hi there!

I'm Paul and I’ve been tinkering with things since I was a little kid. By age two I destroyed the family’s vaccum by sucking water out of the dehumidifier. By three I was tinkering with gas engines and spending hours on the deck taking apart old lawn mowers. From there I was on to building miniature cars with battery powered motors, model rockets, go-karts and potato launchers.

After college I returned to Decorah and began a decade’s adventure of taking apart and reconstructing 19th century Norwegian-built log houses. To say I was obsessed was an understatement. During this time I disassembled over a dozen old farm houses, rebuilt eight, and also worked in Colorado for a few seasons reconstructing old log buildings on US Forest Service lands.

Short on funds and looking for some stability, I enrolled in a teacher certification program and got a job teaching industrial arts with middle and high schoolers. There I taught cabinet and furniture making, carpentry, electricity, basic engineering, graphic design, and a middle school class building model rockets and miniature motorized cars. What a lot of work!

Today my passion is creating beautiful midcentury and modern furniture using the same midwestern hardwoods the Norwegian-American settlers used to construct their log houses 200 years ago. Take a look at my work, and please reach out if you’re interested in placing an order.