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Home Building Series, Part IV:
By Maura Taylor
Home & Living
Interiors:
custom built
furnishings
Mexico is home to some very talented and creative artisans who turn wood, bamboo, stone, rattan and other natural materials into beautifully crafted furnishings to fit your individual style, taste, budget and more importantly: measurements.
Start out with some basic ideas of style, design and materials. Photocopy or tag pages from home decorating magazines and interior design books so you have an idea of your aesthetic and can decide what material to use. Once you have a more concrete idea, a simple room layout or sketch will suffice; be sure to take accurate measurements so you know how much However, you can have just about anything space you have to work with. You can fill built to fit and probably at a fraction of what the room with representations of each these similar pieces would cost you in a piece of furnishing; it doesn’t have to be fancy home decorating store. Of course, it too detailed, just to give you an idea of how helps to have a bit of imagination and the your furniture will fit together and get you ability to visualize the piece, its design and closer to the ideal size and location of each materials and more importantly where and piece. You can either work independently how it will fit in with your dÊcor. The best or with a home decorating professional in way to begin conjuring up your new table, order to come up with a plan that fits your bed frame, entertainment center, cabinetry, style and interior space. etc. is to start looking through decorating magazines, catalogs and on even the Using your room basic layout, you can internet as a source of inspiration. start to think about materials for each piece; wood, bamboo, upholstered, rattan,
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The beauty of custom-built furnishings is you can build to fit exactly the spaces and contours of each room and area within your home. While most of us lean towards buying ready-made furnishings from our local Pottery Barn or Restoration Hardware, here we are limited in our store-bought options.