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Julie Huber said she’s been doing art since she was 3, and that she went to college and majored in architecture and interior design.
“But I felt very unsatiated,” she said. “I was tired of making someone else’s vision come true. I wanted to make my own come true.”
Braeland Studio (“braeland” means “beautiful land” in Gaelic, Huber explained) is the result of the Hubers’ dissatisfaction. The Monet birdhouses got them going, but now there’s hardly anything decorative that the studio doesn’t turn out.
“After the birdhouses, we started making animals that would go in the garden,” she said.
“We would go into wine stores and take old wooden crates, to the landfill to get wood, even to people’s pig sheds to get antique woods to use.
“We did a couple of garden club shows, and from there we got invited to some very high-end shows in D.C.”
This was when they were running their fledgling business and maintaining their corpo^ rate jobs as well.
It finally got to be too much.
“We did 19 (buyer’s) shows a year and still had corporate jobs,” Huber said.
“And then we went to one wholesale show and got as many orders as we did in all our retail shows in one year. We chucked our corporate jobs and concentrated on Braeland.”
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