About

Gray Area Kitchen Provisions started as a pandemic project to stave off boredom. It has become something of it’s own.

My name is Gray. During my formative years, I spent a lot of time wasting time in my father’s wood shop. Fast forward to March 2020 and the Pandemic. I needed a project to keep my hands busy and maintain some sense of normalcy. Deciding that building a live edge slab kitchen island was as good of a place as any to get started, I enlisted the help of my father who has over 5 decades of experience woodworking. My dad is described by others as a serious and stoic guy, but when we work on projects together he opens up and that honestly was the best part of the project. Not wanting to stop, I found other projects to make out of the left over wood. Somewhere along the line, I realized that what I was making up for all the time I wasted away in his woodshop as a teen. I wasn’t going to waste this second chance. And so the symbol and brand you see above is that of the Sankofa Bird, the story of which is based on the African proverb “It is not taboo to go back and fetch that which you have forgotten”. Each piece I make is an opportunity to continue to make one of a kind creations with my father and gets me closer to what I left behind all those years ago. I’m happy to share those creations with you and I hope you are able to find a piece that speaks to you.