The Zen Studio Collection
Three ranges for size and scope, four styles for character. Every Zen studio is designed to order, insulated for year-round use and finished with care.
How the collection works
The range sets the size and scope of your project. The style sets its architectural character. Any style can be built in any range.
Step one · Range
Zen One, Zen Flow or Zen Sanctuary
How big, how complete, and how much of the garden it brings in.
Step two · Style
Zazen, Shikantaza, Kōan or Kinhin
How it looks and feels: focused, open, expressive or flowing.
Compact Garden Studios
A beautifully finished room of your own, sized for smaller gardens. Designed for offices, compact gyms, treatment spaces and quiet retreats.
Provisional guide, inc. VAT
£20,000–£27,000
Footprint
Roughly 7 to 12 m²
Signature Garden Studios
Our most versatile studios. Generous, well-insulated spaces for working, training, entertaining or creating, with room to divide the plan.
Provisional guide, inc. VAT
£30,000–£42,000
Footprint
Roughly 13 to 24 m²
Premium Outdoor Living
Design-led retreats that bring the studio and garden together, with options such as a sauna room, decking, an outdoor shower and bespoke features.
Provisional guide, inc. VAT
£45,000–£75,000+
Footprint
From roughly 24 m², plus outdoor space
Provisional indicative guide prices, including VAT. Final pricing depends on specification, site access, foundations and installation requirements, and is confirmed in a written quotation after a site survey.
Architectural styles
Our original Zen designs, refined into four clear architectural characters. Each can be built at any size.
Seated meditation
Quiet and contained. A single glazed entrance with solid walls for shelving and screens, softened by one warm oak feature panel. Our most private style, made for concentration.
Best for
Offices, edit suites, treatment rooms
Just sitting
The whole front opens to the garden. Wide glazing frames the view and fills the room with daylight, making it the natural choice for lounges and calm gyms.
Best for
Lounges, yoga, light-filled offices
A question without an easy answer
Bold contrast and a strong frame. Dark cladding wraps oak-lined alcoves, with room for statement pieces such as hanging seats or a built-in bar.
Best for
Snugs, bars, creative studios
Walking meditation
Made for moving between inside and out. A wraparound canopy, corner glazing and a covered threshold turn studio and terrace into one space.
Best for
Entertaining, gyms, wellness retreats
Exterior finishes
Every range and style is designed around contemporary timber finishes. For selected designs, architectural render is available as a bespoke upgrade for a seamless, substantial look that matches a rendered home.
Standard
Dark vertical boarding, natural or thermally modified timber and slatted feature panels. Warm, textural and true to the craft behind Zen.
Bespoke upgrade
A crisp silicone render over an insulated timber frame, drawing on our experience building rendered timber-frame extensions. It gives the studio the calm, permanent presence of the house it sits beside.
Available on selected designs and quoted after consultation. Specification and any approvals are confirmed for each project.
| Feature | Zen OneCompact Garden Studios | Zen FlowSignature Garden Studios | Zen SanctuaryPremium Outdoor Living |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provisional guide price | £20,000–£27,000 | £30,000–£42,000 | £45,000–£75,000+ |
| Typical footprint | Roughly 7 to 12 m² | Roughly 13 to 24 m² | From roughly 24 m², plus outdoor space |
| Ideal for | Garden office, Treatment room, Reading retreat, Compact gym | Office with meeting space, Home gym, Studio and storage, Family room | Wellness retreat, Sauna and recovery, Entertaining space, Studio and terrace |
| Styles available | Zazen, Shikantaza, Kōan, Kinhin | Zazen, Shikantaza, Kōan, Kinhin | Zazen, Shikantaza, Kōan, Kinhin |
Provisional indicative guide prices, including VAT. Final pricing depends on specification, site access, foundations and installation requirements, and is confirmed in a written quotation after a site survey.
Explore the collection
Filter by how you'll use it, size, budget, range or style. Every studio can be adapted, so treat these as starting points.
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A focused single-desk studio that fits neatly into a smaller garden.
Provisional guide from
£20,000
A light-filled office or treatment room that looks straight into the garden.
