If you live around here, from St Louis City all the way out to St Charles County, you’ve driven through beautiful old neighborhoods with towering Oak trees that stretch their branches, overtopping the biggest houses and reaching majestically over the street. And if you’ve lived in one of these neighborhoods […]
Read MoreCastlewood Table for Your Castle
The Castlewood table is one of our Rustic Grain showpieces. The chevron design is both classic and modern, and the inlay shows so many different types and facets of wood. You see the craftsmanship in each tabletop from the precise cuts and attention to placement through to the smooth, even […]
Read MoreThe Motivation of a Builder
Up and down the interstates in Missouri and Illinois, dilapidated barns are ubiquitous. They naturally blend with their surroundings as though they’ve been there as long as the grass growing alongside them. From their frequently shabby conditions, it’s often difficult to imagine them as anything but derelict. But some time […]
Read MoreFlipping over the Flip Top Table
This fliptop table tells a beautiful story. A story of welcome. The simple pedestal table can expand to fit a few more. It invites newcomers to pull up a chair and share their tales around it. Even the wood itself tells a story. Look at those saw marks and knots […]
Read MoreA Table with a View
One of the benefits of working with us to design a custom piece is that the result will fit your space beautifully. The tables we worked up for the Darrs do just that. We are proud of the work we put in them. We’re prouder of how they work in […]
Read MoreMoore to Love
Working with homeowners and designers to craft heirloom pieces makes our day, and Christy and Randy Moore and their designer Lisa Cady were no exception. Christy found Rustic Grain while researching wood sources for their redesign. Our mutual love of reclaimed wood made partnership a dream. The Moores loved visiting […]
Read MoreOne for the Anglers
You might know Rustic Grain for our reclaimed wood farmhouse tables. And we do love building them. But we’re in the custom furniture business and jump at the chance to collaborate with our clients to create unique pieces that can be passed down through the generations. Recently we completed […]
Read MoreCraftsmanship: History and Future
When looking at furniture, people often come back to the word craftsmanship, as an intrinsic value they want to see imbedded in the objects they use. In this age of mass production, where wood is shipped from the US to Asia only to be returned to us as an overly […]
Read MoreA Mix and Match Juxtaposition
“Hey, can you make a coffee table?” That’s what they asked me and off I went. I knew I wanted something that made ready use of the existing dimensions of our inventory. The idea was to make as few alterations to the wood as possible. Then there was one other […]
Read MoreAccumulated Error
One warning we’re constantly making in our shop is: “Watch out for that accumulated error!” It is so often heard that people have started to roll their eyes. But, as accuracy is one of the cornerstones of the woodworking process, it bears repeating. The principle of accumulated error is well […]
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