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Plant Motifs and Metalwork for Your Custom Railing Projects

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 14, 2011

If you peruse our custom railing gallery, you’ll find that metal railings with botanical motifs are popular projects at CustomMade.  Plant life exquisitely rendered in metal can bring the outdoors inside and add a dynamic sense of growth to any stairway or deck.  However, at first glance, plants and metal seem like an unlikely pairing.  [...]

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Introduce Your Home: Custom Doors and Hardware for Your Garages, Gates, and Entryways

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on July 14, 2011

If you have a drive-up garage, your garage door probably functions as the face of your home.  If your house is set back from the street, a fence or gate may effectively be your greeting to visitors.  Custom doors by CustomMade artisans for your garage and gates can provide security, beauty, and a personal touch you [...]

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Custom Stained Glass Transoms

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on July 2, 2011

Light is an ever-returning visitor in your home.  If you greet your radiant guest with custom stained glass, it will leave behind unique and ever-changing “calling cards of light” to call your own.

So why not leave a little space open for some luminous “over-the-transom” messages?

If you’d like to receive unexpected dramatic blockbusters or [...]

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Little Words of Love: Custom Jewelry Personalized with the Names of Your Family

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

Custom made jewelry inscribed with the names of your true treasures, your children and other family members, is a wonderful way to show your pride and devotion to those you love.  If you’d like to mark a special occasion, celebrate a birthday or holiday, or just because and are looking for ideas, here are a [...]

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Custom Boxes That Will Make You Feel Like a Box of Birds

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 14, 2011

How are you feeling? Box of birds, mate.

If you’re looking for a clever way to add a little personality to a custom gift box or a custom decorative box for yourself, ask a CustomMade artisan to add the image of a bird to your project.  You can choose a bird that symbolizes freedom or [...]

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CustomMade Resources for Collecting Handmade Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on May 13, 2011

Where to begin if you’re interested in collecting handmade furniture?  Have you settled on the criteria for your selections? Defining and refining the rhyme and reason for your collection is a fun way to start, and most likely you’ll continue to define and refine your tastes with every piece you add.  Will you focus on [...]

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Custom Cheese Servers for Your Next Get-Together

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 10, 2011

If you’re looking for a housewarming gift or a way to add a small but practical personal flourish to your own home, our custom kitchen accessories and custom cooking tools gallery is a great place to start.  Anyone who entertains frequently with fine wine and hors d’oeuvres would appreciate custom cheese servers created by CustomMade [...]

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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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Custom Made with Lasers

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 17, 2011

The laser is a versatile tool that CustomMade artisans can use to cut materials, create engravings, and produce photorealistic designs on a wide range of media, such as wood, metal, glass, and stone.  Here are just a few examples of the many things that can be custom made with lasers.

Lasers can cut materials in [...]

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Crown Your Home with a Weathervane by Tuck & Holand

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 16, 2011

Although the weathervane has a history that dates back to Ancient Greece, for many of us the image of a weathervane shaped like a rooster spinning on top of a barn conjures up nostalgia for rural Americana.  Though many weathervane designs were deliberately humorous, in the days before instant weather updates these devices had an [...]

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