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Custom Wedding Invitations and Keepsakes for Your Special Day

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on October 9, 2011

Not quite ready to turn over all the communications for your big day to a wedding website?  Keeping the traditional practice of mailing invitations and announcements to your friends and family doesn’t necessarily make you a Luddite.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Custom wedding invitations add a personal touch to some very important [...]

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Custom Design Services Can Put the Spark Back in Your Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on October 8, 2011

Personality.  For furniture, walking, talking, and smiling won’t work, but a one-of-a-kind piece of custom furniture designed to your specifications by a CustomMade artisan will have a story all its own.  There is another way furniture can acquire a sense of individuality.  Over the course of time in a home, furniture can seemingly take on [...]

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Space Saving Advantages of Custom Built-Ins

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on October 7, 2011

Are you trying to decide between freestanding or built-in custom furniture for your home?  A recent article in the Ottawa Citizen by Jennifer Cox, “Custom advantage: Use built-ins to maximize space and storage,” highlights some of the advantages of choosing built-ins for your next home remodeling project.

Custom made built-ins will allow you to utilize [...]

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Simple, Stately, Dr. Seussly: Custom Tables and More by Pat Megowan Designer/Maker

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on October 6, 2011

For artisan Pat Megowan of Pat Megowan Designer/Maker, custom tables are a passion: “Custom dining tables, coffee tables, end tables, hall tables, from simple to stately to Dr. Seussly, I like them all.” Take a close look at the following selections from the Pat Megowan Designer/Maker portfolio on CustomMade.com.  These tables (and one stool) embody [...]

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How Atlas Signs and Plaques Takes the “Boring” Out of House Numbers

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on October 5, 2011

Our guest blogger today is Jeff Herrmann, primary writer for Atlas Space and Place, the Atlas Signs and Plaques blog.

The beauty of a custom made sign is easily taken for granted.  Many homeowners miss the opportunity to differentiate their house by decorating it with simple and cheap metal numbers.  The sign-makers at Atlas Signs and [...]

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Impala Head Fire Tools by Yardley Forge

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on October 4, 2011

Blacksmith Steve Winney of Yardley Forge in Portland, OR was inspired to created these impala (a type of antelope) head fire tools after spending some time in Mozambique.

Says Steve of his decision to start blacksmithing:

“I started blacksmithing just after my first child was born 14 years ago and the craft has [...]

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Product Update – 10/3/11

Posted by Mike in Company News and Info, For Makers on October 3, 2011

Hello Makers on CustomMade,

Mike Salguero here, CEO of CustomMade, writing to let you know about our latest and upcoming product updates.

Reminder of Features We Added Last Week

You may recall from last week’s email from us that we’ve made some changes to the Job Board to improve it in these three ways:

It [...]

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Consider a Strategic Merge

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on October 3, 2011

Can’t beat your competition? Why not join him or her? It doesn’t make sense for two struggling shops to compete with each other, and everyone else in town. Forming a limited partnership (two businesses working symbiotically) which clearly outlines responsibilities (and lines that shouldn’t be crossed) has many benefits:

One partner may be able to [...]

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Custom Jewelry Mix Tape: Gift Ideas for Music Lovers

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on October 2, 2011

“Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do’s and don’ts. First of all you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.”

Rob Gordon, High Fidelity

Looking for a special gift for a music lover whose only musical talent is great taste [...]

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Custom Made Project Daydream Contest – October 2011

Posted by CustomMade in Company News and Info, Contests and Giveaways, For Customers on October 2, 2011

We have teamed up with the fabulous design blog Design-Milk.com to have a contest. Read more about it below and throw your hat in the ring if you’d like!

CustomMade is the first online marketplace to connect shoppers looking for custom made goods with the skilled artisans who create them. Think of us as match.com [...]

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