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Be Inspired by the Things that Appeal to You: foureyes furniture

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on August 2, 2012

Are you self-conscious about starting a custom furniture project based on your own inspiration or asking CustomMade artisans to modify their furniture designs featured in their CustomMade portfolios? What feels like a natural creative impulse to some, perhaps to most of our CustomMade fans, to others can feel like taking something beautiful and turning it [...]

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Uncommon Beauty from Common Things: Upcycling Ideas for Unique Custom Creations

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on July 25, 2012

Upcycling involves reclaiming objects that would otherwise be thrown away and using them to create new works that preserve or improve the quality of the original objects.  If you browse our CustomMade galleries for upcycling ideas and inspirations for your own custom projects, you will see that there is a characteristic aesthetic dimension to this [...]

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Custom Restoration and Inspiration for Your Antiquing Expeditions

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 26, 2012

If you’ve returned from your latest round of antiquing with a trove of furniture in need of custom restoration, you can find CustomMade artisans ready to complete any custom repair services your treasures may require.

But what if what you found needs to be re-imagined in an original design, or if all you found was [...]

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“Mad Men” Furniture: Mid-Century Modern Custom Designs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 25, 2012

Love “Mad Men” and “Mad Men” furniture?  The critically acclaimed series has captured the ethos of early 1960s America as well as the mid-century modern style of the time in incredible detail, with meticulously designed sets, wardrobes, and both original and reproduction furniture.  “Nearly every shot of ‘Mad Men’ is filled with objects from an [...]

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Cleanse Your Color Palette, Find Your Higher Design Truth

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on December 2, 2011

Ready to settle tough color design calls with the flip of a coin? Writer and design consultant Sara Ruffin Costello has found that decorators are creating “pale rooms, sucked free of distracting reds, blues, and yellows” and embracing a palette of black and white.  Is it a trend, movement, or moment?  In her article for [...]

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When Worlds Collide, Custom Home Remodeling Shines Through

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on November 13, 2011

What do this traditional style cherry jukebox by Lost Canyon Woodworks …

and this Victorian town house in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY have in common?

They both have a surprise on the inside.

Features such as the solid cherry wood, hand carved lions, flashing lights, stained glass, and a model of an old radio station [...]

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Custom Retro Mid-century Modern Jukebox in action

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on July 19, 2011

Watch Kevin Mack demo his Ipod Jukebox liquor cabinet on the Woodcraft blog at the New England Home Show!

Ipod Jukebox liquor cabinet

Kevin’s goal was to create mid-century modern piece in a new and inventive way. He sought to make a piece for the New England Home Show that would “catch your eye [...]

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