Our Story

Some businesses start with a business plan. This one started with a single piece of equipment and a bet on hard work.

In 1987, Ryan Kolodejchuk and his wife built Landwork from the ground up in the Snoqualmie Valley. They had no outside money and no shortcuts, just two people who knew how to work and believed that showing up and doing it right was enough. Nearly four decades later, it turned out they were right. What started with one machine became a business built on relationships, reputation, and the kind of craftsmanship that keeps customers calling back year after year.

Ryan didn't just build a contracting company. He built something worth handing down.

Colin Pauley grew up watching his father do the same thing. His dad owned businesses, and Colin watched closely. He absorbed what it meant to carry responsibility, to take pride in something you created, to show up every day because it was yours. That lesson never left him.

A landscaping job and mowing lawns for neighbors helped Colin put cash in his pocket and buy his first car in high school. He went on to Gonzaga University, earned his undergraduate degree in accounting, then his master's in finance, and eventually his CPA license. He built a ~2-decade career on the analytical side, behind a desk and inside conference rooms. He was good at it. But the dream his father modeled for him never went quiet, and he wanted to build something of his own.

The two paths crossed closer to home than either of them expected. Ryan and his wife were fellow Snoqualmie Valley neighbors. Colin and his wife hired Landwork to do their yard years ago, and saw firsthand what Ryan had built. The quality of the work. The way a crew that takes pride in what they do looks different from one that doesn't.

Colin left his corporate life and allowed Ryan to transition out of business ownership and into more family-focused activities. Ryan is still active on a daily basis, and Colin is doing what he loves. He's doing it because he loves the work itself. He loves being outside. He loves trucks and equipment and the satisfaction of transforming a piece of ground into something beautiful and functional. He loves what this business has become, and what it means to build something his own family can be proud of.

Colin and is wife, Whitney, live in North Bend with their two daughters. The same valley, the same neighborhoods, the same community Landwork has been working in for nearly four decades. When Colin talks about building something his family can be proud of, he means a business growing up alongside his kids, in a place he's invested in for the long run.

Whitney is Colin's strategic partner in the business. She brings a finance background herself and years of running her own business, and together they're shaping how Landwork operates and where it goes. The day-to-day operation is Colin's. The vision is both of theirs.

Ryan built Landwork on a foundation of integrity and craftsmanship. That foundation doesn't change with new ownership. It's the reason this handoff happened at all.

For 39 years, Landwork has been the crew King County homeowners call when they want the work done right. That's not changing. We're making sure it continues for another generation of families who want the outside of their home to match what they've built inside.

Same roots. Same standards. We're building something worth handing down.