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 MoreComing Back for More
Sometimes a Rustic Grain piece is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase. We’re honored when clients choose us to create that one item they can’t find anywhere else and invite us to share in their story. But other times, those clients come back… This client’s story started with this dining table. But a […]
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 MoreTables for a Small Space
Maybe “rustic” inspires sweeping views and large open-floor plans with furniture large enough to fill this space with its texture and visual weight. Today’s pieces were designed on a smaller scale, for an apartment or townhouse. First up a classic coffee table. At 48″ long, 22″ wide, this piece fits […]
Read MoreHillsboro, IL Barn
Built: 1915 Reclaimed by Rustic Grain: 2017 Located: 39.137963, -89.381511 Farm land. Flat and rich. Horizon stretching far out into the distance. The land west of the Mississippi usually gets the pancake jokes or more warmly the bread belt. But the Illinois plains give Kansas and Nebraska a run […]
Read MoreMiller Kitchen Island
Maple, pine, oak. They all live together in harmony in the woods, and they all work together to make an eye-catching kitchen island as well. The base of this island is framed in oak reclaimed from our Vienna, MO barn. We kept a lot of the rough grain, but still […]
Read MoreFillmore, IL Barn
Built: 1910 Reclaimed by Rustic Grain: 2017 Located: 39.0907060, -89.1771820 Zoom out for a minute on this map. Take a look at that crisp Jefferson Grid. Those straight lines and 90° intersections might lead you to think each parcel of land is pretty much the same. Soybeans and corn. More […]
Read MoreTaneyville, MO Barn
Built: 1898 Reclaimed by Rustic Grain: 2017 Located: 36.715709, -93.031883 Nestled along Winkle Creek just a mile south of Taneyville (which is itself just a few miles northwest of Branson),
Read MoreCrocker, MO Barn
Built: ? Reclaimed by Rustic Grain: 2018 Located: 38.023091,-92.240050 The farm property is just north of Crocker, off your typical windy Ozark Mountain State Highway. We head north up Bethany Rd, named after the cemetery at the corner, Bethany Memorial Gardens. The gravestones are strewn with bright flowers despite the […]
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 […]
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