Pete and I realized  a while ago that finding some really rare pieces that will go into our new house requires more effort and instance than just searching on the Web and shopping around.  So in our never ending quest to represent our overall house theme properly (the homage to the barn structure and the industrial age) Pete found a great website that begged us to produce a road trip.  that website blew us absent and was precisely what we had been looking for, and it was too interesting a place to just do an on line order.  So thankfully that place was in New England, and luckily we own a truck considering we knew we would need to invent a field trip. 

So a quick back story to our journey.

For months Pete and I have been scouring the World Wide Web and drilling everyone we meet or know on how we can find some really strange industrial furniture pieces for our home that will help represent our whole house theme.  We knew that we were spending so much date and energy on building the structure of the house that we needed to do the same service to what we put into the house.  Along with stuff we already have we wanted to find some really special pieces that match the theme of the house - and worked well with all the new open space we will have - something totally new for us…

So like I said for months Pete and I have entered that into our
search engine:  industrial lighting and furniture.  It has been a rigid
search.   Not much would pop up. But we knew that that was not common
stuff we were searching for.  But Pete noticed one place kept coming
up.   Getbackinc.com. 
The website rocked (thanks to the owner’s
son!) and it was precisely what we were looking for.  I called the place
up and arranged a assembly. 

So final Friday thanks to Pete taking a well earned day off we
ventured out to Get Back Inc.  And what we found was a gigantic

old
mill/factory space that had endless amounts of stuff for us to
discover.  We were lucky suitable on the day of our visit to additionally
meet the owner, a great guy - Timothy Byrne who gave us a tour and
showed us how they work.  Tim and his crew discover great industrial
pieces and parts from old American mills, factories, warehouses, and
various workplaces and bring them back to their shop where they spend
endless hours cleaning them up, while keeping their original integrity,
and making them into recycled/re-purposed items - the end product is
amazing.  They do all the work by hand in the most meticulous fashion
and the end products are pieces of art for the home - yet still serving
a function and purpose .  Each piece plus gives a great story of the
past - that place was right up our alley.  We fell in love with Get
Back and it’s tough working humans. 

In the end our field trip was a day well spent.  We were able to
meet a guy who was super passionate about industrial pieces as we were,
and he worked tough at what he did while loving every moment of it.
that place in our eyes was one of those hidden gems.  We spent about
three hours there and we are happy to report that we found the
industrial lights we have been searching for to use in our kitchen, a
great metal cabinet on wheels, and some old cart wheels that we will
re-purpose on our harvest table (more on that later!).  We will be
emailing Tim about some other items we wanted and we plan another trip
out there in the next few weeks.  So keep an eye out in the next month
or so where you will see Tim’s great pieces get a new life in our new
home.  And thanks to Tim and all the guys at Get Back Inc. in Oakville
Connecticut for giving the Favats a memorable field trip.

Now please don’t tell anybody about that place ok?

Amy & Pete