Walk into any restaurant and I can tell you within thirty seconds whether the millwork will last five years or fifteen. It’s in the edges of the plywood. The way joints meet. The texture of the finish on bar
Students do pull-ups on study furniture. I learned this from a manufacturer who builds custom millwork for universities. Not occasionally. Not as a joke. Regularly enough that it affects how they engineer the pieces. The edges get destroyed first.
Coming out of the pandemic, I realized something that should have been obvious all along. We’d been in what I call hibernation. And when we emerged, I saw the industry clearly for the first time in years. Construction had