For Bay Area Kitchens owner Randy Godeau, what started as a hobby building furniture turned into a successful, nearly 30-year-old business.
In the early 1980s, Godeau worked for a big corporation and had a side business building furniture. At the time it was just a hobby that supported itself; he would use the money he made to buy new equipment to build more furniture.
Godeau was laid off in 1983, and at that time he realized he had all the tools to transform his hobby into a living. Eventually just building furniture was no longer financially sustainable, so he started building kitchen cabinets. Not long after that, Godeau was asked by an established cabinet company to start installing cabinets for them.
“The very first time I saw their cabinets, I just fell in love with them,” he said. “I thought this is the way to do it.”
