I Started Print Haus by Accident. Then I Fell in Love with It.
Here's the honest truth: Print Haus wasn't supposed to be a business. It was a side project. Something to keep the lights on while I was heads-down building a different app — something that would be "the real thing." The printer was just supposed to pay for coffee.
I started simple. A few tool organizers, some shelf brackets, a lamp shade I designed one afternoon just to see if I could. I posted them. People bought them. I printed more. And somewhere in the middle of all that — between the hum of the printer at midnight, the smell of fresh PETG, and the back-and-forth with customers who actually had opinions about exactly how they wanted their drawer inserts — I realized something.
This doesn't feel like work.
I've had jobs. Real ones. The kind where you watch the clock and count the days to Friday. This was the opposite. I was losing track of time in a good way. Designing something at 10pm, printing it overnight, holding the finished piece in the morning — there's a satisfaction in that loop that's genuinely hard to describe.
Every customer order is a puzzle. Someone needs a holder for a very specific wrench. Someone else wants a lamp that matches their desk but can't find it anywhere. A small shop needs 200 identical bin labels. Each one is different. Each one requires you to actually think. And when you hand someone something you made and they go "this is exactly what I needed" — that doesn't get old.
Why Texas? Why now?
I'm from here. I like making things for people I can actually picture using them — people who work with their hands, who have garages full of tools, who want their home to look intentional without paying furniture store prices. That's Texas to me. That's the customer I understand.
And the timing — 2023 felt like the right moment. 3D printing had finally crossed a threshold where the output quality matched the promise. Materials had improved. Machines were more reliable. You could actually hand someone a functional print and not apologize for it.
Where we're going.
Print Haus is still growing. We're adding new products regularly, building out coaching and classes for people who want to start their own print businesses, and slowly expanding what "custom" means — more materials, more finishes, more complexity. The app I was building when this started? Still on the backburner. And I'm genuinely okay with that.
If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. If you've ever bought something from us, or sent us a weird design request, or just been a positive part of what this thing is becoming — thank you. You're the reason it doesn't feel like work.
— The Print Haus Team