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ROBERT KETTELL | ROBERT KETTELL CONSTRUCTION
“I was just five years old,” Robert recalls, “and I remember him stepping down from a massive earth-moving machine that looked as big as a house to me. He reached into his pocket and handed me a carpenter’s pencil. That was it— that was the spark. That one moment shaped everything. If he hadn’t handed me that pencil, I don’t know where I’d be today.” was more than a gesture. It was an invitation—
—into a world of tools, grit, craftsmanship, and integrity. As a teenager, Robert and his wife would spend weekends showcasing Kettell’s model homes during open houses in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His parents had built three homes with Robert Kettell—one of them the very first in the subdivision—so Robert literally grew up inside his mentor’s work, watching more than a hundred homes rise from the dirt.
"”That was it—that was the spark. That one moment shaped everything. If he hadn’t handed me that pencil, I don’t know where I’d be today.”
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