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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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A Matter of Perspective: Cities and Neighborhoods in Custom Artwork

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 26, 2011

In a manner of speaking, a skyline is the face of a city, and commissioned sculptures and paintings of cityscapes as familiar silhouettes of buildings and landmarks are like formal portraits.  Faces reveal a great deal, but cities, like people, have features and qualities that might escape the perspective of a formal portrait, characteristics that [...]

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Custom Water Fountains

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 17, 2011

Creating an environment that unites the sensations of tranquility and energy can be challenging, but it will pay dividends emotionally and mentally both at home and in the workplace.  An elegant custom made water fountain can help create a calming yet invigorating zone either indoors or outdoors.  Come see what can happen when our CustomMade [...]

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Custom Boxes That Will Make You Feel Like a Box of Birds

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

How are you feeling? Box of birds, mate.

If you’re looking for a clever way to add a little personality to a custom gift box or a custom decorative box for yourself, ask a CustomMade artisan to add the image of a bird to your project.  You can choose a bird that symbolizes freedom or [...]

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Frozen in Time – Portraits of Water in Custom Glassworks

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

“You cannot step twice into the same stream,” observed the Greek philosopher Heraclitus.

Whether in the form of a running river or a spring shower, water is a dynamic element.  With great skill, however, artisans can create representations of water in the medium of glass that seem to hold it fast while preserving its protean [...]

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Elevate Your Style with Custom Made Metal Railings

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

The sky is the limit when you choose custom metalworking for your railing needs.

How would you like to get there? Beanstalk or airplane?

Perhaps you’d prefer to climb a mountain?

Indoors or outdoors, with custom made metal railings you can select a design and motif that can transform your stairs, balconies, or decks into [...]

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Fireworks in Stone and Metal: Custom Outdoor Fire Features

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 8, 2011

Even with warmer nights ahead, the darkness and the evening chill can cut short your leisure time on your patio or backyard.  Electrical lights are convenient, but sometimes they interfere with the mood you’d like for your after hour plans.  Since you’re outside, consider adding a custom stone or custom metal outdoor fire feature to [...]

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A Custom Steel Castle by Nop’s Metalworks

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

A custom steel castle in your backyard is likely to attract some attention. CustomMade artisan Louis Nop’s of Nop’s Metalworks unique custom metal creation was featured in an article in the Addison County Independent.  Read about how a vacation to Ireland, master craftsmanship, and a desire to share that craftsmanship with the next [...]

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The “Siren of TI” Chopper Custom Metal Sculpture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on February 15, 2011

CustomMade artisan Scott Cawood has wrought a sea change on a motorcycle.

If you’ve visited Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas recently, you may have already seen the “Siren of TI” Chopper, an amazing custom sculpture by Scott Cawood Metal Artist and Metropolitan Choppers.

Commissioned by the casino to capture the essence of their “Sirens [...]

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