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Harvey Lyman - Founder & Inspiration
1926 to 2002


Our business began in 1972 when Harvey Lyman opened Harvey Lyman & Sons, Inc. The first showroom was located at 1003 Capital Avenue in Hartford where Mr. Lyman specialized in cabinet front refacing. He developed the Company into Southern New England's largest kitchen cabinet front remodeler and we are also the region's oldest continuously operating kitchen business.

Now known as Lyman Kitchens, we have completed in excess of 4,000 kitchen projects.

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Brian Lyman
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Brian Lyman - Designer. Retired 2009.

While attending high school, Mr. Lyman started his career in the wood products and furniture manufacturing industry. He organized and was the owner/operator of his first furniture manufacturing business while attending University of Hartford's Engineering School, Mr. Lyman developed a startup furniture manufacturing, distribution and retail sales concern from inception to international sales of $9 million.

Mr. Lyman has been recognized by national trade publications for his company's growth and development of new wood products manufacturing techniques. Inc. Magazine and its co-sponsors, Merrill Lynch and Ernst & Young, nominated Mr. Lyman Entrepreneur of the Year for 1992 and 1994. The United States Department of Agriculture, Forestry Division, has Mr. Lyman speak at its seminars. His topics of discussion are plant automation and machinery selection for wood products processing.

In addition, Mr. Lyman's furniture designs have been honored internationally by Furniture Design, Furniture Today, and International Home Furniture Center publications. He designed, fabricated, and installed the dining room at the Vice President's official residence in the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.

In 1998, Mr. Lyman joined his father's business and has helped to build Lyman Kitchens into a full service home remodeler, able to offer clients a full array of design, fabrication, and installation services.

Mr. Lyman has varied interests and hobbies. An avid sportsman, he is a U.S. Coast Guard certified Captain and operates a sports fishing boat in New England and Florida waters. Other interests include golf, scuba diving, skiing and most outdoor activities.


Micky Lyman
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Micky Lyman - Retired 2007.

The pleasant voice over the phone, the helping hand for researching product information, the bookkeeper, sales manager, whatever role needs to be filled, she has filled it. Mickey helped her brother Harvey with his business at its inception and continues to be actively involved.


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Slate - Company Mascot - Weimaraner Extraordináire

The "customer experience" is something to which we give a lot of consideration here at Lyman Kitchens. Overseeing that department, Slate greets every visitor personally with a friendly "Woof!" and a wag of her tail.

Senior Project Managers

Our Senior Project Managers make your plans and dreams reality. They take over when the final designs are approved and the products are ordered.

A Senior Project Manager will be assigned to your kitchen. He will coordinate any necessary demolition and all aspects required for a successful installation. From planning schedules to solving problems to finishing touches, your Senior Project Manager will do everything possible to creat your perfect kitchen.

All of our Senior Project Managers have many years of experience in construction management with primarily residential projects, from new construction to extensive renovation and anything in between.








 
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