It’s easy to have a dream for a new lifestyle; it’s a little harder to marry it to reality and actually generate income while enjoying it and staying loyal to your original concept.
My wife and I had a dream of selling handcrafted furniture. After completing a full-time course at the Centre for Fine Woodworking in Nelson and working for other fine craftsmen, we moved south from Nelson to Arrowtown and set up a woodworking venture.
People often ask us about how we made the crucial decisions in those early days – such as where to set up shop and how to allocate our limitedbudget for machinery.
