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I recently had a customer call me up and ask me to give him a proposal on a barn. He said he just wanted something simple and easy. After explaining to him that we are a hand crafted shop using traditional joinery and that we don’t do anything “cookie Cutter” he asked me ” why do I care if it’s hand crafted?” I explained to him that he may not care if it is and that if a simple barn with half lap joinery was what he was looking for there was certainly nothing wrong with that, it’s just not what we do, so we may not be the company that would best fit his project. We hung up and he decided he was going to get a price from a company that would provide him with a “kit”. Two days later he called me back and asked for more information about what we do because all of the “kits” that he found were of a set grid and could not be modified and did not really fit his needs. I explained to him that we would be happy to design a frame for him to fit both his needs and budget and we would configure his new barn any way he would like. We signed a contract and built his new barn to his specifications. In the end he thanked me for walking him through the process and he was very happy with his new barn. Yes, it did cost him a little more money than the “kit” but he did not have any wasted space and the layout was exactly what he was looking for.







