We were able to make it back to Texas for a bit and we decided to knock out a project we have been meaning to accomplish for MONTHS now! In ONE weekend we built a desk for our new office/recording studio! Check out the video below! But this video also had… MANY, MANY adventures wrapped up inside of it as well… The Desk Build Ever since we moved into our new place in Texas, we’ve been wanting an office space that would be perfect for everyday work (editing, filming, recording,

You may be wondering…”What the heck ever happened to those poor 3 serving boards you put in the dishwasher a while back?! Are they okay? Have you forgotten about them? Will they ever be loved again?!” (And if you missed the post about the boards and the dishwasher, check it out here!) Okay…maybe you guys don’t worry about the status of our serving boards THAT much…but the answer is… I know this hurts to look at. Thankfully this is the first and last time we will put our own s

“You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn A lot of us have heard this quote before. It basically means that the people you spend the most time with end up influencing your life and decisions the most. Because of this, we obviously want to be very intentional about who those 5 people are! If we surround ourselves with negative people who are always doubting us and our goals…chances are…we’ll start to doubt ourselves and our goals. But…you m

I’ve been meaning to write this post since before quarantine even started…so either I need to take some of my own advice OR I simply waited until an even more appropriate time to post this. ….Let’s just say it was the latter, lol Thanks for obliging. This is an issue Davis and I hear a lot about from hobbyists, side-hustlers, and even full time woodworking business owners! Our day jobs are often quite good at providing us with a very structured daily schedule that comes with

We truly hope that this post finds you safe and in good health! These last couple months have been a crazy time for us all (especially the last 2 weeks!!) We’ve seen schools close, people quarantined, and essentially all commercial flight diminish. But perhaps the most relevant effect of the COVID-19 virus has been the sheer amount of people working from home and telecommuting. All of a sudden even those with the most rigid and repetitive of daytime routines are left wonderin

First off – it’s the morning before we leave for WorkbenchCon 2020!! Wooo! In 10 hours we’ll be on the road to Atlanta to meet some awesome new people and hang out with those we met last year. If that’s any of you reading this – we’re stoked to see you! Seriously – I’m chugging this coffee in preparation. If you’ve been following along with our 100 Serving Board series, you know that so far we’ve built 100 serving board/charcuterie boards to sell to realtors as closing gifts.

So here we are…in a new city (a HUGE city)…with our shop all set up and ready to go…but we know NOBODY! This may sound a bit scary or sketchy or intimidating, but it’s the reality of the situation. So where do we go from here? We need to find clients who have the potential to lead to more clients and who have good connections within the community. If you remember the post we did on our Modern Sliding Barn Door, we talked about that EXACT person…realtors!! So, logically, that’

So we’re pretty much all moved into our new place down here and are now figuring out all of the furniture we will need to build for ourselves. As much as I wish we could have fit our couches, coffee table, kitchen table, and entertainment center in the trailer – we sadly could not. Like not even close. Not a single one of those items made the move with us. Instead we sold them all to re-build and re-buy once we got down here to Texas. So we bought a new sectional to go in our

Hi there! This blog post is going to be a little different than our usual “how we built this” or “how we priced this” type content. It’s one we’ve wanted to do for a while, so we’re pretty excited to share it with you!! A lot of you know that we’re “a young couple starting a woodworking business because when we graduated college, typical furniture was WAY too expensive for us – so we decided to build it instead”. That’s the canned Instagram bio story. Well, here’s some more b

It feels SO good to finally be able to say this after a LONG week of re-arranging, sweeping, lifting heavy tools, and building shop furniture… OUR SHOP IS FINALLY DONE!! As much as we wished we could just spend an entire month getting every single detail of this space EXACTLY the way we want it…we kind of had to knock it out as quickly as possible – and here’s why: Every week the shop isn’t finished and we’re not building….we’re not making money!! We quit our full time jobs f

So for the past few months we’ve been talking about how when we moved down to Texas from North Dakota we would be tearing down our entire shop and having to build it all over again. Well, the time has come and here we are. With a garage full of boxes covered in tape and moderately helpful labels. Because we need to get out and start finding clients, we VERY quickly need to get unpacked, figure out an efficient shop layout, and build storage/shelving units! We can’t really mak

Along with all of the fun and exciting things you learn when starting a woodworking business come plenty of lessons that you only want to learn once. …ask us how we know… But seriously! There are quite a few common mistakes that all of us looking to start a business typically walk right into – whether it be somewhat obvious at the time or not. Most of these lessons we learned in hind-sight, but a very few we were able to catch. Which is why we decided to compile them all into

Because we’re secretly amazing artists who just decided to build furniture?? Definitely not…(Ha! let’s be honest we’re both nerds who decided to pick up a pencil). Nope, we got into sketching furniture because we learned that our clients really liked it and it got us all on the same page of what the piece was going to look like in the end! There were no surprises or unexpected elements when it came time for the reveal because the customer had already seen the details going in

We do a lot of talking on our YouTube channel about being efficient with how and what you sell in your woodworking business. Honestly, the majority of that is due to the fact that we (and so many woodworkers like us) have full-time jobs and do this “maker” thing on the side. For example – we don’t have enough time to do a Queen Anne Highboy in a reasonable time period right now that people would want to pay money for! The customer would have to wait MONTHS if not a YEAR for u

So, “Does Price Vary by Location?” It’s the first comment on our videos where we do a price breakdown: “I could never sell for that price in my area… people just don’t want to spend that much” We get comments and DMs asking this underlying question a lot: Does price vary based on your location? So here it is!! I mean, yeah. Price does vary based on location, but there are two main factors: Median income and demand for certain items in different areas. Median income varies. A

This is the finished sliding barn door after it was installed in the new townhome! The realtor we sold it to absolutely loved the modern design. Finding big clients who have big reach within a community is all about connections. It’s all about who you know and who knows you. This sliding barn door sale that we closed was a perfect example of that! The door was for a realtor in our area who was designing, outfitting, and flipping a townhome that was just built in a really cool