A day at the studio with the Cozyleigh family

Hi friends, Maisy here.

In September, we finally got the three of us into a YouTube video together again. We'd been in the studio for most of the year, and I wanted to sit down with bagels and coffee, introduce everyone properly and talk about how it felt to have a space of our own.

If you're new here, I'm the designer behind Cozyleigh. Tristan is my partner and our engineer and maker, and Ash is my younger sister and our artist. You might also know her drawings as MySweetChubs. We each have our own work, but a lot of our days are spent making and finishing things together.

Working with my family was the part I wanted from the beginning. I didn't know sharing my desk on YouTube would lead to this, but it gave us a way to build something together. Sitting down to talk about it felt like a good chance to notice how far we'd come.

Finally adding some jade green

Earlier that day, Tristan and I worked on a kitchen project I'd wanted to do since we moved in. There's a lot of creamy beige and warm oak in the studio, and I'd been looking for a backsplash with a jade green feel. I never quite found the right tile, so we tried peel-and-stick vinyl instead.

I was literally in love with how it turned out. The tiles aren't all the same color, which gives them a softer, more varied look. It didn't even look like a sticker to me. After thinking about that corner for so long, it was nice to finally see the green there.

Our first Cafe Corner Chat

We spent way too long naming a conversation that technically happens at a bar, not a corner. Cozyleigh Cafe Corner Chats won anyway. We started with a question we'd all had time to think about: how does it feel to finally have our own studio?

Tristan's answer started with sunlight and ventilation, two things the basement didn't have. He also liked having somewhere to go to work and being able to come home afterward, even if switching off isn't always easy. There was finally room to try ideas without feeling like we lived in a lab.

For Ash, the space was a way to see what we'd accomplished. It had started as a concrete box, and now the tools, supplies and packaging all had somewhere to go. I liked hearing that, because we spend so much time looking at the next thing we need to do that we don't always notice what's already changed.

For me, it was seeing the place I'd imagined become somewhere we actually spent our days. I wanted the kitchen, desks, workshop and even the box storage to feel like they belonged together. I also talked about how lovely it would be to host small workshops here someday, perhaps something with Ash's art or Tristan's electronics. That was still an idea, but it was exciting to have a space where we could imagine it.

This video gave us a reason to pause and talk about the studio instead of just working in it. There was still plenty on the list, of course, but we wanted to remember this part too. Thank you for watching us figure it out, and for being interested in the people behind what we make.

Maisy

From our family, to yours.