\n\t\t\t\tEngineering the Icehouse (Source: Geo Davis)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nI’d guess that there’s still about a day of decluttering and organizing before the historic icehouse is once again stripped bare and ready for the next phase of rehabilitation. All of the materials that were removed have been inventoried and relocated to the carriage barn and the new storage container we’ve rented for the duration of the project. Hhhmmm… I forgot to document that. Not fascinating, nor savory eye candy, but I’ll account for the extra storage area we decided to add into the mix to facilitate job site organization, especially when gentle autumn yields to blustery winter. Now, with many of our existing building materials inventoried we can begin to organize a repurposing strategy. That’s right, baked into our recipe for transforming this historic icehouse into a flex workspace, studio, and outdoor entertaining annex is an ambitious vision of creatively reusing and repurposing a decade and a half of leftover building materials, architectural salvage, and lumber grown, felled, milled, and cured on site. I’ll articulate my admittedly romantic vision for how all of this stuff<\/em><\/em><\/strong> will be reimagined into a charming addition to Rosslyn’s menagerie of old buildings.<\/p>\nFor now, I’d like to celebrate the small victory of restoring Rosslyn’s historic outhouse to its metaphorical bones so that we can begin to prepare the interior for footings and crawlspace slab. Cheers to Tony and Pam for tackling the essential but unenviable task of cleaning [ice]house! Thank you.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s going to be an inspiring few months of creative reimaginination, collegial collaboration, and transformation as this handsome historic icehouse gets the loving attention of our rehabilitation dream team. I’ll be introducing the entire cast of characters in the weeks and months ahead, and you’ll have an opportunity to witness up close and personal an historic rehab effectively reinventing a 19th century utility building into a 21st century utility building. This unique collaboration aims not only to repurpose a no longer relevant purpose-built structure into a contemporaneously relevant, utilitarian addition to this remarkable property, but also to reimagine the discarded detritus, the sometimes-elegant-sometimes-eccentric artifacts, and homegrown lumber<\/em><\/em><\/strong>, the\u00a0byproduct of reopening the long neglected meadows west of Rosslyn’s buildings. We’ll include you in the rehab to the extent viable, and we’ll enthusiastically consider all recommendations, advice, and ideas. Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen years after plunging into renovating Rosslyn we are… finally tackling the looong postponed icehouse rehabilitation. Sweet sixteen. (Source: Redacting Rosslyn v2.0 – Rosslyn Redux) In the image above you can see a notable improvement from previous images of the interior of Rosslyn’s historic icehouse. This underutilized outbuilding had become a storage space in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[1106,602],"tags":[53,1397,1398,1396,1395,33,1298,367,1084,782,1345],"coauthors":[976],"class_list":["post-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wonderlust","category-rehab-ad-infinitum","tag-19th-century","tag-architectural-salvage","tag-building-materials","tag-corn-cribbing","tag-engineering","tag-engineering-ventures","tag-icehouse","tag-reinvent","tag-repurpose","tag-reuse","tag-transformation"],"modified_by":"Geo Davis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11989,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/11989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdul2.rosslynredux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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