Cana Cabins

At CanaCabins our team are driven by a passion for beauty, affordability, and sustainability.

For over twenty years CanaCabins have been imagining, designing and constructing the finest exterior garden buildings utilising specialist exterior bespoke joinery, and the expertise gathered from a long history of timber building construction from Canada.

Unique, exterior bespoke buildings, to suit your needs

designs suited to every need

Whether you're looking for an artist studio, home office, a gym, or just a space to sit quietly away from the hustle and bustle of the world, CanaCabins can assure you of the finest craftsmanship and quality of service, leaving you with a new space in which to grow.

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Our Work

Our Projects

At CanaCabins we take our role as stewards of the environment seriously. Working in natural materials such as cedar wood is a privilege and we are acutely aware of our duty to the environment in terms of minimising all waste, recycling where we can, reusing materials and making sure that we are ethical in all our sustainability practises. All our timber is ethically sourced from FSC approved suppliers.

Rodwell Road

The customer desired a refurbishment of their front garden, including a new Victorian Quarry tiled path with a Tenby pattern. Walls were rendered with attached bespoke railings. Lean extended to optimise using cedar cladding. Walls lined with bespoke cedar horizontal screening.

Silvester Road

An enthusiastic young couple desired a cost-effective garden gym to meet their exercise needs. This bespoke outbuilding also features a separate storage room, primarily used to store their bicycles. Cladded with pressure-treated pine tongue and grove with a separate bespoke door for storage room.

Crystal Palace Road

Young couple seeking a garden exercise room. The building's exterior is clad with Larch and features front-opening patio doors and front-opening casement windows. 35a Maxted Road We were engaged to erect a bespoke garden study/office using vertical cedar cladding to provide additional space, thereby increasing their usable area.

Dunstans Road

A young expecting couple hired us to build a garden retreat at the far end of their shared garden, to be used as both an office and a sturdy storage space.

Friern Road

Young family with 3 football enthusiastic sons. We laid a football grade artificial pitch and at the far end a gym room with separate storage facility on right side. This unique structure includes sliding doors with a third fixed framed window to optimise light. This was our first outbuilding to be cladded with Douglas Fir.

Barry Road

Customer is a long-standing client who has engaged us to carry numerous projects. Having had new french doors installed, we were engaged to build a combined landing and steps leading to ground. The deck comprise of storage compartment accessible with a hinged hatch.

What Our Customers Say

Highly recommend Patrick, Phillip and Casper from SE22-based CanaCabins who recently built a combined garden office and storage unit. From the first meeting, they were wonderful at guiding and advising on the bespoke building I wanted. They were also super agreeable towards any particular requests I had. Having spoken to numerous businesses and obtained other quotes, CanaCabins were very competitive, and happy to professionally advise on possible ways to reduce fees e.g. alternative materials, potential other solutions etc.

Josh Carter

I would like to recommend Canacabins who have just done a small job for me, which blossomed into a fairly large job: They extended our side shed; installed beautiful fencing along garden wall; built and installed secure garden gate; installed back door and new french door and project managed the whole thing which included recommending a great tiler and getting a new iron gate installed. They also turned their hand to replacing rotten joists and fitted new wood floor to dining room, And over 10 years ago they paved our patio which has really stood the test of time. But I’m not sure if they still do that type of work. Very experienced, great eye for details, efficient snagging, great to work with.

Justine Brennan

Highly recommend canacabins. They built a brilliant garden office for us as well as redoing our front garden to accommodate a bike shed.   It was a pleasure working with Philip and Patrick throughout the process, they went above and beyond in supporting us when we realised that planning permission was required for our situation which was hugely appreciated. The work was completed to a very high quality with brilliant attention to detail and an infectious enthusiasm for what they build.   We absolutely love the final result and get a lot of use out of our garden office- we didn’t have much space to play with but we’ve ended up with an additional room in our home which we’re really pleased with. thanks Canacabins!

Beth Anderson

I have used Philip and Patrick several times to do garden work for us- including digging up concrete paving to make way for Astro turf, putting up new fencing, trellis and garden lights. We have personally recommended them to many friends over the years but can do so here too gladly.

Marissa Watts

Just wanted to post a quick review on a local company in East Dulwich, Canacabins. Phillip, Patrick & the team recently built a garden room for me to use as a studio and I couldn't be more pleased with the results. It's transformed my working space and the whole process was easy. Phillip is thorough and detailed in his communication and Patrick is professional and friendly - just what you need when undertaking a project which can at first be a little daunting. Find out more here, you won't be disappointed;

Tom Cunningham

Patrick and Casper did a great job transforming our back garden from a boring square of rotten decking to a beautifully paved area that gives us room to plant around the edges while still leaving us a big enough space for a large table and chairs in the middle. They were great to deal with and were happy to work with our initial design and subsequent changes. Their attention to detail and care for what they do was great to see and we're looking forward to getting it planted up and finished ready for next years 'Mediterranean' summer. Thanks guys for all your hard work and for helping the job run so smoothly with such good humour.

Fraser Dickson

As they'd already done a great job with our garden and bespoke cupboards/shelves for the sitting room, we asked Phillip and Patrick to refurbish our loft shower room. Once again they, and the lovely Kasper, were a delight to work with. They waterproofed and re-tiled the floor, replaced some wall tiles and fitted a new shower enclosure for us. We're very pleased - the shower room looks like new new and no longer leaks. Highly recommend!

Nicole Davies

Phillip, Patrick and Kasper worked on the complete remodelling of our garden and built a lean-to shed. They came up with great ideas, performed quality work and were always friendly and flexible. We have had lots of compliments regarding our garden (and beautiful lean to) from people coming over!

Emmanuelle Phillips

Chiming in to recommend the Canacabins team, who did a beautiful job completely rebuilding a well-loved (but falling down) shed into a new garden office. While they were at it, they also constructed a new pond surround, deck, railing, and patched up our decrepit fence, all to a high standard. A friendly team and very happy with the end result!

Kaye & Matt Blegvad

Excellent work for us from Canacabins. Transformed our front garden by building wall, making beds, paving and did a sensational job of our entrance tiling. Really happy to accommodate our ideas and changes. Really helpful advice, attention to detail and feedback. Worked well with other suppliers such as the metal work and garden centre. Happy to recommend.

Tom Mylne

We looked at a few contractors when considering our garden room and are really pleased we went with Canacabins - a great local company with many years of experience in bespoke garden rooms. Phillip and Pat maintained constant communication throughout the project from design to build and complet.

Frances Hawkins

Cana Cabins installed a brilliant deck which has lasted well and looks great, a year later they installed a softwood side deck and storage unit which looks fantastic and has really revolutionised the space. They're a wonderful team and produce great work.

David Alexander

Let’s build something beautiful together.

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