Cabins, homes, interiors & wellness.

Built for the wild, the remote, the considered.

Architect-designed cabin collections, wellness retreats, hospitality venues and private residences, each one shaped by the landscape, climate and character of where it stands. A collective of architects, interior designers and makers across the UK and the US, we look at architecture, interiors and land together, from concept to completion. The only question is where.

We design for hotels, estates and private clients, and build through partner factories in the UK, the Nordics and Baltics, wider Europe and North America.

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Hospitality

Rooms in the kitchen garden.

Seven garden suites for a three-Michelin-star restaurant with rooms in Lancashire. Built off site and set among the trees of the kitchen garden, each one reached on foot along its own path, and open since the summer of 2024.

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A guest walking towards a Koto garden suite among the trees

A Koto garden suite seen through the leaves at Moor Hall

Window seat inside a Koto garden suite at Moor Hall, interiors by Koto Living

Estates

One design, built many times.

Twenty cabins and a floating sauna on a thousand acres of rewilding in Norfolk. Each cabin is placed for its own view of the water, and they have been letting since 2021.

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A Koto cabin in autumn woodland beside the lake at Fritton Lake, Norfolk

A Koto cabin at Fritton Lake with its sliding door open to the trees

Living space inside a Koto cabin at Fritton Lake

Haku

Arrives finished. Leaves no trace.

Our ready-made suite for two. Designed once, built to order in the factory, furnished by Koto Living and delivered in weeks with almost no groundworks. Three are already taking guests at Denton Reserve.

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A Haku suite in the woods at Denton Reserve, delivered complete

Reading by the window inside a Haku suite at Denton Reserve

Furnishing detail inside a Haku suite, by Koto Living

Wellness

A sauna that floats.

Saunas, spa pavilions and treatment rooms for hotels, estates and private gardens, designed as a ritual rather than an add-on and built to perform. This one floats on a lake in Norfolk.

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Koto floating sauna on a lake in Norfolk, reached by a timber jetty

Inside a Koto sauna, steam rising from the stones

Koto wellness cabins beside a Highland loch in winter

Homes

Rooted in land and sea.

A few private houses a year, built with the same care we give a hotel. This one is a four-bedroom family home on the North Uist coast, built off site and shaped by Atlantic weather: burnt larch outside, calm timber rooms inside, the sea in every window.

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Uist House, a Koto family home on North Uist, clad in burnt larch

The kitchen at Uist House, dark joinery and exposed timber

The bathroom at Uist House with a view over the Hebridean landscape

“They landed it on time, it cost what it was going to cost, and the quality is beautiful. I’ve never really seen a project where you can get all three.”

Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs

Interiors

Finished by the same hands.

Koto Living is our interiors, furniture and living studio. Here the team kept to limewash, oak and birch, so the entrance is calm and the rooms beyond read as one quiet material.

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A Koto Living hallway with an oak bench and a view through to a timber-lined kitchen

Timber and limewash in the living space at Cornwall Barn

Bathroom at Cornwall Barn with limewashed walls

Friendship first. Then design.

The Koto team of architects and designers looking out over the North Devon coast

“Every Koto project starts with a conversation and a walk around the land. We are architects, interior designers and makers, and we look at the building, the interiors and the landscape together, from the first sketch to the day the door opens.”

Zoë, Johnathon and Theo

Founded in North Devon in 2017.

How we work

Koto designs. Partner factories build. Koto Living furnishes.

An architecture and design studio with a factory network rather than a catalogue, so the same cabin can be built in Cornwall, Norway or Texas to local codes and arrive finished.

How we work

A three-Michelin-star restaurant. A castle in Kent. A members’ club. A research station at the edge of the world. And the private clients who would rather we talked about the buildings than about them.

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