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Let Your Design Personality Shine Through Your Custom Kitchen

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on May 18, 2012

What does your kitchen say about your design personality?

On NPR’s “Daily Picture Show” blog from March 2012, John Asante discussed photographer Ellen Silverman’s photography series, Spare Beauty: The Cuban Kitchen, and invited readers to reflect on their own kitchens in “What Our Kitchens Might Say About Us.” He wrote: “It’s an interesting concept that [...]

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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.

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A Custom Furnituremaker Transforms an Art Gallery

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, The Wide World of Custom Making on April 20, 2011

A Gallery Installation in Progress

The World as Text will be an exhibition of artists’ books at the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago – here are the beginnings of the installation in progress under the direction of CustomMade’s John Preus.

“The World as Text”

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The Stories Behind Reclaimed Wood Furniture

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

CustomMade has strived to spread the word about the environmental benefits of custom furniture made from salvaged wood and to break the stereotype that equates eco-friendly furniture with a particular design style or type of consumer.  Your custom barnwood furniture or pieces made from other recycled materials can be as diverse and stylish as items [...]

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