Portfolio

Custom designs in wood. Handmade furniture & art.
walnut cabinet and overhead shelving, looking up front the floor and focused on custom ceramic handpull and handle.
standalone bookcase with custom ceramic hardware
living room fireplace with a walnut bookcase, shelving to the immediate right.
idyllic niche cabinetry
Edge and underside of a Red Oak table top and base. Displaying the unique curvature of the black steel base.
“double-helix” base
video description: panning left to right, custom Red Oak table and base.

The finish on the entire piece is beautiful, and I know this will become an heirloom we will cherish forever.

jenny g.
Nightstand made from cherry wood, overhead. Swirling wood grain and dovetails on full display.
cherry wood nightstand with dovetails

Caleb and Lisa helped walked us through a full design-to-build process that yielded two absolutely beautiful side tables full of handmade details, personal touches, and tons of collaborative elements.

daniel g.
Espresso bar. Trestle style table with maple legs and red oak footers with a walnut tabletop and bridle below. Live edge. Close-up shot.
live edge, standing bar
walnut tabletop edge exhibiting shimmer or curling, which is naturally occurring in this species.
walnut shimmer, natural tabletop
Live-edge, walnut propagation stations. Showing undulation of wood and filled with glass test tubes holding plant cuttings.
living wall, undulating walnut tiers
walnut propagation stations with 5 tiers rising up a wall. underside vantage showing live edges, test tubes, and plant cuttings.
propagation station, from below
Accents of an entryway cabinet. Upper case of cabinet shows letterbox shelves, drawerface, and four small shelves. Featured wood grain of ash, elm, cherry, and walnut. 45 degree side angle.
upper casework, entryway cabinet
Cabinet base made from white oak, showcasing endgrain cascading down the feet and hand-cut dovetails trailing off from the center of the image. Close-up.
white oak end grain, cross beams
Top and bottom of entrway cabinet with bookmatched panels and swooping curve on upper casework. Left side vantage.
book matched side panels
Box joints and dovetails on top and bottom of entrway case. Black walnut with sapwood supports of upper case. Natural knot is featured.
hand-cut dovetails and box joints
Kitchen server station. Top portion is made from white oak with undulating curves that come to a landing on the right side. Finger joints featured in front of top. Bblack stained, ash legs surround the piece with interlocking mortise and tenons prominently featured. Center portion contains floating cherry and walnut panel to cloak empty space. Sliding dovetails in cherry and walnut. Cherry storage cabinet on right side. Bottom storage space comprised of white walnut with matching grain that waterfalls around the piece.
kitchen server, traditional joinery

…the part you can’t visualize is the attention to detail on the service and planning aspect of the project.

dancing gnome brewery
Kitchen server station's hidden space. Left side view.
hidden storage space
Pin Oak propagation station. Curved undulated front revealing test tubes from below. Person, Caleb Sisco, seen holding the station in front of a brick wall.
pin oak, singular propagation station
Pin Oak propagation station. Curved undulated front revealing test tubes from below. Person, Caleb Sisco, seen holding the station in front of a brick wall.
sculpted plant propagation
plant propagation station made from white oak hanging on the wall of a private residence home.
propagation station, in-situ
Bar shelving. Featuring front of shelving unit, with keyed mortises and tenons, and a wine rack. A walnut array of thin slats artistically arrange on top of shelving is highlighted by overhead lighting.
full bar shelving
Full bar shelving profile. Keyed mortise and tenons, knock down joinery. Close-up of cascading shelf supports that decrease in size from top to bottom, creating a curved effect.
cascading supports, mortise, and tenons
Slim dovetails and through tenon of the exterior case of a propagation shelf. Full of plant cuttings held in place on the shelf. Natural wood knot shown prominently from this ride side angle.
natural knot, prominently center
Full propagation shelf in background and cappuccino on a table in the foreground of a coffee shop located in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Warm lighting inside with glass garage doors exposing the treelined streetscape.
espresso bar, panned out
Full propagation shelf with clear glass bottles displaying plant cuttings. Butternut and white oak wood species. Natural knot prominently featured in center front of shelf.
full plant shares
video description: Caleb Sisco describes a bespoke walnut cabinet panning left to right.
Bar cabinet. Panel doors, matching walnut grain, white ash handles. Sapwood, gradation of natural wood grain colors are featured on the middle drawer.
sapwood panel drawers

