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Eco-Friendly Custom Furniture – How to be Green with your furniture

Posted by Seth in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers, Maker Spotlight on February 15, 2010

Commissioning eco-friendly custom furniture can be a wonderful way to help the environment and decorate your home beautifully all at the same time.

But what does “eco-friendly” mean when you are commissioning custom furniture?  Guest blogger Douglas Bialor, owner of The Hat Factory Furniture Co./Hudson Cabinetry and Design, discusses what being green meant in the [...]

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Woodworkers and other Custom Providers Get their Due

Posted by CustomMade in Company News and Info, Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers, For Makers, The Wide World of Custom Making on January 25, 2010

Wired Magazine says we’re “The New Industrial Revolution”

This weekend I received my Feb 2010 Wired Magazine in the mail and was thrilled to see the cover story, “The New Industrial Revolution” written by editor-in-chief Chris Anderson.  Informative and inspiring, it portrayed custom makers and designers of all different types as drivers of the new economy.

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Custom Furniture in Art Nouveau Style

Posted by CustomMade in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers, Maker Spotlight, Our Favorite Custom Finds on January 8, 2010

William Doub Custom Furniture designs and builds exquisite Art Nouveau style furniture and architectural interiors.  We asked them to give us a bit of history on the Art Nouveau style and its impact on furniture design.

DEFINITION AND HISTORY OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE

Art Nouveau refers to an international movement and style of art that [...]

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How to Commission Furniture Built For You

Posted by CustomMade in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on January 6, 2010

You need a display cabinet for your prized art-work?  Or you want the same desk that your brother inherited?  An elegant bed or a one of a kind music stand?  It’s possible to have furniture built to meet your specific needs.

Guest blogger and Fine Woodworking contributing editor Chris Becksvoort of C. H. Becksvoort Designs walks us through [...]

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The Lure of Figured Wood Furniture

Posted by CustomMade in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers, Maker Spotlight on December 29, 2009

Tiger maple tables, Birdseye maple furniture, Curly cherry, Flame birch. Guest contributor Bob Kloes of Kloes Custom Furniture shares with us what it is that makes the furniture made from these woods so unique.

Most all the furniture I have built and sold in the last 10 years has been made from one or more of [...]

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Using Custom Kitchen Furniture (instead of Cabinets)

Posted by CustomMade in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers, Maker Spotlight on November 10, 2009

Sometimes using custom kitchen furniture instead of cabinets can be a viable option.

When CustomMade.com subscriber YesterTec first created their ‘unfitted’ line of Kitchen Workstation Furniture, their designers really didn’t think there was much of a difference between cabinetry and furniture.  Not so as it turns out, the two concepts are as different as night [...]

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