About CustomMade

CustomMade is an online matchmaker connecting Buyers who want one-of-a-kind Creations with professional and passionate Makers.

Revamp Your Favorites: Custom Jewelry Designs Reimagined and New by Goldworks

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on June 9, 2012

Why allow your precious jewelry with sentimental value to languish in a drawer just because it’s out-of-style or damaged?  Maybe all it needs is a custom jewelry facelift.  CustomMade artisans Shelley Fort and Joe Matthews of Goldworks can restore or reimagine any jewelry piece that’s meaningful to you.  And if you’re looking for a new [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

Using Alternative Metals in Jewelry Design: Stainless Steel Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on June 8, 2012

If you’re hypersensitive to gold (or just to its price), have you considered stainless steel jewelry for your next custom jewelry project?  Both stainless steel and surgical grade stainless steel are relatively inexpensive and hypoallergenic metals for custom jewelry design and offer exceptional strength as well as scratch and tarnish resistance.  You can find CustomMade [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

Danielle Quigley’s One-Woman Custom Jewelry Show

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on June 7, 2012

Have a bold concept for a one-of-a-kind custom jewelry piece?  Want to bring new life to a family heirloom or other object with a unique custom jewelry design? CustomMade artisan Danielle Quigley of Danielle Rose Bean can make your custom jewelry dreams come true with her knowledge of antiques and metalsmithing.  Take a look at [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

The Briolette Cut for Your Custom Made Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on June 6, 2012

With a teardrop shape and triangular facets all the way down and around the surfaces, briolette-cut gemstones are an excellent choice as centerpieces or accents for your custom necklaces, pendants, and earrings.  The entire briolette-cut stone can be displayed in the round in these types of jewelry, and the natural motion your body gives to [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

Night and Day: Versatile Custom Earrings by Designs by Tracy Janule

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on June 5, 2012

Looking for someone to design custom earrings you can wear both casually and formally?  CustomMade artisan Designs by Tracy Janule can create contemporary and versatile designer earrings that can make the transition without fuss.

Tracy won the 2010 AGTA Spectrum Award for “Best Use of Platinum and Color” for her platinum, aquamarine, and peridot ring.  [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

Custom Outdoor Furniture Designs For Your Favorite Outdoor Spaces

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on June 2, 2012

Custom outdoor furniture designs can turn your favorite outdoor spaces into inviting gathering places.  Whether your idea of social is a barbeque for a large party or a tête-à-tête with a close friend, and whether your outdoors is a huge backyard or a rooftop retreat, custom outdoor furniture designed by CustomMade makers is sure to [...]

Read more... 2 Comments

Custom Rustic Chic Furniture and Décor

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on June 1, 2012

What is rustic chic?

For some people, rustic style is akin to “decorating like an old western saloon.”  Real and mythic images of the Old West, rural America, and iconic log cabins (and saloons) are cultural touchstones that, of course, loom large in our style vocabulary.

So where does something like this rustic wood coat/towel [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

Modern West Style: John Boak Art

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on May 31, 2012

Take a journey into the modern west style of CustomMade artist and designer John Boak of John Boak Art, where the design traditions of 19th and 20th century craft and modernist movements and the informal, vernacular architectural traditions of Europe, the American Old West, and desert Native Americans come together.  At these crossroads, you’ll find [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

Candy Isn’t as Dandy as a Custom Liquor Cabinet

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 31, 2012

Liquor may be quicker, but candy isn’t as dandy as a custom liquor cabinet.  Our CustomMade furniture makers can design and build bar cabinetry for you to fit any style and space.

With an adventurous, whimsical design, your custom made liquor cabinet can be as sweet on the outside as the inside.

The beauty of [...]

Read more... Leave a comment

Custom Walking Sticks by Mirabelli Designs

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on May 29, 2012

Custom walking sticks topped with one-of-a-kind carvings can make wonderful personalized gifts for your favorite ramblers.  How would you top a walking cane?

“If you can dream it, we can create it,” says Milo Mirabelli of Mirabelli Designs.  You can have anything you’d like hand carved and attached permanently to the oak or walnut shafts [...]

Read more... 6 Comments
1234567891011121314151617←→