Grandpa's (Furniture Business)

Most businesses in Ghana are located right next to the roads. Roads are lined with every type of business that you would expect to see. We didn't stop and visit very many as most were not overly interesting. Still, I want to include a few and here's another one. The business name (or Merchant's name) was just "Grandpa's". They sold furniture. I was never sure if I met Grandpa as everyone working there looked too young to me, but I like the name. The business was in a thin strip of land between the road and the jungle.

Below is the "workshop" area, just to the right of the photo above. They certainly had some nice pieces of wood and I'm sure it was all hardwood. Their tools were simple.

The mid-production area is below. They had a decent sized work crew and they were producing quite a bit of furniture.

Now for a look at some of their finished work, below. All of their work is unique, nothing is done by a template.

They even had some advanced creative work being done in their shop and it was all impressive.