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CustomMade Can Help You Create Rooms Within Rooms

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 28, 2012

Have a large room or open space that you would like to subdivide into smaller, more intimate settings or conversation areas?  Florida-based architect Bud Dietrich has a passion for turning his “clients’ houses into their homes,” and in his article “Architect’s Toolbox: A Room Within a Room” for the home design website Houzz, he takes [...]

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Feng Shui and TV … in the Bedroom?

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on January 27, 2012

Take a look at this beautiful, custom master bed by Pagomo Designs.  Attractive and soothing curved shelves and drawers are built into a firm yet inviting headboard.  The footboard contains a lift for a flat screen TV.  The bed is perfect for this bedroom, and the rest of the space you can see in the [...]

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Portlandia says “Put a Bird On It”? Make it a custom bird!

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on January 24, 2012

If you’re a fan of the new hit series Portlandia starring Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, you’ve heard the adage “put a bird on it” a time or two. This refrain was taken from a comedic skit that suggests when a bird is placed on a functional object it heightens that object to art. The [...]

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Backed into a Corner? Come Out Swinging with Custom Cabinets

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 22, 2012

Whether you’re redoing a room that’s pinched for space or trying to give a remote corner a more welcoming face to the world, custom made cabinetry specifically designed for your home’s most troublesome intersections is the solution you’ve been seeking.  Do you need particular cabinet doors?  Have to contend with a challenging arrangement of existing [...]

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Computer HardWear for Your Custom Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 21, 2012

If steampunk chic takes re-imagined 19th century technology and turns it inside out (and is not just, well, stuff with gears glued on), what do we call a style that re-imagines and repurposes 20th/21st century technology and turns it inside out in custom jewelry?

In our blog post, “Tech Transformed – Custom Jewelry that Re-Imagines [...]

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Custom Jewelry Design by David Friedlander of Diamonds by Lauren

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on January 20, 2012

Having custom jewelry designed for your fiancée can be challenging.  Trying to get it done on online can add to the stress and uncertainty, unless you’re working with a CustomMade maker like David Friedlander of Diamonds by Lauren.  It takes a special combination of artistry, web savvy, and customer service to make that experience enjoyable [...]

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Your Home Remembered in Reclaimed Wood Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 18, 2012

Although home remodeling is a wonderful opportunity to turn to the future and develop a new look for your space, your home’s unique history and your family’s own stories can be a part of that future though unique custom furniture that literally reclaims and incorporates pieces from your past.  Take a look at a few [...]

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Custom Finds Inspired by the Year of the Dragon

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on January 17, 2012

In Chinese astrology, the year of your birth always has a corresponding animal attached to it. Simultaneously, that animal is linked to one of the five elements of earth, water, fire,wood, or metal. Depending upon the exact specifications of when you were born, you could be a Tiger in Earth Cycle or a Rabbit in [...]

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The Stories Behind a CustomMade Connection: A Custom Cutting Board Wedding Gift by DST Studio

Posted by Pedro in CustomMade Connections, For Customers on January 15, 2012

There’s a story behind every custom project, and some pieces are also designed to tell a story.  CustomMade’s own Eric Toczko, Director of Business Development, recently commissioned Shawn Turley of DST Studio to create a cutting board for his newlywed friends.  Eric writes in his review:

Worth the wait!! Shawn was a bit [...]

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Custom Mailboxes

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 14, 2012

Hidden in plain sight, many objects we touch daily exist for us mentally only in functional terms if we consider them at all.  And we usually consider them only when they break down and need to be repaired or replaced, like when the humble mailbox meets an ignominious end at a truck’s bumper or after [...]

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