A master craftsman of custom furniture in Tsawwassen has put his skills to use to help out the South Delta Food bank.
Andrew Falconer owner of Beachgrove Custom Furniture told the Optimist that he was recently given a large amount of cedar from some friends.
“My mum was visiting at the time and was just about to fly back to the UK when the COVID-19 pandemic started to bite,” he said. “She suggested that in these troubled time it was a good opportunity to do some good in the community and seeing as I had the cedar it made sense to see if I could sell planters from my workshop and give the profits to the South Delta food bank.”
Falconer ended up building nine planters donating $1,025 to the food bank and in the process managed to use up all the cedar that he was given.
“It was great. I literally thought I might run out of materials…nine of them take up a lot of wood,” he said. “It was a win-win-win thing. As my mum said you won’t be as busy with the normal business, you have all this free wood and you can turn that into a positive. It kept me busy for the week and helped out someone locally and all the money was raised locally.”
Falconer’s one-man business specializes in big chunky, rustic furniture. He makes tables of all shapes and sizes as well as mantles, coffee tables, bed frames and sliding barn doors.
You can find him on Facebook and Instagram.
