“IF IT’S MADE WELL, IT QUIETLY SHAPES HOW YOU LIVE. THAT’S THE PART THAT FEELS REALLY SPECIAL”
—Karla Weis | Operations Manager
“Before I was born, he was working in the hospitality industry but had a background in art - and his dad was an engineer. My mom told him, ‘You can’t be in hospitality and raise a family at the same time.’ So he went back to his roots: art, restoration, figuring out how things work, and making things.” At first, her father worked as a kind of one-man fix-it craftsman around Asheville, North Carolina.
That devotion to timeless quality became the company’s signature. Over the years, word spread among Asheville’s architects and builders about the small workshop that could make anything - and make it last. “It’s just the breadth of what we do,” Karla reflects. “We’re not just a cabinet shop. We’re not just a door shop. We do a lot, and we have this wealth of knowledge.” Prestigious commissions followed - windows for historic lighthouses like Bodie Island and Apostle Islands, and intricate restorations for heritage sites. Those early projects established not just a business, but a philosophy: that everything made should be worthy of the places that outlast us. “Our roots are in preservation and restoration,” Karla says, “and that’s still the heart of what we provide. We want to make pieces that will stand the test of time - just like those old homes did.” Building a Reputation on Reverence
CRAIG AND KARLA WEIS | FOUNDER & OPERATIONS MANAGER
But the city’s historic bones soon called to him.
“There’s just so much beautiful old architecture here,” Karla says. “He started doing restoration and preservation - windows at the Manor Inn, the Grove Arcade, and completely recreating the massive doors of the Basilica of St. Lawrence back in the 1990s.”
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