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For Your Modest Secrets and Potent Loot: Sculptural Furniture and Turned Vessels by Hudson Design Studios

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on July 12, 2012

What would you place inside the Valentine Cabinet by Hudson Design Studios?

CustomMade artisan Kerry Hudson has some suggestions for both drawers of this exotic work:

Things to store in the top drawer: good intentions; a lock of your partner’s hair; a love letter gone yellow with age; your forebear’s locket; or the [...]

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Custom Restoration and Inspiration for Your Antiquing Expeditions

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 26, 2012

If you’ve returned from your latest round of antiquing with a trove of furniture in need of custom restoration, you can find CustomMade artisans ready to complete any custom repair services your treasures may require.

But what if what you found needs to be re-imagined in an original design, or if all you found was [...]

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The Boston Globe on the CustomMade Experience

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on April 27, 2012

What is the CustomMade experience like from the perspective of the makers, and what are the obstacles facing the continued growth of CustomMade? In an October 23, 2011 Boston Globe article, “Crafting a market for custom wares,” Scott Kirsner interviewed CustomMade CEO and co-founder Mike Salguero as well as current and former CustomMade subscribers as [...]

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The History Behind Reclaimed Wood

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 29, 2012

Each piece of furniture in the Homestead Series by Lyndon Furniture, like this Homestead reclaimed lumber sideboard, not only tells a story but also has a history.  Shawn Straffin writes:

About 250 years ago New England was in its infancy.  The people who settled our country were undaunted by the task of establishing [...]

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Rise Above the Noise: Differentiate, Add Value, Create Community

Posted by Marcie in For Makers, The Pro Shop on November 7, 2011

Guest contributor Patrick Kennedy of Superior Woodcraft, Inc.

In today’s market it is more important than ever to inform potential clients about your company.  It’s no longer enough to take out print ads informing the market that your company creates great products at competitive prices. That’s a message that every company touts for every product and [...]

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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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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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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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Coming Soon to a Workshop Near You: Custom Standing Desks 2, “The Rising”

Posted by Pedro in For Makers, The Pro Shop on September 12, 2011

Are you sitting down?

Good grief, stand up right now!  Haven’t you read Jim Carlton’s recent article, “Standing Desks are on the Rise,” in the Wall Street Journal Online?  Apparently, employees at Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley companies are in mortal terror of sitting at their desks.

In this video accompanying the article, Mr. [...]

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Take These Custom Bookcases for a Spin

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 19, 2011

If you associate rotating bookshelves strictly with stores and waiting rooms, think again.  Sure-fire conversation pieces for your living room or study, custom bookcases designed to stand away from the walls can function as multi-faceted room dividers and provide plenty of storage with a compact footprint.  And if you happen to be shopping for retail [...]

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