…he was able to get a really good match of the existing casework and the quality of what they built far exceeded our expectations.”

kris g.
video description: two hands hold a custom inlaid frame that is in focus. Once the video progresses with the sound of a church bell, the frame fades and reveals an aerial view of the Lawrenceville neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA.
Cherry frame with white oak, ash, and walnut inlays in a geometric linear pattern. Frame is being held horizontally by two hands in the foreground with the Troy Hill neighborhood mural on a building facade in the background. The frame encapsulates, or frames, the mural.
encased, troy hill, pgh. pa
two wooden bookcases filling two niches between a fireplace in a client's home.
‘mirroring’ bookcases with accessible hardware

Paraplu’s dedication to craftsmanship and sustainability is unparalleled… In addition to fitting these pieces to our physical space and collaborating on overall design and aesthetics, they were careful to consider how to make them accessible for a toddler (how she uses them now and how she’ll use them as she grows).

mikala f.
cabinet portion of a larger bookcase fitted perfectly into a recessed niche of a living room.
cabinetry and record shelving
Overhead vantage of a Red Oak custom tabletop. Pink in color with three distinct sections from three sister slabs. Naturally spalted, also referred to as marbled, inlays.
Red Oak inlaid tabletop
White brick house as a backdrop displaying the underside of a Red Oak table top and base. Displaying the unique curvature of the black steel base.
custom Red Oak table, with a twist
hand cut dovetailed drawer fitted with custom drawer pull
drawer elements
video description: bespoke nightstands with hand-cut details
Standing bar; sapwood and walnut bridle prominently featured, shadows of decorative accents on the maple legs. Moody, dark photograph.
walnut bridle
In progress, hand cut dovetails in walnut slab. Hand tools positioned to the left of the dovetails.
espresso bar, hand-cut

The pieces are a constant point of conversation with customers and have given our shop a finished and artistic feel…”

espresso a’mano
plant propagation living wall showcasing cuttings of different shapes and sizes. All contained within test tubes held within a walnut slab of wood. slender black grow lights shine on the propagation stations.
replete plant wall
three miniature propagation stations in the foreground with larger propagation stations in the background. Red valentines and monstera fill the test tubes and drape over the stations.
miniature propagation wall
Entrway cabinet. Interior bottom case includes a coat rack. Upper case includes a letterbox and uniquely designed storage and open-shelf compartments. Made from visibly various wood species: elm, cherry, walnut, spalted maple, and ash. Sliding door contains vivid swirling woodgrain. Paneling back made from cherry with a walnut center board.
french inspired, stand-alone cabinetry
Profile of letterbox slots. Side view of cabinet with an apparent swoop that is featured on the upper left casework that extends from the top to the center landing.
swoop profile with letterbox and drawer
Entrway cabinet in situ. Flower bouquets emerging from from internal hidden shelf that is held up by the sliding door.
hidden interior shelf, exterior bouquet
Unique shelving on two walls featuring personal effects of homeowners. Panned out image showing two wall shelving units encompassing a fireplace in the center.
shelving, customized to space

The work is incredibly beautiful. It’s also a structural marvel…”

k.m.
Shelving structure hung on white wall. Shelving made from white oak using traditional Japanese joinery. Panned out image of two shelving units surrounding a fireplace.
sleek minimalism
Mitered exposed tenon on kitchen server station top corner. Detail of front leg meeting the top of the piece. Finger joints and mitered through mortise and tenon.
mitered exposed tenon
Server station. Overhead vantage.
cherry + white walnut mingle
video description: a sliding dovetail is removed, followed by a singular panel on a custom tap list. When the panel is replaced, the entire tap list is revealed in a dark setting.
Brewery Taplist. Contains maple sliding dovetails, maple boards stained black for menu selection. Red oak frame center and exterior case. Person, Caleb Sisco, sitting in front of taplist.
center vertebrae detail, tap list

