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Creative Collaboration: Custom Furniture and More for Restaurants and Nightspots

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 30, 2011

If you’re entering the restaurant business, you most likely have a very good idea of the cuisine you wish to offer and a pretty good idea of the ambience you want to establish.  However, unless you’re a polymath, you’re probably not a woodworker, custom furniture maker, or stained glass artisan, but the furniture and décor [...]

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Environmentally Friendly Inside and Outside: Custom Furniture by Stick and Stone Studio

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on September 29, 2011

Need a table for a neighborhood gathering? This beautiful carved trestle table by Tom Sippel of Stick and Stone Studio can seat ten guests around a 3” thick live edge English elm slab tabletop.

That doesn’t include the neighbors carved into the base.

Woodworker and sculptor Tom Sippel creates unique custom furniture using traditional techniques in his studio [...]

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Vintage Pinball Machine Upcycled into a Sideboard

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on September 27, 2011

I can tell you from my “vast experience” watching a recent episode of American Pickers on the History Channel that beautiful old pinball machines aren’t worth quite the money you’d think they’d be worth. Especially because so many of them are in such disrepair.

This is why I’m excited to see this sideboard made by [...]

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Spreading the Custom Word: CEO Mike Salguero is Blogging on AOL Websites

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on September 27, 2011

CustomMade CEO and Co-founder Mike Salguero is now a regular blogger on prominent AOL websites such as The Huffington Post and Stylelist.  He’ll be writing about entrepreneurship, economic trends, consumers, and, no doubt, the custom revolution.  His first piece on Stylelist Home promotes the economic benefits of spending your dollars on local businesses, a subject [...]

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Marketing Idea: New Twist on the Wooden Nickel

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on September 26, 2011

My grandfather ends pretty much every visit I have with him with the lighthearted reminder “Don’t take any wooden nickels!” Patrick Kennedy of Superior Woodcraft has decided to get back to the roots of this 1930′s-era marketing technique and bring it back to life. It was, back then, a great way to create a new [...]

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Custom Furniture for Yoga

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 25, 2011

The traditions and practices that constitute yoga, though they may differ in their approaches, all strive for “integrating mind, body, and spirit to achieve a state of enlightenment or oneness with the universe.”  In a broad sense, you can find an affinity between yoga and the holistic approach of custom furniture.  Custom furniture makers can [...]

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Fascinating. Custom Accessories with Science Fiction Motifs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 24, 2011

A satellite crashing back to Earth?

Particles traveling faster than light?

This can only mean one thing.

The aliens are here.

We’ve featured some amazing custom home décor items inspired by fantastic creatures and ancient myths on our blog.  Our modern mythology of science fiction can also be a fertile source for your custom imagination.  [...]

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What is Mackintosh Style?

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on September 23, 2011

When the Scottish architect, designer, and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was commissioned to design and build Hill House, before “creating an elevation drawing or even a floor plan,” he spent a few days with the family of his client, Walter Blackie, in their then current home and observed their everyday life so he could [...]

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Handcrafted Golf Putter

Posted by CustomMade in CustomMade Connections, For Customers, For Makers on September 23, 2011

While there are no strict rules about exactly what types of clubs the average golfer keeps in their arsenal, the “putter” is certainly one of those clubs almost no golfer goes without. While many modern putters these days are made of metal,  our VP of Marketing, Adam, decided to take the opportunity to “go old school” [...]

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Make a Splash with Custom Bathroom Sinks

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 22, 2011

Whether you’re remodeling your entire bathroom or just adding a new decorative touch to the ol’ water closet, keep this in mind: two pieces will receive the lion’s share of daily attention.

So let’s focus on the sink.

Your custom sink can be designed to fit any style of vanity, whether wall-mounted, pedestal, or cabinet.  [...]

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