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Local Furniture Maker Displeased with Ikea Opening in St. Louis
December 11,
2013 by in Furniture Retailing, Industry 
If you see what they saw, you might be in the furniture making business as well.
“Our stuff has a whole story to tell behind it,” says Jimmy Farah, Rustic Grain`s president. “It’s real wood. It’s not fabricated overseas. It’s actually picked in a 50 mile radius of St. Louis.”
You might call these furniture makers from St. Louis the anti-IKEA. They call themselves Rustic Grain.
It’s a group of creative carpenters who splintered off into a new direction, making furniture from old farms and barns.
“It’s the fourth oldest barn in Madison County in Illinois,” says Farah. “It was becoming a liability, kind of falling apart. We wanted to breathe new life into it. And what better way to dismantle something that was a liability and then turn into a piece that somebody could have in their home.”
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Source: Fox2Now