I'm Ernest. I started this company because I wanted to slow down.
For most of the 2000s I worked on production crews — five houses a week, in and out, hose 'em down, two-tone everything in beige. I learned a lot. I also learned what corners I didn't want to cut anymore.
In 2011 my wife Lori and I bought the place on Smith Road. I painted our own house first, took my time with it, and a neighbor asked if I'd do hers. That neighbor told another neighbor. Fourteen years later we still get most of our work from somebody pointing at their friend's living room and asking who did it.
I run the shop. Lori does the books. My brother-in-law Travis has been with me since 2017. We bring on one or two seasonal helpers from late spring through October. That's it — that's the whole company.
If you call between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., you'll probably get me. If you don't, leave a message and I'll call back the same day.
— Ernest Burkholder
