Welcome to Catwood
do good by wood.
Welcome to Catwood
do good by wood.
We're happy you're here!
From banging out boards to blogging about random (and sometimes cool) happenings in Omaha, NE, and beyond, we're hoping Catwood.co has something that will strike your fancy.
The Catwood Store
All of our inventory (boards, furniture, misc. wood things) is here. Look for link for custom boards, too!
Hassana, The Blog
Essentially a repository for our photos and musings that isn't Facebook. We promise we won't post pics of brunch.
Get in Touch!
Interested in a custom board, collaborating, or just hanging out? Drop us a line!
The Vision
...as in, what's with all the wood?
The Vision
...as in, what's with all the wood?
Catwood is an attempt by Hassan and Ana Lopez Shalla to be relevant millennials.
What started as an excuse to acquire an excessive amount of power tools resulted in a hobby that fuses our favorite things: art, design, friends, and the great outdoors. So now, by night, you can find us in our basement workshop, designing, prototyping, and building really pretty things out of really cool wood. By day, you can find us complaining about the MBTA.
The Catwood mascot is a racoon because—just like our raw product—we think that, with a little tender loving care and polish, a racoon could be as lovable as any cat.
We have so enjoyed building and spreading the wacky joy that is Catwood, we want to ensure its goodness is spread as far and wide as possible. Therefore, we commit to donating 25 percent of our profits to an organization that really knows how to use wood to build cool things: Habitat for Humanity.
Catwood: do good by wood.
Products
we have plenty of cutting boards in stock, but our true passion is custom design.
Products
we have plenty of cutting boards in stock, but our true passion is custom design.
What She Order?
Catwood got its start in the (cutting)board game and has since evolved into coffee tables, desks, and even carts with wheels. Check out what we currently have in stock OR...if you would like an item custom designed and built to your specifications, reach out to us!
Meet the Staff
...a.k.a. the tireless servants of these furry dudes.
Meet the Staff
...a.k.a. the tireless servants of these furry dudes.
Hassan and Ana visit (and make friends in) the home of the fallen American walnut trees that kicked this whole thing off: Hassan's uncle's farm in Quakertown, PA.
Hassan & Ana
Lopez Shalla
As co-founders of Catwood, Hassan and Ana seamlessly share the responsibilities associated with keeping a world-class operation such as this one afloat (Hassan = Chief Technology Officer, Head of R&D, Chief Financial Officer, and Shop Boy while Ana = Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Communications, Chief Compliance Officer, and Social Media Intern). Sure, these look like fancy titles and you might expect the two are scooting around from artisanal wood conference to artisanal wood conference via private jet. But, rest assured, despite the prestige and good fortune that has befallen them, the two remain humble and rely on their RAV-4 for all out-of-state travel.