I've always love home DIY projects... it's just in my blood. My grandpa was always hammering, cutting, tinkering, away at something at his house. I grew up admiring that and desiring to be just like him.
Everytime I go somewhere and I see a unique piece of furniture I look at it and I say, "I can build that," and I would, then, one day, someone said to me, "why would people buy stuff from you that is already at a store?.... with that I let my creative juices flow and I purposed not to make the things I see, but to make the things I see better, more unique, more useable.