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tivb.” . “And there’s no comparison with the quality,” maintained Lyman. At Country Cupboards, only solid wood is used* with a special emphasis on “honest joinery.” By “honest joinery,” Lyman explained that he and Haase used mortise and tenon joints in building cabinets, giving the finished product a minimum life expectancy of 25 years. On the other hand, said Lyman, commercial cabinetry has a built in, planned obsolescence. Massproduced cabinets—held together with glue, staples and nails driven through the wood at an angle— begin to fall apart after only a few years.
Country Cupboards is one of little Washington’s newer businesses. Gene Lyman came to the county from Alexandria to do carpentry for Peter Kramer and after working there, found that his interests lay in furniture making, not carpentry. When Kramer’s business went bankrupt, Lyman had to decide between “going to the city to get work or starting my own.” He began Country Cupboards in January, 1974.
HAASE, too, originally was a carpenter for Kramer, stumbling on a job there after he arrived from North Carolina. “It was not a driving force in my life to be a carpenter,” said Haase, rather it was something that evolved almost by accident. He bought into a partnership with Lyman after leaving Kramer.
Both partners acknowledged a debt to Peter Kramer. If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t be here,” said Lyman. Both also agreed that there’s no tension between the businesses, two competitive wood working shops in a small town. “Peter is very strong on design... He’s mostly interested in furniture. We’ll do anything,” Lyman commented.
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