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Custom Inspirations for Your Holiday Table, Part 2: Custom Dining Tables for Any Gathering

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on November 20, 2011

If there is a time of the year that will put maximum stress on your kitchen and dining room furniture, it’s the rapidly approaching holiday season.  The challenges are diverse: planning parties for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or New Year’s; entertaining children home for vacation and family and friends visiting from far away; microwaving bag after [...]

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Transforming Light: Stained Glass and More by Pompei & Company Stained Glass

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on November 10, 2011

What can you accomplish with custom decorative glass?  When CustomMade glass artisans Joseph and Ivy Pompei of Pompei & Company Stained Glass combine “color and texture with the purposeful, artful, and magical potentials of light” in their stained glass designs, they can achieve many effects.

Our windows may assume a vast range of [...]

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How Atlas Signs and Plaques Takes the “Boring” Out of House Numbers

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on October 5, 2011

Our guest blogger today is Jeff Herrmann, primary writer for Atlas Space and Place, the Atlas Signs and Plaques blog.

The beauty of a custom made sign is easily taken for granted.  Many homeowners miss the opportunity to differentiate their house by decorating it with simple and cheap metal numbers.  The sign-makers at Atlas Signs and [...]

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What is Mackintosh Style?

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on September 23, 2011

When the Scottish architect, designer, and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was commissioned to design and build Hill House, before “creating an elevation drawing or even a floor plan,” he spent a few days with the family of his client, Walter Blackie, in their then current home and observed their everyday life so he could [...]

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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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Custom Made items for the Custom Made House

Posted by Seth in For Customers, The People Behind CustomMade, The Wide World of Custom Making on August 9, 2010

Here at CustomMade, we don’t just sell it, we live it. We are all people who prefer to customize our world rather than taking it as it’s given. The following blog post is written by the mother of our own Sam Tymorek. Mrs. Jan Tymorek explains how she further customized an already custom [...]

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Puzzle boxes with Jay Rogers

Posted by Seth in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on July 18, 2010

Every lock has a key, right? Not necessarily. Jay Rogers of Cambridge, Massachusetts has found a passion in making “locks” where the only key is your mind.

Have a look at Jay’s custom made puzzle boxes at his website.  As a teenager, Jay read a story about someone who kept  the secrets of who they really [...]

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