We are a culmination of everyone we have met in life. Carpentry and painting have always been apart of Tom's life. He spent much of his childhood with his uncle on a small farm learning utilitarian ways of life and listening to stories about the great depression. Tom's uncle taught him to build and refinish furniture when daily farm life was not pulling him to fix machinery, plumbing, improve irrigation, mend fences or tend to the garden. "When things aren't working they are more like puzzles to be solved", Tom says. Tom went to school for commercial photography and set design. He spend 17 years building sets and contracting photography assignments. It was then time for a life change. Tom sold his business and traveled around the country in search of a new life direction. Along the way Tom began working for remodeling and painting companies. The skills needed were similar but without the high intensity stress that goes with committing to photographically document a moment that only happens once. This cross country journey is where he discovered his love for carpentry and painting. Like with photography Tom saw the positive impact he was having on people's lives. The more he helped people fixing things around their home the less stressed they became. What Tom enjoys most is working with my hands building or repairing things and making what is already there better while enhancing people's lives by assisting with the maintenance of life.