Al’s favourite projects are ones that repurpose something discarded to give it new life. Douglas Fir – rock-hard and blue-brown from spending years underwater at a dam site and soaking in the minerality of the Montreal River – is now a harvest table for friends in Muskoka. Scrap pieces of wood are now cutting boards or checker-charcuterie boards that are a staple in Findlay family Christmas stockings. An old wooden cast (no idea what it actually made) from Toronto’s old Dominion Sugar Refinery became a chandelier.
