CI Connection Summer 2005

Here’s what you’ll find in this edition of the CI Connection:
• Hot Iron – the SEBC in Orlando
• Color Your World
• Tips + Tools
• Creative Metal Showcase

Above: An installation in a cabin in central Wisconsin brings the outdoors in. A custom top bar panel design of curved and hand bent cat tails gives the interior of this rustic cabin a natural look with organic lines and a black paint finish.

This is where we showcase installed creative metal. If you have Custom Iron metal balusters, panels, or a stair you’re particularly proud of, send us a picture and we’ll feature it in an upcoming Custom Iron Connection. If we made a spiral or curving stair and it looks fabulous in your setting, send us a picture of it! You’ll get credit for the stair (if you choose), some “press” and a chance to showcase what you do. Let us show what Custom Iron and you can do together. Send digital pictures to jq@customiron.com. Send prints to Julie Quinn, Custom Iron, 400 1st Street East, Zumbrota, MN 55992.

A Horse of a Different Color – Custom Iron was asked to color match a sculpture of a horse with balusters to be installed in the customer’s home. This helpful service allows you to send us a sample of what you want matched and we’ll send back our options for the homeowner’s approval. For multi-hued samples and other color effects, the matching process can be quite complex. Sometimes this requires several approval attempts. We will do our best to achieve a finish that will be highly similar to the original sample.

Hot Iron
What’s hot in July is the SEBC in Orlando, Florida.We’ll be at the Not So Big Showhouse where you’ll have free tours and a bus going from the SEBC to the house. If you are going, please stop in and say hi to Paul from Custom Iron at the NSBSH. You should be getting the invitation (left) and a postcard with a great offer from Custom Iron in the mail. We hope to see you there!

a•mel•io•rate

To make or become better; improve.

Ameliorate your house’s exterior with new decorative metal shutter hinges and flower boxes from Custom Iron.

It’s all in the details.

A tip for sprucing up the outside of a home with a little help from Custom Iron is to upgrade the hinges on the window shutters with these decorative ones. Add a custom flower box, and you’ll have instant curb appeal! See other inspired gates, doors, and garden ornaments in the Creative Metal section of our catalog.