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Classic, Space Saving Custom Entertainment Centers by Philip Snyder of PS Woodworking

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on December 29, 2011

Do you have “a set of working plans” or “just an idea or vision” for a custom woodworking project?  Artisan Philip Snyder, owner and operator of PS Woodworking, can bring your project to life, even if you’re just starting with a need for extra storage and some dead space.  Working out of Napa, CA, Philip [...]

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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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Custom Furniture for Yoga

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 25, 2011

The traditions and practices that constitute yoga, though they may differ in their approaches, all strive for “integrating mind, body, and spirit to achieve a state of enlightenment or oneness with the universe.”  In a broad sense, you can find an affinity between yoga and the holistic approach of custom furniture.  Custom furniture makers can [...]

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Custom Interior Doors

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

Think of all the spaces that doors cover inside your home: rooms, pantries, closets, utility areas, etc.  They occupy too much real estate on your walls to overlook them or just treat them as purely functional pieces.  Custom interior doors can meet your practical requirements (especially if your spaces are too challenging for standard doors) [...]

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A Matter of Perspective: Cities and Neighborhoods in Custom Artwork

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 26, 2011

In a manner of speaking, a skyline is the face of a city, and commissioned sculptures and paintings of cityscapes as familiar silhouettes of buildings and landmarks are like formal portraits.  Faces reveal a great deal, but cities, like people, have features and qualities that might escape the perspective of a formal portrait, characteristics that [...]

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Ten Ways to Add Custom Built-In Bookcases to Your Home

Posted by Seth in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on December 18, 2010

Have you decided to invest in custom built-in bookcases for your home?  Built-in shelving will give you versatile storage space and add a note of distinction to any room in your home.  However, if you thought built-in bookcases were just for your library, think again.  Here are ten ways to add built-in bookcases to your [...]

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