Walt Primrose: Primrose Woodworks

“I decided to move back to Rhode Island.

I saw more opportunities for the type of work I wanted to do. You know, just bigger and better things out here. Rhode Island is pretty affluent. I don't fall into that category, but it's a place where they value the work I wanted to do. I figured I needed to be in a place like this to flourish in that line of work.”

∙ Walt Primrose

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Walt Primrose, the owner of Primrose Woodworks. The transition from working with his father-in-law as a contractor to becoming an independent craftsman wasn't easy at first—it took a lot of time and effort for Walt to get his business off the ground. But now, nine years later, it seems like all that hard work paid off; Primrose Woodworks is still going strong!

“I would literally drive around and find job sites that were houses being built. I'm 10 minutes from the ocean here, and along the shoreline, there’s one giant monstrosity house after the next, they're all over the place with constant building going on.