Values
Empowerment. We provide an open learning environment, encourage our clients’ curiosity, and support our client’s education so that they can engage and build relationships with their homes.
Inclusion. We create and maintain safes spaces for people of color, women, and gender non-conforming folks to access building skills and resources.
Environmental Justice. Research and work with materials and building methods that prioritize people and our environment.
Communication. We take the trust you put in the people you allow into your home seriously. We will keep you updated on and well informed about the schedule, budget, and the items and people that will be in your home.
Chris Landingin Owner / Carpenter
Chris believes that skill sharing connects us to our environment and to each other. Building, making, and repairing skills can help us meet the challenges in our world with confidence and resilience. Everyone should have access to learning these skills.
Being a Filipino trans man in the residential construction and woodworking industries, the skills he has earned have been hard won. It is his life’s work to share his skills through teaching and encouraging others along their own skill seeking paths.
After studying Anthropology and Human Development at UCLA, Chris began his building career in the exhibit workshops of the Smithsonian. Wanting to shift preservation focus from artifacts to relationships and ecologies, he became an intern at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont, where he earned his Sustainable Design Certificate. Chris moved to Seattle and became a residential design/build remodeler in 2012. He has worked in cabinet shops, on remodels from foundation through finish, and managed projects as well as several build teams.
Delaney came to carpentry through studying architecture at UW, focusing on restoration, green building science, urban ecology, and social justice through architecture. After graduation they realized that their love of the built environment could be best expressed through creating and building it.
Delaney's favorite part of being a carpenter is being able to share the skills and knowledge they have acquired with their community and helping create spaces that feel good for the people who live in them.