By David MacDonald
on small projects for friends and people in my family. I was one of those kids running up the driveway after school, but I wasn’t grabbing my hockey stick or getting on my bike. I was grabbing the sandpaper and getting back to work on a night stand or an end table.”
WORK WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT F or Abe, quality control comes down to one thing, and it happens to be the thing he’s best at. “I keep every element of production under one roof. There’s no detail that I don’t personally attend to and I’ve got to say, it’s a bonus that I get paid to do this,” Abe laughed. “Working with my hands, working with wood has never really been work to me. I tell people it’s part of my DNA and honestly, that’s what it feels like.” “Walls Cabinetry Plus delivered everything we dreamed our kitchen would be.”
LIVING THE DREAM
By the time he was 14-years old, Abe was an apprentice, working part-time for a kitchen cabinet manufacturing company owned by a Mennonite friend. “I spent the next 10 years honing my skills with several Mennonite kitchen companies,” he said. “At first, I was strictly assembly and installation but it wasn’t long until I was taking on more responsibilities, like spray finishing, design, foreman, and eventually subcontractor. I put everything into my pursuit of this trade and eventually I came to realize that what I really wanted was a business of my own, something that I could shape. And here we are.” Abe explained that after more than a decade of building custom, solid wood cabinets as a family-owned business, his work and reputation speaks for itself. “Up to now, our customers have done most of our advertising for us. We believe word-of- mouth marketing suits our needs quite nicely considering our range is within six Nova Scotia counties, but we’re happy to be reaching out to more people. We want people to know that our primary focus is making your vision a reality.” “Working with my hands, working with wood has never really been work to me. I tell people it’s part of my DNA and honestly, that’s what it feels like.” SPREAD THE WORD
MAYBE IT IS IN HIS DNA
“I grew up a Mennonite, so you can imagine that I’ve been around woodworking since before I can remember,” Abe explained. “When I was young, I couldn’t stay away from my Uncle Henry’s solid wood furniture business. The time I spent there really had an impact on me. I kind of took after him – and other people I knew – and started taking
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • MARCH 2017
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