Our story so far
From a desk to a studio
Cozyleigh grew slowly, one piece at a time: from a desk on YouTube, to a home full of desk mats, to a studio we built by hand. Here's how we got here.
2020
A warm desk
A warm, cozy desk in a cool, techy world, shared on YouTube for the first time.
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Oct 2020
A warm desk in a cool industry
Maisy, then a software engineer and designer, filmed her work-from-home desk in warm, cozy colors, a soft corner in a cool, techy world. Nearly two million people watched, and the cozy desk setup was born. On the side, she ran a small Etsy shop of the digital planners, wallpapers and app icons she designed.
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Dec 2020
The Clementine speaker
Our first piece made by all three of us. Maisy had the idea: a portable speaker shaped like Clementine, one of Ash's Chubby Fruits characters. Tristan engineered it, from the 3D-printed shell to the electronics inside, and Ash brought her character to life with paint. An idea, art and engineering, together for the first time.
Watch us build it on YouTube
2021
A new beginning
After losing our mom, Maisy left her job to start again. She made a promise to live with purpose and no regrets, built herself a warm place to heal, and began blending design and code into things we could make together.
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Apr 2021
A promise to herself
After the hardest months of her life, Maisy spent that spring healing and finding ways to live again. Spring had always been her favorite season, and this one felt like a new beginning. So she made a promise to herself on camera: to live with purpose and balance it with happiness, to take risks she never would have taken before, and to look back one day with no regrets.
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Spring 2021
Making life warm again
Two months after losing their mom, Maisy left software engineering to make YouTube her full-time work. She came back by building herself a cozy haven: a corner for tea and quiet, tulips on her desk to remind her to appreciate the little things, and a shelf of pieces we'd made by hand. It was her way of coping and making life feel warm again, and the start of a new path for her and her family.
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May 2021
Design & code with me
Maisy's dream was to blend her two loves, design and engineering, and make cool things with them. Code hadn't clicked for her at first. It did once she saw it could bring her designs to life and, in her words, leave a positive impact on at least one person's life. In her Design & Code With Me series she finally built maisyleigh.com, a site she'd been waiting two years to bring to life, from the first moodboard to the finished code.
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Aug 2021
Helping Ash share her art
Maisy had promised their mom that Ash would one day open her own art shop, and she made it her mission to help Ash share her art with the world. Together they built the MySweetChubs portfolio and shop site as a little world of its own, where you follow Ellie, the character Ash drew as herself, setting out on her journey as an artist. Ash's illustrations became the wallpapers on Maisy's desk and phone, so everyone watching met Ash's art too.
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Sept 2021
The cozy desk, settled
The 2021 desk tour: a maple standing desk, warm earth tones, plants and soft pastels. Maisy wanted a space she was really excited to sit down at every day, warm enough after dark to keep her inspired to create. A little Gantri globe lamp already glowed on the shelf, two years before we'd make a light with them. Almost half a million people came along.
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Nov 2021
Wistful Orchids
Our first idea of working together: a cozy pixel art video game. Ash dreamed up the world and drew every character, frame by frame and facing all four directions. Maisy was the main designer, and Tristan engineered and coded it with her. It was the first game any of us had made, and we were so excited to share it from the very first level.
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Dec 2021
Why cozy
People kept asking Maisy why she lives such a cozy life. Her answer: when life spins out of control, you put your energy into the things you can control. She'd started her channel to have one place where she could be free and as creative as she wanted, and making her space warm reminded her to appreciate the little things, and that small changes can add up to a brighter future.
Watch how she makes a space cozy on YouTube
2022
One room, three makers
Maisy started sharing the journey, not just the finished results, while a designer, an engineer and an artist shared one home office and slowly started making things together.
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Jan 2022
The journey, not just the result
After the hardest year of her life, Maisy made a new year's promise: to share more of herself, the messy middle and not just the finished results, and to try new things. Back in 2017 she'd filmed a whole trip to Japan and China and never posted it because the footage wasn't perfect, and she still wished she had. So she started showing up as she was, and the more she shared, the closer she felt to everyone watching.
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Feb 2022
Tristan's printer
Tristan, an engineer, had taken up 3D printing as a hobby. He tinkered with and calibrated his first printer until every print came out just right. His little workshop corner showed up on camera for the first time, and building things together became part of the story.
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Mar 2022
CozyChubs candles
Maisy and Ashleigh started CozyChubs, a little brand built around Ash's Fruit Chubs, the first characters she ever created and, in Maisy's words, "so Ashleigh". They designed and poured fruit-scented candles to match, our first try at making something to share with you, before Cozyleigh began.
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Mar 2022
A desk for real life
Most desk tours only show the finished desk. Maisy's 2022 tour started with a messy one, dirty cups and all, because a hard week shows up on your desk too. Then she cleared it, wiped it down and gave everything a home again. Over six hundred thousand people watched.
