BONDED CA Lic. 826698 Lisa and Colin Hayle are siblings who grew up working in a family business and bring a strong work ethic to their trades. Being raised by self-employed parents, they always appreciate what a good quality of life it is to work for oneself. Lisa Hayle As a child Lisa was seldom seen without a pencil in her hand, obsessively drawing. She was always drawn to beauty in nature, particularly the amazing color palette of our world. It was not surprising when she chose to attend The State University of New York, College at Purchase, and receive a BFA in visual Arts in 1988. The program included painting, drawing, photography, and a formal study of color. Her introduction to interior house painting began the following year with a summer job on an all female painting crew in the Boston area. Fortunately, the supervisor was a skilled artisan who taught the essentials for thorough surface preparation, repair, and high-end custom painting. She worked at a variety of jobs until she left Massachusetts for the Bay area in 1993, where she began a teaching career. Lisa had the pleasure of teaching art classes to children during her five years working with them in a variety of settings. The communication skills she honed while teaching she applies today when working with clients. After leaving teaching, she found herself working for another excellent custom painter and loving it. Following an instructive stint of employment with him, she apprenticed at a wood finishing company where she developed the skills she now utilizes to restore antique furniture, interior woodwork and specialty items. Lisa began self employment in 2000, and officially founded Hayle Interiors in 2002. She earned her California State Contractor’s License in 2003 and has painted everything from a delicate stencil design for a baby’s nursery to metallic faux finishes in a fitness studio. In 2004, her big brother Colin relocated to the Bay Area, and brought his impressive array of carpentry skills to the business. These two not only love their work, but love working together. Colin Hayle Colin Hayle was born into a family that owned and operated commercial greenhouses on Long Island, New York’s south-eastern shore, a region famous for its “glass-growing“ culture dating back to the colonial era.  In the classical tradition, he was handed his first hammer by his father, an accomplished journeyman builder in his own right, when he was eight years old and carefully trained to do blemish-free finish-nailing.  Farm maintenance in a climate that gets a decent winter required constant custom-fabrication to solve structural and mechanical issues as they arose. Aesthetic concerns were often included in the objective of making the farm more “complete and beautiful”. Thus, from the earliest possible years, Colin was imbued in challenges, processes and rewards of custom fabrication: Anything that is needed can be made, and making something is an opportunity to imbue function with form. While gaining his AB from Bard College in Annandale, New York [1985] Colin apprenticed with Natalie Lunn and Trevor Vasey in scenic set and prop construction for the Theater. Some of his earliest training in faux-finishing and biomorphic carpentry was received while working with the Theater’s rotating designers-in-residence. During his initial California period, [1985-1993] Colin continued his scenic-building and design training while working professionally in a large San Francisco, California-based set and prop company that built for Film, Theater, Television, Commercial and Retail presentations. He supplemented his residential construction skill-set by working for two years with a California homebuilder doing expansions, additions, decks, roofs, skylights and foundations. Colin began designing and building his own sets for theater as Technical Director of Intersection for the Arts [1990-1992]. Colin began his New York City period [1994-2005] by building custom furniture for commercial display and private residences. He also worked as a set-carpenter for Viacom in any number of music-videos or cable-television shows. Post September 11th, 2001, Colin transitioned to industrial showroom installation and upscale residential renovation including windows, floors and trim. In 2004 he went to work with Joseph Fratesi of Atlas Industries and finally added hi-end custom steel fabrication to his resume, building custom furniture, kitchens and libraries. He has decided to base his mature building years out of the bay-area once again because of the open-mindedness, creativity and boldness of the custom fabrication consuming demographic where a greater degree of collaboration and inventiveness is possible with his client-base:  “People seem to have a more innately spiritual motivation for resolving physical moments in their homes with a customized element or fabrication in the American west than my clients in the east who feel more constrained by formal or space limitations.” Colin works with people of all budgets to realize their own vision, or accepts commissions to create one-of-a-kind pieces or spaces. He works one customer at a time so that each project has his full attention until fruition.     Portrait Photography by Cyndi Downey “My work life would not be fulfilling if my goal were merely to paint as quickly as I can for the most money I can make. Days are richer and more interesting when I am engaged in a job that utilizes my talents and keeps me interested. I thrive on color consulting and interior decorating and take great pride in the work I do - whether I am painting a small room, or creating a faux finish for a splendid room. I am a tradesperson for the love of it. At the end of the work day, I can see and enjoy real results. It is my pleasure to transform spaces and satisfy clients' aesthetic appetites.”                                            --Lisa Hayle