If you were to take a snapshot of all of our good friends
at some point in time during the day, you'd imagine,
you'd have a friend at the desk or a friend in an office
or friend giving a presentation and then here's us
collecting wood from some salvage yard that's, like, in the middle of nowhere.
A lot of this got started by
us having just to look for design and figuring out how to make furniture that fits a certain,
um, atmosphere or feeling of a house
And that translated into doing that exact thing for entire restaurant
So to, kind of, surround yourself by all of the
smaller details in life that really you enjoy, and it makes --
With it's a restaurant or even if it's someones living room,
you're happier being around that certain thing. So that we'd like to
help create those items for people.
When you sit down with it
the most important part for me is it
is you get to kind of exercise your imagination a little bit.
With all the custom pieces we do as we're building it, we'll come to a problem
and then find a creative interesting way to solve it.
And generally that, that solution that we came to
transforms itself into every another piece of furniture we do and you know,
um, rounding corners on this piece because we got a nick in it.
Now we round every corner
on every piece and things like that to where
our pieces are always evolving and always changing.
The real simple idea is, is the --
Someone says, you know, "I need a bar"
You say, "Okay" and you go check it out and you start talking to him and the initial thought is
I want to make bar out of an airplane,
and you get somebody excited about that. You're excited about that and then
you get an airplane wing
and then what?
And then that's
where the real creativity and interestingness comes in.
How to match that with a really functional and beautiful design that complements everything.
But this, we're still in this constant struggle of trying to, um,
Forecast everything that we're -- should be
I, I, I guess, yeah, forecast but we should know what we're getting into but we really don't usually.
Some of our best pieces are when, uh,
people just say fire away and do whatever you want.
It, it's exciting for us and that's why we build this. We sort of,
we didn't build furniture to even make money from the get-go.
We were making furniture for ourselves.
That, that -- I guess that's why the separation between us and businessmen is we're not doing this --
Well, we didn't start doing this because of any sort of financial gain.
It was all about
the fun of being here and that's --
Yeah, we always joked about if we were to win the lottery I don't thing much would change.
We'd have a nicer shop.
Better tools but I'd be doing the exact same thing I'm doing right now,
so that wouldn't be any different, so.
And I think that's what to me defines norms or something
You do it because you love doing it
and not because you're paid to be here.
And I feel like if, if
you have a, just an ounce of business savvy
if you really love doing something and you're good at what you do
you can make money doing it
and we're gonna make a lot of money where we make enough money to
pay our bills and pay our rent and that's all I ask for us.
Be able to come here every day,
work your butt off, make things you love
and it pays the bills and so it's perfect and it's --
I feel like that's the dream of any artist.
If you actually love what you do and it can pay the bills,
that's plenty.
So, we're very fortunate.