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What We Build

Oak and Frame crafts timeless timber structures — treehouses and garden buildings that elevate outdoor family life.

A place where childhood lives outside. Our treehouses are thoughtfully designed and beautifully built, creating safe, characterful spaces where imaginations run wild and family life naturally drifts outdoors.

The Acorn Collection

A wooden treehouse with a ramp, railing, and small windows, built on stilts in a backyard with green grass and surrounding trees.

Our preferred approach is a timber-framed platform: robust, solid underfoot and attractive. Frames are crafted using pegged mortice and tenon joinery for strength, character and longevity.

Safety is built into every detail, with secure balustrades, sensible access and durable outdoor finishes — with optional extras like bridges, slides, climbing walls, hatches, ladders and fitted birch ply kitchens to name but a few.

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Work With Us
A wooden treehouse with a ramp and slide, built on stilts, surrounded by young trees and green grass on a sunny day.

Each one is hand built with a choice of Oak or Douglas Fir, joinery made designed to weather well —  Helping your Child’s development from early climbs to long afternoons of play, quiet hideaways, and memories that last.

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Every treehouse is designed around your garden and your family. We start with a site visit to understand the trees, levels and access, then guide you through layout and features that suit your children’s ages. Wherever possible, we pre-build in the workshop to keep time on site to a minimum — cleaner, quicker and far less disruptive.

We work across Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, typically within an hour of Bury St Edmunds

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The Canopy Collection

A newly built wooden patio with a pergola in a garden, under a clear blue sky with the sun shining.

Elegant timber pergolas, gazebos and pavilions — designed to frame your garden and extend life outdoors. Clean lines, solid structure, and craftsmanship that weathers beautifully through the seasons.

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A wooden gazebo with a shingled roof in a backyard, enclosed by a wooden fence and surrounded by a patio with concrete tiles and a small patch of green grass under a partly cloudy sky.

What We Build

Pergolas — open, airy structures for light shade and defined seating/dining zones

Gazebos — elegant freestanding spaces for gathering and relaxing

Timber pavilions — more substantial builds, including roofed options for better shelter

Bespoke details — screening, integrated seating, planters, storage and step-ups where useful

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Our Approach

Every canopy structure is designed around how you use the space — sun path, privacy, views, and how you move between house and garden. We’ll guide proportions, post positions and rooflines so the structure feels balanced and “meant to be there,” rather than dropped in.

Wherever possible we pre-build key elements in the workshop, keeping time on site clean, efficient and minimally disruptive.

Materials, Finish & Longevity

We focus on proper structure, tidy detailing and outdoor durability — the things that make a canopy feel solid today and still look right years from now. We’ll advise on post bases, fixings, and weathering details so the build stays true, safe and low-fuss.

Finishes can be tailored from natural timber tones through to painted options, depending on the look you’re after.

We work across Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, typically within an hour of Bury St Edmunds

Backyard with a pond, water lilies, a wooden structure for an outdoor shower, and a gravel area with a green water filter.
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Backyard patio with a wooden deck, black outdoor furniture, two large potted topiary trees, a pathway with patterned tiles, small plants, and a wooden privacy fence with bushes in the background.

Cabin Collection

Beautifully built garden cabins — the “posh shed” done properly.

The Cabin Collection is our take on the classic garden building: timeless proportions, quality materials, and detailing that makes it feel like part of the garden, not an afterthought. Built for everyday life — storing bikes and tools, housing a workshop, creating a calm garden retreat, or simply keeping the outdoor chaos tidy — with joinery, cladding, and finishes chosen to age well.

These aren’t flat-pack sheds. They’re robust, well-ventilated, thoughtfully designed cabins that look right from day one — and still look right in years to come.

A small white wooden garden shed with a red shingled roof and multiple windows, situated on a grassy area near a vineyard or garden.

Ideal Uses

  • Premium storage (bikes, garden kit, kids’ outdoor gear)

  • Workshop / maker space

  • Garden reading nook or calm retreat

  • Home gym or hobby cabin (non-habitable use)

  • Pool / hot-tub changing cabin and towel store

  • Outdoor bar / entertaining store (seasonal use)

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Backyard scene with a light blue wooden shed, log storage with chopped wood, potted plants, and outdoor toys on a wet stone patio after rain.

What makes a Cabin Collection build different

  • Built to last, not just to stand up – solid frames, sensible detailing, and weather-ready construction.

  • Materials with character – cladding, trims, and hardware chosen for durability and a premium feel.

  • Design that fits your garden – size, doors, windows, roof form and finish tailored to your space.

  • Practical from the start – smart storage, proper access, dry interiors, and options for light and power.

  • A natural, “belongs here” look – clean lines, balanced proportions, and an honest timber aesthetic.

Interior view of a room with a wooden, vaulted ceiling and three green-framed windows facing a brick wall outside.
A backyard scene showing a partially built wooden gazebo structure with metal scaffolding inside, a white metal garden bench on the grass, a brick wall, and a wooden fence, with trees and a clear blue sky in the background.

A Note on Planning

Many garden buildings fall under permitted development, but every site is different. We’ll help you sanity-check the basics early on so there are no surprises.

If you’re after a cabin that feels considered — not just convenient — let’s talk. Share a rough size, a couple of reference photos, and what you want it used for, and we’ll shape a design that suits your garden and your life.

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A wooden gazebo with a shingled roof in a backyard, surrounded by a wooden fence, with a small pool and a privacy screen in the background.

‘We worked with Mike to completely transform our front and rear gardens. From an initial discussion Mike drew up a 3D picture for us to visualise the design. The addition of custom built wooden structures including a pergola, gazebo and planters have really brought the garden life. Based on the all the comments we have had about how great it looks I think we can safely say that we achieved what set out to do. We’d have no hesitation in recommending Mike to others looking to revamp their garden.’

Steve & Sally, Saffron Walden