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Cats Included: Custom Cat Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 1, 2012

No, our CustomMade artisans who create custom cat furniture are not shipping cats to their customers, but they will design custom furniture for your home with your feline pets in mind.

What constitutes cat furniture? Towers and scratching posts like these shown on BuzzFeed would make very cool playgrounds for your cats.  But let’s face [...]

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Uncommon Beauty from Common Things: Upcycling Ideas for Unique Custom Creations

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on July 25, 2012

Upcycling involves reclaiming objects that would otherwise be thrown away and using them to create new works that preserve or improve the quality of the original objects.  If you browse our CustomMade galleries for upcycling ideas and inspirations for your own custom projects, you will see that there is a characteristic aesthetic dimension to this [...]

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Waste Not, Want Not: From Scraps to Reclaimed Wood Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 11, 2012

When you think of the origins of reclaimed wood, what comes to mind? Custom barnwood, of course, evokes images of fading but dignified barns.  Wine wood once held and flavored the fruit of the vine.  A favorite tree in your backyard struck by lightning can find new life in a custom furniture project.

Although less [...]

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Industrial Furniture Style

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on April 6, 2012

A spectre is haunting the design world: the spectre of industrial style.

What was once synonymous with workaday life, writes Lisa Frederick in the industrial style Ideabook for the home design website Houzz, has become a trendy style characterized by a focus on “utilitarian surfaces, stripped-back architecture, and salvaged objects” and a refreshing, unpretentious, “proletarian [...]

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Dream Custom Tubs for Bath Lovers

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on November 6, 2011

You already know why a custom tub can save you from deep trouble.  Once you and your CustomMade artisan have measured your existing space or planned for your future custom bathroom remodel, you can rest assured that your dream bathtub will fit in your bathroom (and that you will fit in your tub, too).  But [...]

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Put Down Your Apps and Take a Seat at a Custom Made Game Board

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

Even a strategy and board game purist will appreciate the elegance and expertise that CustomMade artisans bring to their custom made game boards and pieces.  In our galleries, you can find well-known games such as chess, backgammon, and others, in both traditional and experimental forms, as well as less well-known strategy games from around the [...]

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