It all started back in the spring of 2020. During the Covid-19 lockdown, I began woodworking as a hobby to help end my boredom. Shortly after, I discovered epoxy and started experimenting with it on small projects. When I showed my grandfather, Dave Perrenoud, a highly skilled carpenter, he began mentoring me and teaching me the skills he had acquired over his lifetime.

Soon after this, I left for college while my parents started building Airis’Ele, our family-owned and operated tasting room in the Texas Hill Country. They needed help with the construction, so I traveled home on weekends to assist in building the tasting room. My father, Bret Perrenoud, commissioned me to create a live edge epoxy table for the upstairs conference room.

After a few months of the tasting room being open, the table attracted a lot of attention. Seeing this, I had the idea to start a business. I began by completing custom projects for friends and family. In the spring of 2024, I was able to clean and start remodeling my grandparents' old dairy barn in the Texas Hill Country to turn it into a full shop.

An amazing opportunity also presented itself in March 2024 – an industrial-size CNC router. Pursuing a degree in manufacturing engineering technologies taught me the skills needed to learn and run this machine. By the summer of 2024, I finally settled on a name for the business: Westin Design Co.