[Their] design was innovative and efficient and executed perfectly…”

hop farm brewing company
Large mirror. Frame constructed with incorporated shelf. Hard maple.
extending space, large mirror and frame
mirror ledge and joinery.
mirror joinery, through tenon
walnut sapwood shadowbox. Corner close-up showing gradation of natural colors from brown, blue, to beige. Overhead.
shadowbox, natural highlights
walnut sapwood shadowbox. Corner close-up showing gradation of natural colors from brown, blue, to beige. Left side.
sapwood, waterfall of color
walnut sapwood on display at the top and side of a custom shadowbox.
warmed up walnut, shadowbox
Walnut shadowbox with maple splines held by person, Caleb Sisco.
walnut shadowbox with splines
Butternut wood frame. Distinct wood grain with various gradation of natural colors. Head on view.
native PA hardwood grain
Butternut wood frame with walnut splines. Distinct wood grain with various gradation of natural colors.
butternut wood, corner vantage
man holding splined, mitered walnut frame.
doorfront with a handmade notch in the top of a doorfront with custom hardware in the background.
hand-carved notch, door front
the first shelf, a vinyl record shelf with dividers every foot, on a larger shelving unit.
gently curved, vinyl record shelf dividers
two hands and alternating thin strips of red oak wood on an in-progress tabletop. the strips of wood are spalted red oak and the table below is a pink hue, which is naturally occuring in red oak.
mapping out hand-cut inlays
steel table base, close up, resembling spokes.
amplified underside
hard carved legs, red oak and maple
night stands next to white brick wall of artist studio
night and day stands
Tabletop underside, top of table leg; highlighting the profile of the handcarving in the legs with red oak and maple species.
hard carved legs, red oak and maple
hand placed on top of walnut tabletop with dovetail inlays that secure the surface from moving over time.
cherry on top, dovetail inlays
Live-edge, walnut propagation stations. Showing useveral tiers of walnut live edge slabs that have been filled with glass test tubes holding plant cuttings.
vertical greenery, indoor decor
two plant walls shown, propagation stations to the left and shelving unit to the right.
dual aspect, plant theaters
swooping left profile showing entrway cabinet's height and hand cut box and dovetail joints at the top and bottom of the piece.
hard carved curve, hand-cut dovetails

The result demonstrates the artist’s ability to hear needs and inspire interest through the construction of custom furniture.”

daniel f.
interior shelf located on sliding door holds wooden cutoffs of the species that comprise the entrway cabinet. Cutoffs are slender and represemble an unconventional bouquet.
unconventional bouquet
Chamfered fishtail joints, traditional joinery. Close-up of brackets.
traditional joinery, up close
Shelving structure hung on white wall. Shelving made from white oak using traditional Japanese joinery. Panned out image.
white oak elegance
cherry doors, white walnut panel
Eye level view of coatrack hanging on a wall. Subtle angles highlighted by natural light filtering into the space.
coat rack, “down the line”
Right end of a coat rack. A Keystone shapened accent and beveled side are center of image.
keystone accent
Left end of a coat rack. Details of a keystone accent that joins the top and side of the coat rack are displayed.
beveled, hand-shaped edges
Long walnut side showing pinboard and inside of opposite white oak side of custom frame with cherry inlays. Black stained bottom interior. Frame stands alone on top of walnut slab. Left side vantage.
elevated framing, multi-perspective
Hand cut dovetails on White oak. Hand Sculpted curve of frame like a wave from right to left. Black stained interior top and bottom.
frame internals
frame dovetail details. overhead view.
dovetails and curvature display
custom picnic box with maple finger joints.
“on a picnic”, portable case
video description: an heirloom picnic box is featured by two hands that open the various compartments. The interiors shown are a drawer that contains a knife, condiment holder, cutting board, as well as a latched top with two internal storage spaces.
opened lid, exposing the top two compartment custom box.
opened, heirloom box
Bespoke walnut sapwood knife holder with knife snuggly inside it.
knife holder, walnut sapwood

…exceeded our expectations but also set a new standard for what we consider exceptional.”

jim d.
Piano bench, with lid closed, against a white brick wall in a neighborhood setting. Walnut, elm, ash, and cherry wood species.
personalized piano seating
Piano bench, with lid open, against a white brick wall in a neighborhood setting. Walnut, elm, ash, and cherry wood species.
opened ‘roof’, piano bench

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