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Extraordinary Custom Coffee Tables from Ordinary Forms

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on June 23, 2011

Where will you find inspiration for your next custom furniture project?

Exotic or traditional designs can be appropriated for new purposes.  Some inventive pieces have been necessitated by unique and unusual spaces.  The beauty and history of reclaimed wood and other materials can spark an artistic and ethical impulse to create something special.

And in [...]

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The Functional and the Ferocious: CustomMade Development Team Favorites

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds, The People Behind CustomMade on June 14, 2011

CustomMade.com is a stage for expert creators to showcase their skills; behind the scenes keeping the show running stands a colorful staff with a totally eclectic range of personalities and styles. In a recent burst of summertime whimsy, I thought it’d be fun to take a snapshot of each CustomMade department’s favorite custom finds of [...]

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Flexible Strategies: Adjustable Custom Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on June 1, 2011

Have you ever wished you had an attractive coffee table big enough for all your guests to gather around in your living room?  If only you could get it out of the way easily when the party is over.  Do you have a room with a great view or another beautiful feature but an unusual [...]

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A Wabi-sabi Approach to Using Reclaimed and Recycled Materials in Your Custom Projects

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

Finding beauty and inspiration in the imperfect and fleeting is one of the principles of the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi.  It’s an aesthetic approach that’s well-suited for developing a custom piece made from reclaimed resources.  CustomMade artisans can work with an amazing variety of recycled materials.  Some of these elements have been broken through their [...]

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Coffee Table Giveaway Sponsered by Kyle Buckner Designs

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, The Wide World of Custom Making on April 21, 2011

KB Designs is proud to sponsor a giveaway event in support of the American Cancer Society.  For every $1.00 donated you will be entered to win the “Rail” by KB Designs, an exclusive, one of a kind coffee table.  The drawing will occur on June 1, 2011 and the winner will be notified via email.  [...]

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A Little Something CustomMade in The Wall Street Journal

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on April 20, 2011

Furniture retailers are learning something that CustomMade has known all along: consumers are willing to invest their time and money on quality custom furniture.  Anjali Athavaley explores the conversion to custom and retail’s turn towards artisanal production and limited edition furniture in her article in The Wall Street Journal Online and in an accompanying video.  [...]

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Here Be Custom Dragons

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 18, 2011

No mythical creature is as recognizable universally as the mighty dragon.  Although the reptilian monsters may symbolize fantasy literature and games in modern Western cultures, dragons have been a part of folklore from all over the world for thousands of years.

Dragons are very cool, too.

If you’d like to add a fantasy element to a [...]

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Look out mac users, the custom i Table has arrived!

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on April 13, 2011

Introducing Kyle Buckner – one of the youngest CustomMade makers, this designer/furnituremaker/sound engineer extraordinaire is somewhat of a Renaissance man…

Just this past September, the 23-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University student posted a lounge chair he made for a intro woodworking class online and within days it was featured on top design blogs and luxury furniture [...]

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Come into My Parlor: Tables by Michael Wilson Designs

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

If you’re an arachnophobe, please visit our custom table gallery before you look at the pictures below.  You can find many other examples of custom made conference, coffee, and wood tables available from the CustomMade family of artisans.

Still here?  Cool.

Many things have legs, including furniture.  Some things have many legs.  We’ve seen examples [...]

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Moving Furniture: Go Out On a Limb with Custom Furniture Design

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on February 27, 2011

If you encounter a piece of custom furniture, you’ll likely want to walk all around it in order to fully appreciate its beauty and the quality of its craftsmanship.

Have you ever had a piece of furniture walk around you?

Bring a sense of motion and play to any room in your home with custom furniture [...]

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