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Style and Space Solutions: Reclaimed Wood Projects by Hand Made Furniture Design

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on November 16, 2012

Do reclaimed wood projects conjure images of antique furniture or traditional styles?

They don’t have to.

CustomMade artisan Avi Mossiyov of Hand Made Furniture Design can create pieces in contemporary, modernist, and industrial styles from reclaimed century-old hardwood timber.

Part of reclaimed wood’s allure is the special beauty and visual character of the aged materials.  [...]

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Colorful Histories: Reclaimed Wood Designs by R & R Designworks

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on November 8, 2012

What colors come to mind when you visualize reclaimed wood designs?

Using reclaimed wood for a custom project is a wonderful and eco-friendly way to create furniture and installations with unique backstories.  The past lives of reclaimed wood, whether it was once part of a barn, a factory, or even a favorite tree struck by [...]

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Architectural Elements with Industrial Style by DumpTruck Design

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on September 6, 2012

Exclusively designed custom architectural elements can help turn your place of business into a memorable environment your customers will want to return to and share with their friends.  CustomMade artisan Cory Wagner of DumpTruck Design creates fixtures, built-ins, and other architectural elements in close collaboration with his commercial clients and other designers.  His completed projects [...]

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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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Ideas for Space-Saving Extension Tables

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

Would you like your extension tables with or without leaves?

Whether you’re looking for a traditional dining table design that can accommodate extra guests or something that will make the most of a room with challenging dimensions, our CustomMade artisans can design custom extension tables to your exact specifications and solve some vexing space and [...]

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Let Your Design Personality Shine Through Your Custom Kitchen

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on May 18, 2012

What does your kitchen say about your design personality?

On NPR’s “Daily Picture Show” blog from March 2012, John Asante discussed photographer Ellen Silverman’s photography series, Spare Beauty: The Cuban Kitchen, and invited readers to reflect on their own kitchens in “What Our Kitchens Might Say About Us.” He wrote: “It’s an interesting concept that [...]

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Make Your House Unique with Kyle Buckner Designs

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on May 3, 2012

“Can’t find what you want in the stores?” CustomMade artisan Kyle Buckner founded Kyle Buckner Designs so he could create custom furniture with which his clients could feel a connection.  “Anything you can imagine, we can make,” he writes.  Kyle’s CustomMade portfolio is filled with stunning examples of his signature contemporary collections, which he can [...]

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A Home for Your Imagination: CustomMade on Atticmag

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers on March 30, 2012

“Have you ever spent hours (or days) searching the internet for something that seemed to only exist in your imagination?” asks Allison Shops of Atticmag home design and décor blog.  “Or found something similar, but for whatever reason it’s just not quite right?”

How can you make your search a success? Come over to CustomMade [...]

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The History Behind Reclaimed Wood

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 29, 2012

Each piece of furniture in the Homestead Series by Lyndon Furniture, like this Homestead reclaimed lumber sideboard, not only tells a story but also has a history.  Shawn Straffin writes:

About 250 years ago New England was in its infancy.  The people who settled our country were undaunted by the task of establishing [...]

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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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