Team Spotlight: Chris Hasler, Project Manager
The utility tool in our tool belt, Chris Hasler can do it all, and with a smile. Chris is genuinely one of the most affable, kindest, most authentic, honest guys you’ll ever meet and he literally knows how to build your home from the ground up. From framing to tiling to finish carpentry to siding, Chris knows just about everything there is to know about building a home from personal experience. We thank our lucky stars every single day that Chris agreed to take off the tool bags and start managing some of our biggest projects.
Chris grew up in Encinitas, CA and is a self-described surf rat, skater punk, turned snowboard bum, turned construction jack-of-all-trades. After moving to Bend in 1989, to “snowboard for one season,” Chris worked nights and lived the sweet life of an early 20’s snowboard bum for a few years. Chris eventually used a background in metal working and welding, along with some exposure to building Japanese pole style houses in Southern California, to begin a career in new construction. He started framing houses with a team of subcontractors before he finally decided to start his own company in 1999. Through his work building and designing homes, doing remodels, and building his own small business, Chris came into contact with Mark and Josh Wilhite of Copperline Homes.
Chris’ professionalism, his attention to detail, his knowledge of the building process from start to finish, and his easygoing personality made him an obvious fit for Copperline. He brings a unique perspective to the management side of building homes with his own experience and his ability to relate to and understand the roles of all of the subcontractors it takes to complete a home. Chris is a team player. He is always trying to figure out how to do more to help Josh and Mark, the Copperline team and the clients for whom he is building homes. “I want to build the highest quality product we can with honesty and integrity. The one thing I love about Copperline is the transparency. I just love the honesty and integrity that Copperline has and their dedication to building a quality product. That’s something that I’ve always felt and always aligned with.” When you talk to Chris about building a Copperline home, it’s easy to see that his heart is in it and he really loves what he does, “I love being part of these amazing projects and having amazing designers that design really cool homes that are unique. Being able to be a part of that and seeing a client’s dream home come to fruition is the best.”
As much as Chris loves building beautiful homes, he’s still that surfer (less rat), skater (not so punky anymore) and snowboarding lover (can’t call this hardworking guy a bum!). Chris and his wife Erin, who owns her own small business in Bend, have two incredible middle and high school-aged kids. When they aren’t in the mountains, they enjoy international travel (most recently to Morocco!) to find and curate unique objects to sell in Erin’s store, enjoy time at their vacation rental on the Oregon coast, ride their motorcycles together, surf, listen to live music, and make and eat delicious food and drink. “The times when I find the most joy are when I see my kids find joy. Snowboarding with my kids. Going to the beach and pushing my kids into waves on surfboards and watching them stand up for the first time… dropping in off of Summit on a bottomless powder day, that’s the closest I get to a spiritual experience.” In a perfect future Chris would love to sell everything, take only what he and Erin could fit on their two motorcycles and ride across the country, but still, when he circles back home after his adventures, he insists that he’d be back building houses. It’s the creativity and ability to make something that he’d miss, “Getting a beautiful home to come out of the ground to a finished product that somebody lives in that’s going to stand for 100 years… that’s a really cool thing to be a part of.”