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Educating the Consumer: Budget and the Mind of the Customer

Posted by Marcie in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on July 19, 2012

Written by Maker Success Team member Heather Bailey.

Having something custom built is a new experience for most people. I must confess, before I began working at CustomMade, I had NO idea how much it would cost to have, let’s say, a custom bookshelf crafted for me. And if someone pressed me to come up [...]

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Stephen and Lorenz’s Excellent Adventure: A Maker and Customer Collaboration Story

Posted by Marcie in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on July 18, 2012

Written by Heather Bailey of CustomMade’s Maker Success Team.

It’s not often you have the opportunity to see how the furniture you fill your life with is built. It’s even more rare when you get to lend a hand in actually building it. For CustomMade customer Lorenz, being heavily involved with the entire process of [...]

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We DIG the Underground

Posted by Marcie in Custom Community, For Customers, For Makers on July 10, 2012

Another great article written by Tammy Kingan from the CustomMade Maker Success Team.

It happens in 65 cities across the US with an average of 750 attendees per city and 1200 new participating artists every month… can you guess what it is?

It’s the RAW Natural Born Artists movement, started in 2005 by Heidi [...]

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Maker Spotlight: Ron Corl Design, Ltd.

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on June 16, 2012

Written by Heather Bailey of CustomMade.com Maker Success Team.

At 12 years old, CustomMade maker Ron Corl encountered a problem. It was the late 1960’s and Ron discovered that he needed a case and shelving unit that would successfully store his 8-track player and his record player. After finding that no such piece of furniture [...]

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How to Optimize your CustomMade Portfolio

Posted by Marcie in For Makers, The Pro Shop on June 4, 2012

This article was written by Heather Bailey, Maker Support team member at CustomMade.com.

Adding work to your portfolio is vitally important to gaining visibility on the site. Our most successful makers have over 50 projects and counting in their portfolios. The more content you have, the higher your chances are of having a potential customer [...]

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Slow Down In The Shop: “Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”

Posted by Marcie in For Makers, The Pro Shop on April 2, 2012

This weeks Pro Shop blog is written by guest blogger Doug Turner of Turner Custom Furniture in Atlanta, Georgia.

For this article, I chose to write about something that’s been on my mind a lot lately: taking the proper amount of time to get a project done right, and why that’s often very difficult.

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Meet Custom Furniture Maker Jacek Ryszka—From Poland With Love

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, For Makers, Maker Spotlight on March 22, 2012

Listen carefully, the wood is talking.

Jacek Ryszka, designer and woodworker at J.R. Signature Creations, understands wood perfectly. He says the particular grain of wood is key to the success of a beautiful custom piece and knows immediately if a slab of wood will make a good coffee table.

From master chef to master craftsman, Jacek Ryszka [...]

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The “Anti-Cookie-Cutter Colorful Interiors” of Jane Hall Design

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on March 16, 2012

“Interiors have personalities. We can use color and texture to evoke a room’s unique personality, and that of ourselves. Fabric, color and texture are my passions and I can’t imagine doing anything else. I seek to turn dreams into reality for my clients with thousands of fabrics to choose from and to inspire”.

For the [...]

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Finesse With a Chainsaw ?!?!

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on February 21, 2012

To some, chainsaw carving may sound like a gimmicky parlor trick, a world away from fine art design. Long considered one of woodcraft’s more interesting (and more dangerous) methods, chainsaw carving is a precision technique used to create ornate, custom wood sculpture. This hazardous approach to wood carving produces pieces that are unquestionably fine art.

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Meet Sarabi Studio: Handcrafted Minimalist Furniture

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on February 1, 2012

Furniture with a minimalist theme follows the infamous mantra “less is more”. With crisp, sharp lines, free of distracting detail and clutter, minimalist furniture sits gently within a space, quietly making a bold impression.

The talented artisans of Sarabi Studio in Austin, Texas are master craftsmen in the art of minimalist furniture design. Lead designer [...]

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