In 2017, Lyle Zimbler was a hobbyist woodworker when his wife’s response to a Facebook post on Oak Park Working Moms provided an outlet to a new career. A woman posted looking for recommendations for table refinishing, and Betsy Zimbler recommended her husband.
After landing his first paying job with the help of Facebook and Betsy, he got to work rebuilding the table. He recalls, “After I rebuilt the base, I called the owners to talk about the stain color for the top, and discovered the wife grew up in our house on Home Avenue, which was a neat connection. It sent a flare up in my head: this is a legitimate thing that I can do.”
Those moments of connection between customers and their wood furniture and doors that need refinishing has been keeping Zimbler going for almost 10 years, through two moves, both within Oak Park and to the family’s last landing spot in South Bend…