Every year, Spring Expo hosts a wide variety of booths and exhibits relevant to Yorkton's consumers. This year, over 150 such displays filled the Gallagher Center, representing everything from clothing to cars to home repairs.
One such booth at the show belonged to Wood Farm Woodworking. The owner of the Kyle, Saskatchewan-based custom furniture manufacturer, Colin Gauthier, says that he has been coming to the show for the past five years, and says that the weekend overall was awesome, with plenty of traffic and sales.
The company builds dining room sets, bedroom furniture and coffee and end tables, the big pieces which work best with solid wood construction.
Gauthier says that it's more than just getting a table or a bedroom set, but getting something custom-made and hand-crafted, which is delivered directly to the customer's door.
"It's personalized service."
It usually takes six to twelve weeks to get a piece made, Gauthier says. Over the weekend, he says that he was trying to sell something people might not have expected when they walked through the doors of the Gallagher Centre.
"Coming to a trade show people aren't expecting to buy solid-wood furniture and get it custom made."
The booth at the Spring Expo showed a small sampling of what Wood Farm offers, and Gauthier says that being custom means they're open to what customers want for their home.
"We pretty much build whatever you want because we are a custom company."
Those interested in seeing what Gauthier does can visit woodfarmwoodworking.ca.
