Rosslyn Redux

Reawakening a home, a dream and ourselves

Rosslyn Waterfront, Adirondack Chairs (Source: Geo Davis)

In August 2006 my bride and I purchased Rosslyn, a circa 1820 historic home and boathouse on Lake Champlain. We appointed ourselves general contractor; assembled an unlikely team of carpenters, tradesmen, and artisans; and set out on a quest to fuse historic rehabilitation with green design.

Four years later we finally finished. (Sort of. Except for everything that we’re still working on…) We’d blown our original timeline and budget by 400%, we’d tested our marriage again and again, and we’d sometimes-enthusiastically-sometimes-begrudgingly adapted to our new and improved North Country life.

This is where we chronicle the reawakening of an historic home. And ourselves. And our dreams. Simultaneously!

Pull up an Adirondack chair and stay awhile…