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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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Contemporary Custom Furniture by Heather and Fred Studios

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on June 28, 2012

Ready to move away from mass-produced furniture but not sure how to navigate the waters of custom furniture design?  CustomMade artisans Heather and Fred Studios can design and build custom furniture in close collaboration with their customers – be they homeowners, interior designers, architects, or a combination – in a style that’s “contemporary and artistic, [...]

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Kickstarting a New Beginning: David Rasmussen Design

Posted by Pedro in on June 22, 2012

In an article in the Wall Street Journal last spring, the artichoke table by David Rasmussen Design was featured as an example of the remarkable custom furniture projects consumers could start through CustomMade.  The distinctive side table helped spread the word about the amazing artisans to be found through our website.

The CustomMade community now [...]

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Love To Know CustomMade? An Interview with CEO Mike Salguero

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on August 8, 2011

If you’re the type of consumer who wants to learn everything about a product or service before you buy, the CustomMade approach is right up your alley.  When you commission a custom piece, be it furniture, jewelry, or cabinetry, you’ll be in a unique position: you’ll know and control every aspect of your project, from [...]

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The Functional and the Ferocious: CustomMade Development Team Favorites

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds, The People Behind CustomMade on June 14, 2011

CustomMade.com is a stage for expert creators to showcase their skills; behind the scenes keeping the show running stands a colorful staff with a totally eclectic range of personalities and styles. In a recent burst of summertime whimsy, I thought it’d be fun to take a snapshot of each CustomMade department’s favorite custom finds of [...]

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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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Custom Cabinetry for Your Radiators

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

The area around your radiator may not look the part now, but with the right custom cabinet, that space can feature versatile and eye-catching furniture.  Quality custom built cabinet makers can create built-ins and surrounds that take full advantage of radiators’ typical locations and sizes without interfering with their normal operation.  If radiators heat your [...]

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Open Your Custom Living Room Design with Creative Interior Doorways

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 27, 2011

Adding screens and multi-faceted furniture to your custom living room design can help define smaller areas within a large room or create multiple points of interest in a small room.  If you are looking for more ways to fine-tune the sense of space you want your living room to convey, you and your CustomMade artisan [...]

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Elegant Strength: Custom Walnut Furniture

Posted by CustomMade in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 9, 2011

Elegant strength is the best way to describe the character of walnut.  A dense, hard wood that can range in color from creamy white to dark brown, walnut also has beautiful grain figuring that by itself is striking but can also complement other woods or materials such as tile, glass, or metal.   Walnut is an [...]

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John Herbert and the Boston Furniture Collaborative: WOW

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, Maker Spotlight, The Wide World of Custom Making on December 14, 2010

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you look at this clock?

At a recent juried furniture show, maker John Herbert of the Boston Furniture Collaborative found that the crowd had a pretty unanimous reaction:

“I would stand in my little booth, watching people as they walked around, and people would stop [...]

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