Home Devotions

Woodworker crafting a handmade wooden Catholic home altar for prayer in a workshop

We create handcrafted furnishings: wall shrines, home altars, reliquary niches, prayer kneelers, and devotional furniture designed to support prayer life at home.

Romanelli Design Studio - More Than Décor

The pieces we make are not ornamental accents or mass-produced religious décor. They are devotional tools, objects meant to be used regularly, quietly, and reverently.

Each design is informed by traditional Catholic architecture and proportion. Clean lines, restrained forms, and honest materials allow the object placed within - a crucifix, icon, relic, or prayer book to remain the focus. Nothing is added without purpose.

Handcrafted With Intention

Every piece from HomeDevotions is made one at a time in our Kentucky workshop using solid wood and traditional woodworking techniques. We do not use veneers or composites.

Wood is chosen, shaped, sanded, and finished by hand. Natural variation in grain and tone is not hidden, but embraced. These marks of material and craft are part of what make each piece unique and worthy of lasting use.

Our aim is to create furnishings that feel at home in quiet prayer corners, family chapels, and personal oratories, and that can be passed down rather than replaced.

Designed for the Domestic Church

HomeDevotions exists to serve prayer in everyday life:

  • Morning and evening family prayer
  • Preparation for the sacraments
  • Rosary and private devotion
  • Teaching children reverence through practice
  • Creating a stable, visible reminder of faith in the home

These furnishings are meant to help cultivate stillness, attention, and habit.

Made to Last

We believe sacred objects should be made with care, patience, and restraint. In a world of disposable goods, our work intentionally moves in the opposite direction.

Each piece is built to endure so that it may accompany prayer not just today, but for years to come.

Romanelli Design Studio

We are a small, independent industrial design workshop based in Kentucky, USA, creating handcrafted wooden devotional furnishings. Custom orders welcome.

LOCATION: 15025 Brown Road, Verona, Kentucky, USA

EMAIL: ric@romanellidesign.com

PHONE: 517-290-8539

HOURS: 9AM - 3PM, Mon to Fri

 

 

 

 

Ric Tombelli

Observing the Ordinary

Learning How Things Fail

I’ve always been attentive to how objects are used in the real world. Good design begins by paying attention to failure, not perfection. That instinct carries through everything I make: noticing where things break down, then building something better in response.

Rooted in Daily Life

Work, Faith, and Life

Home Devotions grew out of ordinary life, marriage, work, faith, and the desire to live more intentionally. What I make is shaped not just by tools and materials, but by shared values, daily rhythms and the quiet work of building a home together. These pieces are meant for real homes and families.

Form and Order

Proportion, Order, and Meaning

I’m drawn to the underlying order found everywhere in nature — proportions that feel right even before they’re understood. Many of my designs are guided by these principles: balance, restraint, and harmony. They don’t call attention to themselves. They create a framework for what truly matters.