Ipe bar with aluminum and stainless accents. Floating ipe shelves. And an ebony stained mahogany set of cabinets with brushed aluminum counter for @newrichmondtavern@themaxconstructiongroup
A brief moment between projects. This space will be filled shortly. The tools that find their home will soon be lost within the chaos of the next build. The calm satisfaction we feel now will be replaced with anxiety and self doubt. Those feelings will leave soon too. And this cycle repeats. Why do we do it? Anything else seems like madness.
Snapshot of the original SB workshop in construction while turning out projects. This feels like a lifetime ago. I bought this building thinking the room that is photographed would be a showroom. The plan was to have welding and woodworking in the rear 500sqft (I was naive.) . . . I don't think that plan lasted 2-3 months. I had planned to be there for a long time. We outgrew it in a little under two years. That building was in no way designed or suited for the tasks I asked of it . . . But it did its level best. I think our current office is larger than the total square footage of that entire workshop. It is now a sandwich shop.
Nothing was easy back then. Nothing is easy now. In fairness to haters . . . If it weren't for the haters and the naysers . . . I might have quit. Proving people wrong is a heck of a motivator. Get after it.
14ish years ago, I began posting project pictures on social media. I had no workshop. No garage. I built things on my front porch/deck (weather permitting). Here is a photo of my most judgemental client (wife) evaluating if the height of this project was appropriate. People began asking if I would make things for them. And then . . . The rest is history.
In hindsight, everything is and has been insane . . . But I wouldn't change any of it.
