Meet the Team

Wylie Woodworks is a family business. We’re not sure there is another way to approach the work when you’re a small business owner, craftsman, and passionate about your work. We put our hearts and souls into it.

Rob Wylie

Rob can show you the piece of furniture that first lit a spark in him to make beautiful and functional furniture. The builder bug bit him early as he worked to figure out how things work as a young child and fell in love with his craft in high school in shop class. A real renaissance man, Rob is a walking dictionary, has a degree in English Literature, another in Fine and Creative woodworking, lived outdoors for four months (a lot of it on crutches or in the snow), and has worked as a locksmith, carpenter, cabinetmaker and fine woodworker. There were a lot of jobs and experiences in between those including his main gig for ten years as the primary caretaker of two children.

Throughout it all, he’s always remembered the feeling of high school shop and wanted to share that feeling of accomplishment and pride with others. Offering Confidence Builders to work alongside clients on new and improved skills brings that dream into today’s reality.

Interests: Podcasts (especially if they involve history and comedy), getting over 20,000 steps in a normal day at home (he does not sit down!), health, architectural details, the perfect tool for each job, perfection in general—especially when it comes to tight joints and perfect corners.
Team Role: Communicating through GIFs, moving heavy things, fixing broken things, building useful things, making beautiful things, researching things, and ensuring other team members eat to avoid the dreaded hanger.
Why he does the work: It speaks to him. It’s an internal drive that he can’t shake.

Denise Neunaber Wylie

Denise has a reputation for being the most demanding homeowner Wylie Woodworks has ever worked with. She makes them work long days and late nights to bring her visions to life. For as long as she can remember, she was sketching project ideas and floor plans. With a long family history of construction and carpentry, she feels most at home with several projects in the works and finds a sweet satisfaction in trying a new skill and seeing an idea go from a sketchpad to reality.

Interests: Exploring creativity, working at the intersection of housing and healthcare, and encouraging people to test their limits and realize the unimaginable. Cheesy love songs, kittens, cats, blankets, and cuddles.
Team Role: Creative director, photography, business planning, creating systems, melding beauty and function, inspiring new approaches, pointing out something that should change when it’s nearly close to finished, leading dance breaks, worrying about waste, hoarding materials, and making Rob repurpose everything and anything.
Why she does the work: Her head is constantly overflowing with new ideas, she enjoys encouraging Rob to share his knowledge and talents with others, and loves helping others bring to create a satisfying space.

Emmeline Wylie

Interests: Tearing down walls, designing spaces, music, art, singing and acting, Gatcha, and anything creative with artistic expression.
Team Role: Calculating fractions, inspiring creativity, demolition, impact driver work, painting, social media consultant, and providing comic relief.
Why she does the work: Emmeline shares “Most of the time my mom is like ‘You know what, you’ve spent enough time doing this, you need to go help your father’ and I don’t have anything better to do.” When asked “you don’t like learning, exploring, or working hard”, Emmeline says, “I mean, I guess”.

Jacob “Jake the Snake” Wylie

Interests: Climbing on ladders, using a wheelbarrow (he prefers them empty), demolition, Minecraft, Lego, and cows.
Team Role: providing extra muscle for the job, crawling in tight spaces, holding the measuring tape, providing great company on trips to the hardware store, and reminding us not to take life too seriously and to learn from our mistakes.
Why he does the work: His parents make him and tell him he will thank them later in life. And he likes getting paid for his work so he can purchase more Lego sets.

Winston Waddlepants Wylie

Interests: Barking, meeting new people and barking, meeting new dogs and barking, playing catch, cuddling, being a shadow, and food— of any and all kind.
Team Role: Emotional support for when projects don’t go as planned and walking accountability partner.
Why he does the work: He doesn’t like to be without his people. Even if it means hanging out with power tools.

Not pictured: 4 cats (Ralph, Junebug, Party Guy, and Tortilla), 2 fish (Debbie Gibson and Slade), and more stuffed animals than should be allowed in a 1600 sq ft house.