Three Generations of Allner & Son
Matt Allner
Owner
Matt is the oldest of three sons, raised by two amazing parents, Mike and Laurie Allner, in Northwest Iowa. Like his father, Matt was an athlete through high school and into college, and learned to a variety of trades along with painting from his father. After graduating from college Matt became a teacher like his father and moved to Southern California to teach science at a middle school in Camarillo, CA. Matt ended up helping a few people who were friends of his paint their houses in the summers and then neighbors, realtors, and others would notice his work and would ask him to paint. But Matt never developed the business while in California, as he met his wife and after getting married they moved back to the Midwest where they were both from to start raising their family. After moving back to Iowa, Matt continued his teaching career and it was during this time Matt also had some amazing opportunities arise with NASA and just a short year later found himself a finalist in the NASA Astronaut Selection Process and a NASA funded graduate student researcher. While continuing to teach and work with his dad in the summers, he simultaneously continued to pursue his new passion and dream to be an astronaut. From 2006 to 2010 NASA sent him all over the globe to four different continents and five different countries to both conduct and present his research work. In 2007 Matt received a calling from the Lord to move his family to Colorado and so they settled in Colorado Springs. Matt found a teaching job at a middle school in south Colorado Springs and built another NASA Explorer School program with another large grant and support from NASA. After eventually being an Astronaut finalist three times, interviewing in 2009, and publishing over 16 conference papers as a professional scientist Matt received a strong calling from the Lord in 2015 to leave his work as both a teacher and scientist and start a family-owned painting business in Colorado where he lived. Since 2015 Matt has been building out his father’s legacy and in just his eighth year of owning and managing the business, has evolved it to where it is today. Matt is now in the process of teaching and mentoring his son in the trade so that one day if he feels called as well, he will be ready to take the business further into the future.
Mike Allner
Founder
In recognition of a lifetime of commitment to marriage, fatherhood, and leadership mentoring all the young men you have, Allner & Son Painting was dedicated to Mike by his son Matt on December 24, 2016.
“Thank you for always demonstrating for me the value of hard work, perseverance, and not being afraid to get your hands dirty in life. Dedicating this business to you is just a small token of the appreciation I have for you teaching me how to paint by working on all our homes growing up as a boy. All that you have taught me has provided for my family in more ways than you can possibly know. “
I love you Dad. . . Your son, Matt
Nathan Allner
Assistant Manager
Nathan is now the third generation of family tradesmen and the second son of Allner & Son Painting. Having started working with his dad at a young age like his father, he first learned to stain decks as well as a variety of interior painting work. Nathan realized at a young age that many young men his age weren’t learning the trade work anymore and it was somewhat of a dying trend. But there lays the opportunity and Nathan seized it by doing the opposite of what so many young men like him do and today has developed a very strong work ethic while also understanding the various components necessary to build a business and sustain it. As a second year college student Nathan is now an apprentice working with his father as he goes through school. Nathan currently is working towards a degree in Landscape Architecture and one day wants to start his own business like his father, possibly merging the trade into the Allner & Son family business that is steadily evolving into more and more home services and trades.