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Are You Ready for Some CustomMade Football?

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on February 5, 2012

Super Bowl Sunday. The big day has finally arrived.  Are you rooting for the Dynasty or the Giant killers?

If you’ll be watching the game just for the commercials, here’s a post from the vault of the CustomMade blog that will interest you far more than this entry.

Still here? Good.

Need to express your [...]

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Organization To Go: Custom Storage Solutions for your Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on February 3, 2012

On two wheels, four wheels, or more, our vehicles receive a great deal of attention from us, in the form of affection, time, and, of course, money.  It’s no surprise, as William Rau of Rau Automotive Woodwork has observed, that we seek to personalize the interiors of our “second homes.” Like any home, a vehicle [...]

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The History Behind Reclaimed Wood

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 29, 2012

Each piece of furniture in the Homestead Series by Lyndon Furniture, like this Homestead reclaimed lumber sideboard, not only tells a story but also has a history.  Shawn Straffin writes:

About 250 years ago New England was in its infancy.  The people who settled our country were undaunted by the task of establishing [...]

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CustomMade Can Help You Create Rooms Within Rooms

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 28, 2012

Have a large room or open space that you would like to subdivide into smaller, more intimate settings or conversation areas?  Florida-based architect Bud Dietrich has a passion for turning his “clients’ houses into their homes,” and in his article “Architect’s Toolbox: A Room Within a Room” for the home design website Houzz, he takes [...]

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Backed into a Corner? Come Out Swinging with Custom Cabinets

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 22, 2012

Whether you’re redoing a room that’s pinched for space or trying to give a remote corner a more welcoming face to the world, custom made cabinetry specifically designed for your home’s most troublesome intersections is the solution you’ve been seeking.  Do you need particular cabinet doors?  Have to contend with a challenging arrangement of existing [...]

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Computer HardWear for Your Custom Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 21, 2012

If steampunk chic takes re-imagined 19th century technology and turns it inside out (and is not just, well, stuff with gears glued on), what do we call a style that re-imagines and repurposes 20th/21st century technology and turns it inside out in custom jewelry?

In our blog post, “Tech Transformed – Custom Jewelry that Re-Imagines [...]

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Your Home Remembered in Reclaimed Wood Furniture

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 18, 2012

Although home remodeling is a wonderful opportunity to turn to the future and develop a new look for your space, your home’s unique history and your family’s own stories can be a part of that future though unique custom furniture that literally reclaims and incorporates pieces from your past.  Take a look at a few [...]

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Custom Mailboxes

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 14, 2012

Hidden in plain sight, many objects we touch daily exist for us mentally only in functional terms if we consider them at all.  And we usually consider them only when they break down and need to be repaired or replaced, like when the humble mailbox meets an ignominious end at a truck’s bumper or after [...]

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CustomMade for the Bride, Part 4: Something Blue

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 8, 2012

Something old, something new,

Something borrowed, something blue,

And a silver sixpence in her shoe.

Although the color white is strongly associated with weddings in Western cultures, blue has also been worn by brides since Ancient Roman times through the late 19th century, a practice that has led to proverbs like, “Marry in blue, lover [...]

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CustomMade for the Bride, Part 3: Something Borrowed

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on January 7, 2012

Something old, something new,

Something borrowed, something blue,

And a silver sixpence in her shoe.

If you’re a friend or relative of a bride, you have an opportunity to help complete her ensemble with a loan of a special piece of jewelry or accessory.  Looking for a way to start a tradition (or a queue [...]

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