HĀM Studio | Custom Pet Furniture, Made to Measure

HĀM Studio — Bespoke Pet Architecture & Custom Pet Furniture for the Home

HĀM Studio · Bespoke Pet Architecture
01 / PremiseOne home.The first architecture is the one we all share.
02 / CoexistenceNo life here is separate.Human routines and animal instincts occupy the same plan.
03 / SystemA home is a shared system.Every sightline, habit, material, and resting place has a role.
04 / InvitationBuild the room around all who live there.Bespoke pet architecture, integrated into the home itself.
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01—The studio

Between ready‑made and a renovation.

One made-to-measure piece for the room you share with your pet: their bed, their bowls and your things, held together in furniture that belongs to the room.
A woman reading on a sofa while a Golden Retriever rests in a bay built into the living-room joinery

Fitted or freestanding, designed around how your household actually uses the space — without turning the home into a building project.

  • Made to measureFor your room and your pet
  • Delivered to your doorIncluded in every quote
  • Safe to live withLow-emission finishes and adhesives
  • See it before it shipsA video of your finished piece

02—By room

What could work in your room?

Four rooms, four ways one piece can earn its place. Hover to look closer.
  • A woman settling a Pug into a resting bay built into living-room storage

    Living room

    A place to rest. Room to put things away.

    Their bed and blankets, held in the same piece as your everyday storage.

  • A woman greeting a Pug beside sage-green entry joinery with hooks, leads and a low resting bay

    Entry

    Everything for a walk, by the door.

    Leads, towels and water where you reach for them, with room to come and go.

  • A woman setting down a bowl at a feeding station built into dining-room cabinetry while a Border Collie waits

    Kitchen & dining

    A place for bowls, food and everything around them.

    Feeding built into the room: easy to reach, easy to clean.

  • A man working on a built-in bench while a Dachshund sleeps in the niche beside him

    Work & rest

    Close enough to share the day.

    A seat for you, a resting place beside it, and storage within reach.

03—Selected works

The collection

Design studies to start from. Every one is redrawn for your room.
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04—How it works

What you get, and when you pay.

From a photo of your room to a finished piece at home. You see each stage before you pay for the next.

01 / 07Free · Concept

A client photographing their living room on a phone: a TV wall, a small bookcase, a pet crate and shoes by the garden door

Your room, just as it is today.

A photo or two from your phone and a few words about what isn’t working. No measuring, no tidying: we draw from what you send.

You send
A photo or two of your room
You pay
Nothing

02 / 07Free · Concept

Studio drawing of a full wall of cabinetry with shelving, drawers, a pet bed with feeding and water, a television cabinet and an entry shoe cabinet

A concept, drawn for your room.

An illustrated idea showing where rest, feeding, storage and media could sit, drawn around your room and your pet. Yours to keep.

Arrives
Within three business days, by email
You pay
Nothing, and no obligation

03 / 07USD 70 · Design Study

Rendering of the same wall with blue-edged cabinetry, a bookcase, drawers, an open pet bay with feeding bowls, a media unit and a curved end cabinet

See it in your room, in real materials.

If you’d like to go further, the Design Study shows the piece in your room, with boards, finishes and hardware chosen and named.

Design Study
USD 70 credited in full when you go ahead
Takes
About 1 – 2 weeks, with step 04

04 / 07USD 70 · Design Study

Exploded cabinet drawings beside an itemised quotation, with board samples and a ruler

Drawings and a fixed, itemised price.

Plans and elevations with dimensions, and a firm quote for the agreed scope. You decide with everything in front of you.

Part of
Design Study · USD 70
If you stop here
The drawings and quote are still yours

05 / 0750% · Deposit

Makers assembling the blue and yellow cabinetry in the workshop, fitting the pet bay and drawers

Made from your approved drawings.

Production starts only once you’ve signed off the drawings and the quote. Your piece is built and checked against them.

You pay
50% deposit, to begin production
Takes
Usually 8 – 10 weeks from approval to your door

06 / 0750% · Balance

A maker filming the finished wall of cabinetry in the workshop for the client

You see it finished before it ships.

We send a video of your finished piece. Once you’re happy and the balance is paid, it’s wrapped, crated and shipped to you.

You pay
The other 50%, after the video
Delivery
To your door

07 / 0750% · Balance

The finished cabinetry installed in the client’s living room, with a bookcase, drawers, an open pet bay and a media unit under the TV

In your room, part of daily life.

Delivered to your door, ready for daily life with your pet. Carry-in or installation can be added, quoted before you commit.

Warranty
10 years on HĀM-managed fabrication
You pay
Nothing more

05—What it costs

From USD 1,500.

Most shared walls are USD 2,800 – 4,500. Every piece is quoted for your room, with a fixed, itemised price before anything is made.
  • An oak console with two drawers, an open feeding shelf with bowls behind a perforated side panel, and a cushioned resting bay

    Compact companion piece

    USD 1,500 – 2,400

    One freestanding unit up to about 1.2 m wide: a resting place with drawers or a cabinet beside it.

  • A pink and olive living-room wall with tall storage, open shelving, low cupboards and a cushioned resting bay

    Shared wall

    USD 2,800 – 4,500

    A 2.5 – 3.5 m run bringing rest, feeding and household storage together, often with a desk or media zone.

  • A long blue, yellow and white media wall with display shelving, drawers, speaker cabinets and an open resting bay

    Full-height wall system

    From USD 5,600

    Floor-to-ceiling joinery across a wall, with several routines resolved in one composition.

These are examples, not quotes. Prices in AUD, including GST and delivery to your door in Australia. Shown here in USD as a guide. Your own price comes as a fixed, itemised quote with your Design Study.

06—Client voices

Every commission begins with one room and a few photos.

Oak side table beside a sofa with a slatted, open resting alcove and cushioned baseRepresentative piece

An honest first review

I half-expected the free review to be a sales pitch. Instead we got an honest assessment—and a suggestion that a cheaper standard piece was fine for our situation. When we did commission a piece a year later, the trust was already there.
Rachel Thompson

Built for shared life. Backed for 10 years.

HĀM-managed or expressly approved fabrication carries a 10-year warranty against manufacturing and structural defects under normal domestic use.

Read the warranty

07—Journal

Notes from the studio

Research and material thinking for rooms shared with pets.
SPATIAL DESIGNJUL 2026

A Professional Guide to Specifying Pet Spaces in Residential Interiors

How design teams can specify companion-animal space across brief, drawings, materials, maintenance, …

Read the entry
CASE STUDYMAY 2026

Why Most Pet Furniture Fails Beautiful Homes

A critique of the catalogue object, and a framework for designing companion space into the room rath…

Read the entry
A Shetland Sheepdog asleep in a burgundy built-in retreat in a warm living room

08 — Commission

You don’t need a plan. Just a photo.

One photo of the space and a sentence about what isn’t working. We take it from there: no measurements, and nothing to commit to.

Start my free conceptFree, and yours to keep · Reply within three business days