Tired of shitty furniture? Me too. 

That's why I created Inclusive Design. 

Like all great inventions, Inclusive Design was born out of necessity. Attempting to furnish my home with champagne taste and a beer budget caused me to stumble into a paradigm that shocked me: 

Why is furniture so expensive, or such low quality? Why are my only options huge name-brand box stores that have no personal connection to the pieces they make? What happened to handmade furniture? And why has everyone settled for Swedish particleboard? 

Over time, I realized that I really only had one option: to make the pieces that I wanted. This was troublesome, considering that I had no woodworking experience. I was fresh out of the Marine Corps, disoriented after being medically retired from the only community I had known in my adult life. For the first time, I had no idea what my next step was in life, and I felt like I had no direction. 

Restoring and fixing old furniture became a therapeutic avenue, helping to solve my home furnishing problem while giving me an outlet. Slowly, this turned into building pieces for my own home, and then friends', and then clients'. I continued to search for the answer to my questions, both in life and career, but kept coming to the same conclusion: the answer doesn't exist yet. In addition, I began to uncover more questions, and more problems within the furniture-making community, to include the discovery of an almost insurmountable set of obstacles holding people like me back from pursuing this path.

Still, I decided that I was too invested to give up-- whether it be precognition or stupidity, I'm not yet sure. That's where you come in.

With cautious optimism and trepidation, I present to you Inclusive Design: my answer to the historically exclusive world of handmade and custom furniture.

This isn't about me, this is about you-- about giving you the option to spend your money not at a big box store, that will swipe your card enthusiastically without regard to how hard you worked for every cent; about giving you the option to have exactly what you want in your home, not an approximation; and eventually about connecting you with more furniture-makers like me who just need a chance to show you what they can do. 

Everyone deserves to have beautiful furniture in their home, no matter their budget. With your help, Inclusive Design can answer that call.