By Michelle Williams
Stories. Everybody has one. Down through the centuries, the art of storytelling has been practiced as a way to memorialize history, to entertain, and to enlighten. In speaking with Brett Porter, owner/operator of, and builder/craftsman at, Porter Furniture, one can immediately see he appreciates a good story.
Since a young age, Porter has been around craftsmen working with wood. His father had a small woodworking hobby shop in the family home basement, and it was there Brett’s hobby of crafting wood into furniture began. Fast forward a few years and Porter found himself in a new season of life, which included the need for furniture. When a friend gifted him an old barn, with his father as a mentor he put his knowledge to use and built his own furniture, finding not only a new passion, but new purpose: melding personal stories with the story of reclaimed wood.
