, and staging area. It’s time to consolidate and organize miscellaneous stacks of lumber. It’s time to make space and make way.
This sprawl of timber inventory, a mix of ash, elm, cedar, and locust, had devolved into giant nests or oversized pickup sticks mounds. So many assorted widths, lengths, and thicknesses. Wood-grained puzzle pieces with tangled backstories. Each board felled, milled, stickered, stacked. Many re-milled and re-stacked. Planed and dimensioned. Used. Remaindered.
A tangle of transformed trees, randomly strewn by happenstance and numerous needs, by hasty sorting and buried logic. By diverse needs and accruing timelines.
No longer. Consolidation complete; decluttering continues. Ordering ongoing, like with like, streamlining storage space, ensuring efficiency. Harmony reigns again. Maybe not again. Maybe for the first time.
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