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Adding Room Dividers to your Custom Living Room Design

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 12, 2011

Do you have an open living room that appears remote?  Do you have a small living room that feels crowded?  If you include room dividers in your custom living room design or remodeling plans, you can tweak that space however you wish.  You can make an open area more intimate by partitioning or accenting a [...]

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Designing and Building a Custom Reading Room

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 12, 2011

If you are a bibliophile, then you have surely dreamed of having a grand library in your house. While you may not have the space to rival the Library of Alexandria, you can still create a lovely reading den. You can choose the type of shelves, seating, and lighting; make it as formal or as [...]

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CustomMade: One of “America’s Most Promising Startups” according to Bloomberg Businessweek

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on January 11, 2011

Bloomberg Businessweek has featured CustomMade in “America’s Most Promising Startups,” an ongoing series that showcases new businesses “that embody the creativity and resilience common among today’s entrepreneurs.”  The CustomMade profile, “Matching Skilled Artisans with Discerning Shoppers,” will give you a sense of the company’s incredible growth and the plans co-founders Mike Salguero and Seth Rosen [...]

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Built-in Wall Units Take Care of Congestion

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 11, 2011

Additional storage space is one of the most pressing needs in many homes. Most of us have cobbled together a variety of solutions to this problem by storing our books, DVDs, and audio equipment in a collection of furniture that doesn’t match because various pieces were acquired in phases over a long period of time. [...]

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Custom Fireplace Design

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 11, 2011

Whether a source of heat or strictly decorative, a fireplace usually occupies a prominent location and a good deal of space in your living or family room.  If you’re planning a makeover for the room that houses your hearth, be sure to include custom fireplace remodeling in your plans.  You can work with a CustomMade [...]

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Getting the Look, Living your Life, and Using the Knowledge: Custom Cabinets vs. Pre-Fabricated Cabinets

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 10, 2011

When you pay for custom cabinetry, you’re making an investment in your home.  You might pay a competitive or higher price for custom than for pre-fabricated cabinets, but what are you really paying for?  With custom cabinets, more of your expenditure will go towards craftsmanship.  When you buy pre-fabricated cabinets, more of your expenditure will [...]

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Tips for Designing a Custom Built In Library

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 10, 2011

Piling heaps of leather-bound novels, overfilled notebooks, and paperback books on nightstands, coffee tables, and kitchen counters only looks chic in Hollywood productions. In real life, people prefer an easy route through their homes or apartments to their front doors that is why many book collectors stack their books in a far corner to to [...]

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Elegant Strength: Custom Walnut Furniture

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 9, 2011

Elegant strength is the best way to describe the character of walnut.  A dense, hard wood that can range in color from creamy white to dark brown, walnut also has beautiful grain figuring that by itself is striking but can also complement other woods or materials such as tile, glass, or metal.   Walnut is an [...]

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Creating Custom Home Office Furniture: Designing Storage Solutions

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 8, 2011

Does your home office look like a riot? Do you have files and papers strewn about and a laptop perched precariously on a stack of open books?  Do you have to clear a path to the printer?   Clutter can easily overwhelm you and your workspace.  Instead of adding the mess from your office to [...]

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Durability? Go For an African Hardwood Like Bubinga, Wenge, or Sapele

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 7, 2011

Bubinga, a member of the Leguminosae family, is an exotic hardwood. Also known as African rosewood, it grows in equatorial Africa, thriving in wetlands and near lakes and rivers. Bubinga is a premium wood highly valued for furniture making, guitar construction, and for the handles of expensive knives and brushes.

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