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By CINDY MAHAN * Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
Julie and Lance Huber quit their high-powered corporate jobs in 1991 In order to pour their energies and tal'ent into their two year-old company, Braeland. •
Living in a renovated Sears catalog house on a 21-acre estate in the •hunt country of Maryland, Mrs. Huber worked as an interior designer and architect, with clients ranging from Jaw offices to very affluent homeownfers.
Mr. Huber was in the publishing business doing real estate data information. They met on the job, found they had similar interests, including" history, and have now been married Tor 16 years. They also share a deep interest in the countryside of Scotland, England and France.
In the late ‘80s, they used to make birdhouses and give them to friends as gifts. “People said we should sell them,” said Mrs. Huber. So they started dqing craft shows.
Now they have stopped making birdhouses, but have expanded the business and market 150 products. They do a few retail shows and seven national and international wholesale . shows annually, and may do one in England this year.
Mrs. Huber has degrees in fine ;arts and interior design from the Maryland Institute of Art and is selftaught in architecture. She started painting and drawing when she was three years old. When she quit her last ’ architectural job, she stopped painting for ten years. “I was drained,” she $aid. * But she’s definitely back to painting now. She and her husband’s very successful wholesale business, Braeland (Celtic for “beautiful land”),
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