Bespoke cabins, treehouses and retreats, 
designed and built by hand.

We build cabins, treehouses and retreats for people who want something worth keeping.

Every project starts with the land. A hillside, a tree canopy, a corner of an estate that's never quite been used. We don't work from templates or catalogues. Each build is designed from scratch around the site and the people who'll use it.

No two are the same, because they're not supposed to be.

The kind of places where families come back year after year. Where guests put their phone away without thinking about it. Where the building feels like it grew there.

We care about how things are put together. The joints, the finishes, the way a door sits in its frame. The details most people won't consciously notice, but everyone feels.

One of our cabins was featured by the Financial Times in their Top 20 Coolest Cabins in the World. We're proud of that. But the projects we think about most are the ones where a client rings up months later, still using the place every weekend.

We work with private landowners, hospitality businesses, estates and holiday lets. If you've got a piece of land and something in mind, that's usually enough to start.

With Bear Hands is Oli Lee — designer, maker and builder.

Oli works on every project himself, from first sketch to final fix. No subcontractors, no production line. Just a close working relationship with the site, the materials and the client.

It's a slower, more hands-on way of working. But it's the reason no two builds look the same, and the reason people keep coming back.