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Flights of Fancy: Design Options for Your Custom Stairs

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

Your home’s unique style starts on the ground.  Beautiful hardwood flooring, carpets, or tiles can set the stage in every room for your furniture, built-ins, and home décor items.  If you have a multi-level home, you can also explore some intriguing options for custom flooring and stairs.  Don’t think of your stairways as just neutral, [...]

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Adding Room Dividers to your Custom Living Room Design

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 12, 2011

Do you have an open living room that appears remote?  Do you have a small living room that feels crowded?  If you include room dividers in your custom living room design or remodeling plans, you can tweak that space however you wish.  You can make an open area more intimate by partitioning or accenting a [...]

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Elegant Strength: Custom Walnut Furniture

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 9, 2011

Elegant strength is the best way to describe the character of walnut.  A dense, hard wood that can range in color from creamy white to dark brown, walnut also has beautiful grain figuring that by itself is striking but can also complement other woods or materials such as tile, glass, or metal.   Walnut is an [...]

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Modern Greene & Greene Style: Six CustomMade Artisans

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on December 16, 2010

CustomMade is very fortunate to include in our galleries the works of talented artisans who create Greene & Greene style furniture.  CustomMade friend David Mathias has recently written a book, Greene & Greene Furniture: Poems of Wood & Light, a new look at the houses and furniture of Charles and Henry Greene.  In this guest [...]

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Custom Made Mirrors and Visual Effects

Posted by Seth in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on December 11, 2010

Do you want to add a sense of depth and space to a room?  A custom made mirror can do just that, and a CustomMade artisan can create exactly what you desire, from a mirrored wall to an intimate mirror on a table or dresser.  Mirrors can be made in nearly any size, shape, and [...]

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Custom Home Decor and Accessories

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on December 9, 2010

Finding the perfect style that will make your home stand out is difficult.  You can carefully select your furniture and home décor accents at retail stores, but you won’t find truly unique pieces there.  For accents and accessories that will give your home a unique feel, take a look at our custom home décor pieces [...]

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Concrete: Hot Trend in Custom Contemporary Kitchen and Bath Design

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on December 6, 2010

Remember The Beverly Hillbillies mansion with the “cement pond?” Maybe Granny could not appreciate the beauty of cement, but it’s the hot new trend in creating high-end custom kitchens and baths.  For years those who wanted an upscale look for their custom kitchen remodeling and bathroom design chose granite.  Today, concrete is a new upscale [...]

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Custom in the Community: Paradise City Arts Festival

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, The Wide World of Custom Making on November 19, 2010

Greetings custom comrades!

It’s Friday afternoon. The weekend is nearly upon us. We’ll be taking this time every week to give you a glance at some cool custom-friendly community happenings to check out this weekend…

If you’re in the greater Boston area, the Paradise City Arts Festival is not to be missed! The festival is [...]

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Countdown to Small Business Saturday: 5 days!

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, The Wide World of Custom Making on November 19, 2010

Here at CustomMade.com we’ve got a soft spot for custom makers of all stripes, and part of our aim in promoting custom commerce is to give small businesses a bigger voice on the internet.

Thankfully, there are a burgeoning number of resources for small business owners and incentives for consumers to shop locally.

This week, [...]

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Custom Works in Multiple Media

Posted by Seth in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on November 18, 2010

Although artisans are usually categorized in terms of a single medium – wood, metal, stained glass, etc – you will find that CustomMade artisans make items of exceptional beauty that expertly combine many different materials.  There are few limits to what combinations our talented artisans can work with.  If you are considering commissioning a custom [...]

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