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About Creations By Brian, LLC

Creations By Brian, LLC didn’t begin by accident. I got my start originally as a family-owned business with my father Mack and my older brother Kevin back in 1991. Our business was named Nuance Painting, Inc. I had just graduated from Herndon High School, and my father was retiring from 32 years in the Army. We needed jobs, and our community needed beautifying. We started out pressure washing and staining houses and decks in the Northern Virginia Area. We worked hard, grew our business, and learned many new skills. We expanded into trim installation, drywall repair, and custom painting.

Nuance Painting was frequently requested as the premier Painting Company in our area. After my youngest brother Jason graduated from high school, he joined the family business as well. We had a good name, a family-built success story, many new trades, customers, and friends from this experience.
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Then I met my future wife. I met Amber in Sterling, VA, and we married in 1995 just 10 months after we first said, "hello". Right before we celebrated our first anniversary, we became parents. We went on to have one more child six years later, and now we have two beautiful children - a daughter and a son. In 2002, we decided to say goodbye to the DC-area beltway traffic and moved back to Amber’s hometown of Muskegon, MI. By now, I had gained over 10 years’ experience in the construction industry while becoming a husband, and father. I knew I couldn’t leave the field even if I had to start over, so we sold our South Riding home, and moved north to become Michiganders. With my father’s blessing, Creations By Brian, LLC was born in the fall of 2002.  

We were fortunate enough to buy a home in Amber’s old stomping grounds of North Muskegon from a local contractor who was amazing, generous, and encouraging. They shared the skill set that I gained with my family at Nuance Painting with everyone they met and our business boomed. Throughout the years we have added employees, vehicles, and expanded our area that we serve. I now get to share my passion with my team, and that gets extended to you, our customers.  

We connect with, serve, and are members of Life Change Church in Muskegon and love where the Lord leads us. Amber started a daycare to be available to our kids, and life just kept getting better, and better. In 2012, we prayed about how to make a difference in children’s lives and knew foster care was the way to do so. Amber closed her daycare, and we applied for a foster care license a short time later. We loved and enjoyed the foster parent journey with its excitement, joy, and challenges for over three years. Our boys were adopted into a forever family and now Amber currently serves on the board of Kids Belong, where all kids belong with great families and a resource for foster and adoptive families. If you want to support this wonderful organization please reach out to Amber. I assist with Kids Belong by volunteering at some of their wonderful events hosted at various churches throughout our community and I am Amber's donation retrieval specialist lol, otherwise known as picking up anything she tells me too.  Amber just wrapped up at The Hope Project as a teen mentor and currently is a member of Woman's Division Chamber of Commerce since 2019 where they fundraise for local charities serving Muskegon County Residents. 


We have a daughter, Mackenzie who graduated from Hillsdale College in May 2018, and married Matt in October of 2021. They just bought their first home and reside in Grand Rapids. Mackenzie is an Office Manager and loves the behind the scene work just like her mom.  Our son, Hudson who graduated from North Muskegon High School in  2020.  He bought a house last year in Saint Louis, the Michigan one!  He is a hands on kind of young man and is learning the Mechanic trade at My Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram in Mount Pleasant.   I have volunteered as a soccer coach over the years, and have had the pleasure to watch some pretty awesome kids grow their skills both on and off the field. Amber and I both serve on the Advisory Board of the CTC Construction Trades program.  We offer input for administration to tweak curriculum and encourage students about careers in the trades.  We do mock interviews and even hire students on a 'intern' basis.  Due to the growth of Creations by Brian LLC, Amber is now full time working behind the scenes as my office manager, and we will be celebrating 30 years of marriage in May 2025.

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