The Woodsmith Story: The Beginnings
The Woodsmith Story: The journey of a boy who loved to build
The Woodsmith Story begins as any would; there once was a young boy who loved to build. Now where it goes from there is the interesting part. Mostly because I am one of those rare and lucky people who knew what I wanted to do from the first moments I could remember. You could say I was born to build and have been immersed in it my entire life. From the first tool set, I got at age 3 to my endless fascination with every part of a construction project from then on. I have been haunted by building homes my whole life and have loved every minute of it.
The dream
It didn’t start out by running a construction company at all. It actually started with my parents. My dad was an Architect to be and a cabinet maker by trade from England, and my mother a true believer in building your dreams. These two ambitious soles spent a lifetime, even to this very day, building their dream homes. Now, this provided the perfect environment for me to feed my obsession. I actually never lived in a finished home until I was around 25 years old. I took a while to adjust to the idea that each weekend or piece of free time was not necessarily meant to do more work around on the house.
Born on a construction site
I was raised in an ongoing construction site. When telling the Woodsmith story, one would be correct in saying that I was in the wrong place if my love wasn’t building. I actually have baby pictures of my first crib, which was a wheelbarrow 🙂
There is something magical about building. Given you start with nothing more than a pile of sticks and end up with someone’s home. My enthusiasm for building, even with living in it 24 hours a day, could not be easily satisfied. As I started to get older, I would always hound my father to come to some of the other sites he was working on with him and see what those guys were doing. I can remember seeing guys framing a roof and walking over the wall-top plates like they were walking on solid ground. I knew from watching them work that I wanted to do it myself someday. It wasn’t long after that I went out and started working for other builders as well as my father. Sucking up every piece of knowledge and experience I could talk myself into. I wanted to learn everything about building there was to know and that desire still remains to this very day. I still want to always learn more about building better to be a better builder. The Woodsmith story has always centred around my enthusiasm and passion for building and has always been my guide in learning whatever I possibly can. It never ceases to amaze me how much there is to know and how we always get better at what and how we do it.
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