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Dreams and Themes: Custom Headboards

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on August 3, 2012

What visions can greet you in the morning or send you to dreamland at night with custom headboards.  Our CustomMade artisans can help you crown your bed with fantastic scenes, meaningful motifs, and personal twists on classic designs.  Sleep on these completed custom headboards from the CustomMade galleries for some design inspiration.

Whatever size bed [...]

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Back to School in Custom Style: Student Gift Ideas

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

Fall is around the corner.  Looking for unique student gift ideas for your returning scholar? Have a CustomMade artisan create a truly one-of-a-kind accessory that will make your child the talk of the playground or the grad seminar (in a positive way).  You can find inspiration for all sorts of items in our CustomMade galleries, [...]

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Custom Dog Furniture: Doghouses, Beds, Gates, and Crates

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on July 11, 2012

Did you know you could have custom dog furniture uniquely designed to suit your canine friend’s (and your) needs and personality? Our CustomMade artisans will bring the same craftsmanship and attention to detail to custom dog furniture projects that they put into their works for their human customers.  Your handcrafted dog furniture will fit your [...]

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Custom Rustic Chic Furniture and Décor

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on June 1, 2012

What is rustic chic?

For some people, rustic style is akin to “decorating like an old western saloon.”  Real and mythic images of the Old West, rural America, and iconic log cabins (and saloons) are cultural touchstones that, of course, loom large in our style vocabulary.

So where does something like this rustic wood coat/towel [...]

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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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First Impressions: Botanical Custom Ceramics by Suzanne Crane Fine Stoneware

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on April 5, 2012

Delicate biological remains and impressions in stone that for all their fragility have endured for ages, fossils in nature are incredible survivors.  Botanical imprints in custom pottery not only add unique natural signatures to the ceramic pieces but also evoke the quiet strength and beauty of fossils.

The botanical custom ceramics of Suzanne Crane Fine [...]

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Wormy Chestnut Custom Furniture

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Founder's Blog on February 18, 2012

What’s in a name? How does wormy chestnut strike you? CustomMade CEO and Co-founder Mike Salguero discusses the distinctive appearance and rich history of this reclaimed wood in his Stylelist Home blog from 2/12/12.  Be sure to follow him on Stylelist as he continues to spread the custom word!

Despite a growing awareness of the [...]

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Preserving the Architectural Past in the Internet Age

Posted by Pedro in For Makers, The Pro Shop on December 26, 2011

The distressed look is a wonderful way for a new piece of custom furniture to gain the appearance and character of an old heirloom piece, but when the item is actually made from salvaged antique elements, the furniture doesn’t just look the part; it is a part of the past.  Take this rustic table with [...]

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“From the Forest to Your Home” – Custom Furniture by Rick Hensley of RockyTop WoodWorks

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on December 22, 2011

Do you have just the right amount of space for a custom furniture or built-in project but only a rough idea of what you want? A RockyTop WoodWorks customer found himself in this situation.

Here is an excerpt from the review the client wrote for artisan Rick Hensley:

He creates everything from rustic [...]

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