The Artisan Chronicles
What goes on in the mind of an artisan? How does he work? How does she run the business? Read on. It’s pretty interesting.
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- Steve Quillian
Fthmp…TING! Next door to our window museum studio in Tampa, a baseball coaching enterprise moved in. We hear the unmistakable sound of someone making their proper sacrifice, putting in the time, giving...
- Steve Quillian
Window Craft just may be the perfect old house trade to study, as it encapsulates practically all the skills needed to properly service every historic house community across the United States. It...
- Steve Quillian
Desperation. With fewer people entering the trades, finding someone qualified to address common historic home issues is increasingly complicated. Historic wood windows, still a numbering in the millions, are serviced by a...
- Steve Quillian
Wood Window Makeover’s Artisan Army will have a new home base soon. With a primary focus on archetypal window craft, Steve plans for this space to serve more than just our core...
- Steve Quillian
Wondering how I lead the people on my San Antonio team today…. Are they making progress? Yes. Am I making progress? Yes. And maybe. I don’t know. What I want to know...
- Steve Quillian
What do you want for Christmas? Maybe it’s a black swan on the back of a unicorn. I’m going to be glad to spend a few weeks at home with my family....
- Steve Quillian
The business is so simple, yet so complex. Any complexities with the windows have all been removed, making the windows so simple to work on, yet finding the simple tools, materials and...
- Steve Quillian
Window restoration functions best as a team effort. After the initial set up, what I call the Mechanical Makeover, the work naturally splits into the the other two aspects of the work,...
- Steve Quillian
Having been thinking for years about what kind of person I need to hire to help with the work at Wood Window Makeover, I am starting to come to some conclusions. Hire...
- Steve Quillian
Do you ever watch the TV show Survivor where they throw a bunch of people into a wilderness to compete in various challenges? Yet before any of the games, one of the...
- Steve Quillian
(Entire unedited and candid discussion between Steve and Lynda about the state of the business and why she’s leaving Wood Window Makeover.) Things couldn’t be better at Wood Window Makeover. We have...
- Steve Quillian
Ownership. What does it really mean to own a business? What does it really mean to own anything for that matter? Yes I started it. Yes, the rights to it are mine....