Lucky Sustainable Designs
Whether they're looking to steal copper pipe, or just lay some of their own, people who lurk around construction sites are usually up to no good. Loitering for a nobler purpose, Lucky Sustainable Designs.
Lucky was started by a Houstonite who years ago began using wood found in building zones, razed neighborhood lots, and other cast-off goldmines to build hefty pieces of furniture; not wanting to waste the tinier bits, she started crafting smaller stuff, at first for friends, and now for any Lucky bastard who finds her online. The mainstay's lathe-turned, non-toxic-shellac'd bottle stoppers with tapered rubber-ringed chromed bottoms, using oft-exotic woods discovered in odd places (sweet-grained birch plywood from thrown-out flooring; vein-covered spalted pecan from a neighbor's storm-felled tree) or culled from sustainable-harvest scrap, e.g. a hash-marked black palm with an anti-corrosive stainless steel bottom, the same thing Jane Fonda miraculously maintained through the 1980s. Other items include turned-wood bowls (from mesquite, with a grain that results in a unique off-color rim edge), a sleek pepper mill (also from mesquite, with a rich red-brown color), and boxes with doweled/dovetailed/mitered joints, incorporating materials like bleached ash from a dining table and poplar from a headboard, likely tossed because the bed wasn't poplar enough.
Lucky'll also take custom orders, as well as design and construct chairs, tables, and cabinetry -- a hobby you might also consider taking up, when you find your construction site trick-turning is up to no wood.
