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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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Chain Maille Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on May 11, 2012

If you’ve only associated the linked metal rings of chain maille with medieval armor and historical reenactments, take a look at the chain maille jewelry our CustomMade artisans have created for their customers.  Although chain maille (or maille, chainmail, and other variations) was manufactured for centuries as armor for warriors across Europe, the Middle East, [...]

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Bamboo Options for Custom Cabinets

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on May 4, 2012

Choosing bamboo for your custom cabinets doesn’t mean your décor inspirations are limited to Gilligan’s Island reruns.  Bamboo is a versatile material that can work in crisp, clean Asian-inspired, modern, and even traditional styles.  Bamboo’s strength and natural resistance to swelling at high moisture levels make it a practical choice, too, for kitchens and bathroom [...]

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A Little Change Makes All the Difference: Pictures of Kitchen Backsplash Ideas for Small Spaces

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on April 20, 2012

If you want to revamp your kitchen but don’t have the budget for a full remodel, here are some kitchen backsplash ideas and pictures of backsplashes by our CustomMade artisans that show you don’t need a lot of space to make a big impact.

Untapped Resource created this “Fruit of the Vine” kitchen mural, a [...]

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Industrial Furniture Style

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on April 6, 2012

A spectre is haunting the design world: the spectre of industrial style.

What was once synonymous with workaday life, writes Lisa Frederick in the industrial style Ideabook for the home design website Houzz, has become a trendy style characterized by a focus on “utilitarian surfaces, stripped-back architecture, and salvaged objects” and a refreshing, unpretentious, “proletarian [...]

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Iconic American Design for Your Home: Custom Spool-Turned Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on March 9, 2012

What is spool-turned furniture?  Although most frequently associated with antique beds and cribs, furniture of all kinds can feature distinctive lathe-turned columns that resemble stacked sewing spools.  This wood turning style has also enjoyed repeated resurgences of popularity in the United States.

As Amy Azzarito of Design*Sponge writes in “Past & Present: Spool Beds and [...]

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Save Energy and Money (and Look Good) with Custom Window Treatments

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on February 24, 2012

Going custom not only can make your home look fabulous, it can save money.  High quality custom pieces built to last are a wonderful long-term investment, and custom window treatments can also help lower your energy costs year round.  In the press release, “Custom Curtains Save Energy, Cut Heating Costs–and Transform a Room,” Jan Jessup of [...]

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Not Just for the Cement Pond: Custom Concrete Can Bring Oceans, Glaciers, and Colors into Your Home

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on February 10, 2012

Looking for a versatile, durable, sustainable, cost effective material for a custom furniture or remodeling project? Something trendy that can fit into a traditional style home, too?  Concrete, yes, concrete can fit the bill.  As Amy Burger observes in her recent article, “Concrete Offers Many Creative Uses for the Home,” for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch [...]

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Feng Shui and TV … in the Bedroom?

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on January 27, 2012

Take a look at this beautiful, custom master bed by Pagomo Designs.  Attractive and soothing curved shelves and drawers are built into a firm yet inviting headboard.  The footboard contains a lift for a flat screen TV.  The bed is perfect for this bedroom, and the rest of the space you can see in the [...]

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