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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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Steve Jobs and Lessons for Entrepreneurs (with Corollaries for Custom Artisans)

Posted by Pedro in For Makers, The Pro Shop on October 31, 2011

The death of Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple and the force behind the “iRevolution” (bet you’re not far from an iPod, iPhone, or iPad), is a great loss for all of us.  However, Jobs was “more than just a tech-wiz,” blogger Alvina Lopez reminds us.  He was also “an incredible innovator and [...]

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Futurepieces Past: Multipurpose and Moveable Custom Desks Inspired by Innovative Historic Designs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on October 30, 2011

Halloween Eve is the perfect time for talking about ghosts and fears.  If you search carefully, you’ll surely find a few ghosts in the CustomMade galleries.  If you read our blog, you might even find a post or two that frightens you.  Or perhaps, you just don’t believe in ghosts.  As for those scary stories, [...]

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Simple, Stately, Dr. Seussly: Custom Tables and More by Pat Megowan Designer/Maker

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on October 6, 2011

For artisan Pat Megowan of Pat Megowan Designer/Maker, custom tables are a passion: “Custom dining tables, coffee tables, end tables, hall tables, from simple to stately to Dr. Seussly, I like them all.” Take a close look at the following selections from the Pat Megowan Designer/Maker portfolio on CustomMade.com.  These tables (and one stool) embody [...]

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The IFDA predicts how home life in America will change between now and 2020

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on September 19, 2011

The popular home design blog ApartmentTherapy recently wrote an interesting article summing up how 2,000 members of the IFDA (International Furnishings and Design Association) predict that home life will change between now and 2020. Here are few highlights of the article that may be interesting to makers of home goods and furnishings out there…

Small [...]

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Flexible Strategies: Adjustable Custom Furniture

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

Have you ever wished you had an attractive coffee table big enough for all your guests to gather around in your living room?  If only you could get it out of the way easily when the party is over.  Do you have a room with a great view or another beautiful feature but an unusual [...]

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Transforming Furniture Part 2: A whole new level

Posted by Seth in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers, The Wide World of Custom Making on September 21, 2010

As a follow up to the post Transforming Furniture Part 1, this time we take a look at some amazing videos that show multi functional furniture at its best. Break out the popcorn, its showtime!

First, I stumbled upon these videos that really peaked my interest while fishing for the latest in transforming pieces. Below [...]

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