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.
![Consolidate Ash and Elm (Photo: R.P. Murphy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.rosslynredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/img_0426-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
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.
![Consolidate Cedar (Photo: R.P. Murphy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.rosslynredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/img_0427-1.jpg?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1)
A tangle of transformed trees, randomly strewn by happenstance and numerous needs, by hasty sorting and buried logic. By diverse needs and accruing timelines.
![Lumber Declutterred (Photo: R.P. Murphy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.rosslynredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/img_0428-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
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.
What do you think?