My wife and I have had great experiences at the AR Workshop in garland. Highly recommend them to all our friends and family. Definitely was a great time!The Owners and employees were very helpful showing us how to create our projects and they provided excellent customer service.Don’t forget to Grab your favorite bottle of wine and beer and go enjoy a great experience. BYOB

Highly recommend the AR WORKSHOP GARLAND location. Everytime I have been to the shop it has been a wonderful experience! Claudia & Rachel both are great and have excellent customer service and teaching skills. They always have gone above and beyond to make sure our projects came out excellent. Very pleased and will be going back frequently!

My husband and I signed up for the cornhole class to celebrate our anniversary. We walked in 5 minutes before our class was scheduled to start. No one greeted us. We went to the table that was empty and then were told to sand our boards. Then, we were told we could choose to stain or paint the boards. We chose to stain them and were told that was fine. We were handed foam brushes and not given any other guidance. We began staining and an older gentleman came in. He tried to shake our hands and we politely refused due to the pandemic. My husband elbowed him and I waved. He then put his elbow in my face to where I was forced to elbow him back. He then stood and stared at us staining. He did not offer any help and would just stare at us to the point where we were both uncomfortable. He would occasionally criticize us and point out missed places, but did not offer to help. One of the owners came over and asked a question about how we were staining and I informed her we were not given any guidance and that at other places they teach...she walked away after that comment and never returned. The employees made several comments about how long it was taking for the stain to dry. Then we were told to remove the back from the template. At Board and Brush they do this part for you as it is tedious and time consuming for people who don’t do it often. Then, we were told to put tape over the template and I did it the way instructed by one of the employees. The older gentleman employee told me I was doing it wrong and the other employee said it was fine. Meanwhile, the employees were correcting our staining because they said it didn’t look good. We put the template on with the employee and then they noticed it was too far over so it had to be redone completely. I appreciated them fixing that. We worked on the other board and put on primer (glue) as instructed. We then painted with a sponge. When it was time to remove the template, the board was completely scratched up as the primer pulled up the actual wood along with the stain. The owner agreed that it looked horrible and offered to refund or make new ones. While I appreciate that they did make it right in the end, the experience was horrible. We wanted to be able to tell people we helped to make the boards for years to come and now all we have is an experience that was pretty miserable and being basically told to leave so they could just do it. The owner did say they learned a lot and will not stain cornhole boards in the future but I wish they would have worked out the kinks on a practice board and not on ours. I also hope they work on their customer service. I will not recommend.

My team and I went last night and had a blast! We all came out with completely different projects and all looked great! I made the Advent calendar, I will say it was one of the more tedious of the group but everyone was so nice and helped me every step of the way! They made sure we all loved our finished products. I’m ready to book my next project!

Love AR Workshop Garland! Claudia and Rachel are the best. Miss you guys. Can’t wait to get back to more fun crafting at the workshop