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Cats Included: Custom Cat Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 1, 2012

No, our CustomMade artisans who create custom cat furniture are not shipping cats to their customers, but they will design custom furniture for your home with your feline pets in mind.

What constitutes cat furniture? Towers and scratching posts like these shown on BuzzFeed would make very cool playgrounds for your cats.  But let’s face [...]

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Custom Clock Designs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on June 27, 2012

Unique clock designs by CustomMade artisans can brighten any room in your home.  Custom clocks will not only tell the time but also a story through the materials and style you and your artisan will choose for your one-of-a-kind project.  Check out these clock designs from our CustomMade galleries that cover everything from elegant mantle clocks [...]

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Explore New Depths with Custom Inlays by Lighthouse Laser Arts

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on May 17, 2012

Explorers who followed their compasses and sailed beyond the horizon helped expand our understanding of the earth.  The world is no longer conceived as a flat expanse but a three-dimensional sphere.  The compass rose collection of inlaid flooring medallion by Lighthouse Laser Arts pays homage to nautical exploration and showcases another triumph over two-dimensional restrictions, [...]

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Into the Cosmos: Explore Space and Time with Custom Artwork by Jim Sloane of 3DWoodies

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on November 24, 2011

What comes to mind when you think of outer space exploration? Astronauts and probes launched into space by rockets? Astronomers with telescopes peering into the night?  If you had to free associate a material with these endeavors, most likely you’d pick cool, gleaming metal or perhaps the glass of lenses and control screens.  Wood might [...]

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Worlds Unfurled: Decorative Maps for Your Custom Tables

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

Maps can combine practical information, a bit of history, a sense of adventure, and colorful art. They can also make the transition to conversation pieces for your home.  Maps can serve as scholarly references and décor items in any room.  They don’t have to be restricted to your walls, either.  Custom tables offer wonderful possibilities [...]

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A Matter of Perspective: Cities and Neighborhoods in Custom Artwork

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 26, 2011

In a manner of speaking, a skyline is the face of a city, and commissioned sculptures and paintings of cityscapes as familiar silhouettes of buildings and landmarks are like formal portraits.  Faces reveal a great deal, but cities, like people, have features and qualities that might escape the perspective of a formal portrait, characteristics that [...]

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The Beauty and Wonders of Maple Hardwood

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on March 17, 2011

There is good reason why maple hardwood is chosen for use in furniture and other household items. Not only is it a durable hardwood, it is also a sustainable wood. Furniture made of maple should last beyond a lifetime. It only improves as it ages. Because of its hardness, skill is necessary for [...]

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The China Guitar by Robinson Custom Inlays

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on March 11, 2011

One of the most exotic custom musical instruments in CustomMade’s galleries, the China Guitar by Robinson Custom Inlays is more “an exotic MIDI controller” than an electric guitar.  The story behind this 11-year project involves one of the Four Heavenly Kings, a 700-year old dragon made of 1,800 hand-cut pieces, brush-and-ink paintings on wood by [...]

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Come into My Parlor: Tables by Michael Wilson Designs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on March 9, 2011

If you’re an arachnophobe, please visit our custom table gallery before you look at the pictures below.  You can find many other examples of custom made conference, coffee, and wood tables available from the CustomMade family of artisans.

Still here?  Cool.

Many things have legs, including furniture.  Some things have many legs.  We’ve seen examples [...]

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Custom Wall Art

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on February 1, 2011

If you’re in the market for wall art, what will the custom approach give you?  Do you want to commission a unique piece with a particular theme or style? Do you need artwork that will fit in a particular spot in your home, complement your room’s décor, or both? Whatever your preferences, CustomMade artisans can [...]

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