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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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Explore New Depths with Custom Inlays by Lighthouse Laser Arts

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on May 17, 2012

Explorers who followed their compasses and sailed beyond the horizon helped expand our understanding of the earth.  The world is no longer conceived as a flat expanse but a three-dimensional sphere.  The compass rose collection of inlaid flooring medallion by Lighthouse Laser Arts pays homage to nautical exploration and showcases another triumph over two-dimensional restrictions, [...]

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A Home for Your Imagination: CustomMade on Atticmag

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers on March 30, 2012

“Have you ever spent hours (or days) searching the internet for something that seemed to only exist in your imagination?” asks Allison Shops of Atticmag home design and décor blog.  “Or found something similar, but for whatever reason it’s just not quite right?”

How can you make your search a success? Come over to CustomMade [...]

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Go Outside the Lines with Custom Kitchen Cabinets

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on February 25, 2012

Shopping for kitchen cabinetry? Cabinets can occupy a great deal of space physically and set the tone stylistically for your kitchen, that all-important workspace and gathering place.  Whatever variety you can find among available retail pieces will be dwarfed by your material and design options when you have custom kitchen cabinets built specifically to fit [...]

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Custom Gifts for Hanukkah

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on December 23, 2011

Being in the middle of something is sometimes the best time to plan ahead.  Just like Christmastime can put you in the right frame of mind to think about holiday gifts and decorations not only for this year but next year, the middle of the 8-day Jewish “Feast of Dedication,” is a good time to [...]

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Steve Jobs and Lessons for Entrepreneurs (with Corollaries for Custom Artisans)

Posted by Pedro in For Makers, The Pro Shop on October 31, 2011

The death of Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple and the force behind the “iRevolution” (bet you’re not far from an iPod, iPhone, or iPad), is a great loss for all of us.  However, Jobs was “more than just a tech-wiz,” blogger Alvina Lopez reminds us.  He was also “an incredible innovator and [...]

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Custom Jewelry Mix Tape: Gift Ideas for Music Lovers

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on October 2, 2011

“Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do’s and don’ts. First of all you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.”

Rob Gordon, High Fidelity

Looking for a special gift for a music lover whose only musical talent is great taste [...]

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Inviting Textures for Custom Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on August 12, 2011

A pool of water begs you to join it, even if it’s only by running your hand through it.  Sand feels like nothing else, solid yet fleeting in your grasp.  The bark of a tree is rough but still soothing to the touch. Textures can be appreciated with the eye, but their siren song is [...]

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Custom Stained Glass Transoms

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on July 2, 2011

Light is an ever-returning visitor in your home.  If you greet your radiant guest with custom stained glass, it will leave behind unique and ever-changing “calling cards of light” to call your own.

So why not leave a little space open for some luminous “over-the-transom” messages?

If you’d like to receive unexpected dramatic blockbusters or [...]

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