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Creative Collaboration: Custom Furniture and More for Restaurants and Nightspots

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

If you’re entering the restaurant business, you most likely have a very good idea of the cuisine you wish to offer and a pretty good idea of the ambience you want to establish.  However, unless you’re a polymath, you’re probably not a woodworker, custom furniture maker, or stained glass artisan, but the furniture and décor [...]

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Fascinating. Custom Accessories with Science Fiction Motifs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 24, 2011

A satellite crashing back to Earth?

Particles traveling faster than light?

This can only mean one thing.

The aliens are here.

We’ve featured some amazing custom home décor items inspired by fantastic creatures and ancient myths on our blog.  Our modern mythology of science fiction can also be a fertile source for your custom imagination.  [...]

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Unique Hardware Designs for Your Custom Doors

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 16, 2011

Adding custom doors to your home?  Whether they’ll face the world outside or divide your interior space, don’t forget the amazing hardware options a CustomMade artisan can bring to your project.  Whether you’re looking for an antique reproduction or a whimsical touch, you can get the final details for your custom wood doors or glass [...]

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Touched by Lightning, Reclaimed Wood Continues to Grow

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 11, 2011

“The wood wants to grow.  Always.”

With this powerful statement by artisan Chris Beidel of Pernt, THIS Visits begins a video interview with the CustomMade artisan about his journey from architecture to furniture design.  In a recent blog post on live edge design, we’ve featured this cherry slab bench by Chris, made from a [...]

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Kinetic Custom Sculpture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 29, 2011

Custom made sculptures that incorporate motion can exert an almost irresistible attraction.  A mobile spinning in the wind calls out, Watch Me! A pendulum waiting to trace an arc calls out, Push Me!

Check out this custom motorized marble machine by Salusa Glassworks, Inc.. Commissioned by a client who lives in a remodeled firehouse, this [...]

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Take These Custom Bookcases for a Spin

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 19, 2011

If you associate rotating bookshelves strictly with stores and waiting rooms, think again.  Sure-fire conversation pieces for your living room or study, custom bookcases designed to stand away from the walls can function as multi-faceted room dividers and provide plenty of storage with a compact footprint.  And if you happen to be shopping for retail [...]

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A painting gives birth to a custom dining table

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on August 16, 2011

This week’s favorite custom find is the DT-86 Dining Table by Antoine Proulx, LLC:

A painting inspires the idea for the custom table:

Believe it or not, our  favorite custom find this week – a custom dining table with sweeping , almost illusory lines – was inspired by the abstract figurative painter Francis [...]

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Making Room for the Unique in Custom Kitchen Remodeling

Posted by Pedro in For Makers, The Pro Shop on August 15, 2011

Have you ever had clients whose dream custom kitchen remodel project included ornate wood moulding in a contemporary style home?

Kingsley Adegboye’s recent article in Vanguard News highlights both the appeal of custom kitchen remodeling and the difficulties homeowners and designers may face in creating a design that will complement the house.  More attention and [...]

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Plant Motifs and Metalwork for Your Custom Railing Projects

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 14, 2011

If you peruse our custom railing gallery, you’ll find that metal railings with botanical motifs are popular projects at CustomMade.  Plant life exquisitely rendered in metal can bring the outdoors inside and add a dynamic sense of growth to any stairway or deck.  However, at first glance, plants and metal seem like an unlikely pairing.  [...]

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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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