Below: furniture that I made for my brother’s house.

I worked on the house after returning to Michigan from the UK in the fall of 2015. The wood was family-sourced: a big pine fell by my parents’ house in the early aughts. It was milled and then stored in their garage for who knows how long. I like knowing that the wood was put to good use after all that time.

Below: a dining table upcycled from a retired door. Dried flowers are embedded in epoxy in the panels, creating a three-dimensional effect.

My landlord hired a guy to replace a door in our building and—what do you know—he abandoned it under the deck. So my girlfriend and I transformed it into something more useful. Behold: the power of epoxy.