Self-Taught Carpenter a Success.

From Cathy Dobson, the Sarnia Journal.

Chrissy McRoberts still calls her favourite coffee shop by its proper name – Blackwater.

But she could also call it her office, and even her showroom.

Many mornings she’s perched near the front of the downtown café, sipping coffee at a 6’6” long table she made from recycled construction lumber.

She custom-built the table for Blackwater owner Dave Duguay, designing it to his specifications, sanding the wood, sealing it with epoxy and adding a bit of whimsy by filling in gaps with coffee beans.

“Every piece of furniture I make includes something no one else is going to do,” she says. “That makes me stand out.”

When Duguay approached McRoberts to build the table for Blackwater he knew she was already in the business of creating small household furniture from salvaged materials.

But it was the first time she tried her hand at furniture for commercial use.

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Image. Cathy Dobson.

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