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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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Surf and Turf: Custom Surfboards and Furniture by MakerUSA

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

In any custom project, the customer and the artisan bring their diverse expectations and experiences to bear as they share and refine a vision for their creation.  The collaborative nature of custom work, that intersection of perspectives and skills, is particularly apparent when a team of makers is involved in the process.

The sport of [...]

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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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What is Live Edge Design?

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on July 22, 2011

It’s easier to identify furniture made from live edge wood than to understand what live edge means.  When you look at custom live edge furniture, you probably can imagine if not see the profile of the tree that yielded the wood for the piece.  If you examine the edges of the wood slabs, the rough, [...]

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Outside the Box: Custom Boxes That Find New Uses for Traditional Designs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 25, 2011

Can you recall the last time you saw a typographer’s tray?

As technology advances, the forms of many everyday objects are transformed radically.  Those objects that cannot change quietly disappear.  Some may reappear in museum collections, while many will be consigned to the antique stores of history.  However, before a thing becomes a relic or [...]

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