Provisional guide from
£23,500
A characterful retreat for reading, treatments or a snug evening bar.
Provisional guide from
£24,000
Our signature open studio. Calm, bright and easy to live with all year.
Provisional guide from
£30,000
A training space with doors that fold back onto the deck for fresh air.
Provisional guide from
£34,000
A maker's studio with a wide opening, good light and wall space to work.
Provisional guide from
£35,000
Corner glazing and a covered terrace make this the sociable one.
Provisional guide from
£37,000
A relaxation room with an integrated sauna option, outdoor shower and decking.
Provisional guide from
£45,000
A generous garden pavilion with room to divide into two spaces.
Provisional guide from
£52,000
A one-off studio with hand-carved timber features, designed with you.
Pricing
Price on application
Provisional indicative guide prices, including VAT. Final pricing depends on specification, site access, foundations and installation requirements, and is confirmed in a written quotation after a site survey. Images are concept visuals.
Provisional budget guide
Choose a footprint, a style and any extras. You'll see a provisional guide range, never a fixed quotation, and a plan drawn to scale. Add it to your enquiry and we'll take it from there.
Provisional guide · Not a quotation
Your indicative budget range
£30,000 to £34,000
Including VAT · standard specification
5.0 × 3.0 m (15.0 m²), Shikantaza style. Provisional guide £30,000 to £34,000 inc. VAT. Not a quotation.
Drawn to scale on a 1 m grid, beside a standard 2.4 × 4.8 m parking bay.
This is a provisional indicative guide, not a quotation, offer or fixed price. Final pricing depends on your chosen specification, site access, foundations, groundworks, electrical supply, installation requirements and any approvals needed. We only confirm a price in a written quotation after a site survey.
Specification & options
Every studio is specified for its site and its use. These are the options we design with; your exact specification is confirmed in writing in your proposal.
At your site assessment we look at access, levels, ground conditions, trees and drainage, the route for the electrical supply, distances to boundaries and any planning or building regulations requirements. Each of these can affect design, programme and price, and we explain how in your proposal.
Often not, but it depends on your property and the design. In England, many garden rooms can be built under permitted development rights for outbuildings, without a planning application, as long as they meet a set of conditions. The main ones are:
Different rules apply to listed buildings, flats and maisonettes, and to homes in national parks (including Dartmoor and Exmoor), National Landscapes (formerly AONBs), conservation areas and World Heritage Sites. Some homes also have permitted development rights removed by an earlier planning condition or an Article 4 direction.
We check this at your site assessment. If you'd like formal certainty, you can apply to your council for a Lawful Development Certificate, or make a planning application where one is needed. We can help you with either. This is general guidance, not legal advice.
Many don't, but some do. As a general guide for detached outbuildings in England with no sleeping accommodation:
Separately, electrical work must always meet the building regulations, and new circuits are normally notifiable, so the electrics are installed and certified by a qualified, registered electrician. Adding a shower room, WC or sleeping space can also bring a project into building control. We confirm what applies to your design before you commit.
Yes, on selected designs. Alongside our timber finishes, we offer architectural render as a bespoke upgrade: a crisp, seamless finish over an insulated timber frame, drawing on our experience building rendered timber-frame extensions. It suits homes that are themselves rendered, or anyone who wants the studio to feel as permanent as the house. It is quoted after consultation, and the specification, and whether any approvals are needed, is confirmed for each project.
It depends on the size of the studio, groundworks, access, the specification you choose and lead times for glazing and specialist items. Approvals, where needed, add time before work can start. We'll give you a realistic programme in your written proposal, so you know the timeline before you commit, and we'll keep you updated if anything changes.
The prices on this website are provisional indicative guide prices, including VAT. They are not quotations or fixed prices. Your final price depends on your chosen specification, site access, foundations, groundworks, electrical supply, installation requirements and any approvals needed. Some options, such as saunas, shower rooms and bespoke sculptural features, are quoted individually after consultation. After your site assessment we send a written, itemised quotation so you can see exactly what's included before you decide.
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Tell us what you'd love to create. We'll help you explore the possibilities.
We design and install across Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset, subject to site access and scheduling. Further afield? Ask us. Larger projects are considered case by case.