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Spring 2022
Cozy mornings, millions of views
Short cozy-gaming mornings at the desk, Animal Crossing and Zelda, were watched more than twenty million times. A whole new community found the cozy desk.
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May 2022
One room, three makers
A collaborative home office for a designer, an engineer and an artist working side by side. Maisy was the visionary, gathering everyone's ideas into things we could make together. Ash added color and personality with her art, and Tristan made the visions real. Three people in one room meant loud keyboards and no private calls, but it's where our ideas started turning into things.
Watch the tour on YouTube
2022 – 2024
Made at home
We moved from the digital space into the physical one. Cozyleigh started as a business in our home: a workshop in the basement, desk mats stacked across the family room, and three 3D printers that became eighteen.
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Sept 2022
Cozyleigh begins
We wanted to make things you could actually hold, so we moved from the digital space into the physical one, and Cozyleigh Studios began as a business in our home. It started with our first-ever product, the Pro Desk Mat, inspired by a Zen garden: a calm, blank slate, like raked sand, for the few things you choose to place on it. Two mats in one, natural linoleum on one side and soft wool on the other, made by hand in our basement workshop over three months, with mats stacked across the family room. Pre-orders opened September 19.
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Fall 2022
Designing Cozyleigh
While the first mats were being made, Maisy designed the brand itself, from moodboards to the logo and colors, and began 3D modelling the desk accessories that would come next.
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Dec 2022
Our first launch
The first desk mats left our home just before the holidays, after months of work. Every one was made by the three of us, from cutting the raw materials to finishing, with Dad helping to polish. Maisy packed them all by hand over three days, and we thought of them as a gift from our family to yours.
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Mar 2023
A studio at home
Our home office became the beginnings of a design studio: a designer, an artist and an engineer in one room, with pieces we'd designed ourselves on every desk for the first time.
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Spring 2023
The Zen Light, with Gantri
Our first light collection, made with Gantri: a lamp inspired by traditional Asian lanterns, reimagined through 3D printing. It was featured in Refinery29 and Architectural Digest.
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June 2023
The basement workshop
We finished the basement ourselves and filled it with new printers. This is where most of what you know was made.
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Aug 2023
The Zen MagSafe Charger Stand
Our first piece to sit on the mat, inspired by Zen gardens: a stone resting in raked sand. It took eight months to go from the first sketch to the stand on your desk, weighted, magnetic, 3D printed and finished by hand. The first batch was gone in a single night.
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Fall 2023
Colors for every season
The stand came back in seasonal colors, first a fall collection and then a winter one, and both sold out. Choosing a new palette each season has been part of Cozyleigh ever since.
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Oct 2023
Teaching at Adobe MAX
Maisy was invited to teach at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, sharing how she finds productivity and creativity.
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Nov 2023
Zen keycaps
It started with Maisy spray-painting her own keycaps to get the look she wanted. Osume asked to bring the set to everyone, and the Zen keycaps were born. The build video was watched over seven million times.
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Feb 2024
A zen desk
After a quiet stretch away from YouTube, Maisy came back with her 2024 desk: warm, earthy and zen, with our own maple shelves above it. In her words, "a clear space leads to a clear mind."
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June 2024
Buko comes home
We rescued a puppy. Buko has been part of the studio, and most of our videos, ever since.
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Dec 2024
A step back
Maisy had been trying to make videos, design products and run a family business all at once, and it started to take the fun out of everything. So she stepped back to focus on what she loves most, making things with her hands. That same month, we walked into an empty grey room that became our studio.
Watch on Instagram
2025
Finding our studio
We outgrew our home and found cold cement floors and cracked walls: a little raw, full of potential, and waiting for us.
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Jan 2025
Our next chapter
After two years of running Cozyleigh from home and the basement, we found a space of our own: big, empty rooms of cold concrete that would become our studio.
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Feb 2025
Making it ours
An open, empty space, and the question of how to make it feel like home. We painted, laid new floors, carried the printers over from the basement, built the print wall ourselves and installed a kitchen we designed.
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Mar 2025
Making creativity fun again
Maisy moved her desk into the new studio with one wish for it: to make creativity feel fun again, like the hackathons and makerspaces she loved in school.
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June 2025
The desk mat comes home
The desk mat came back, made by hand in small batches in our new studio: the Pro Desk Mat, and our first Standard Desk Mats alongside it. It became one of our biggest months yet.
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June 2025
Why we started
After six months away, Maisy came back to YouTube with a letter to her mom, and the story behind all of this: keeping our family close, building something together, and making spaces that feel like home. As she put it, we're not mass producing. We're a family, and every piece goes from our hands to your home.
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July 2025
A studio built around a compass
We designed the studio the way old feng shui and Japanese tea houses do, with each direction holding its own energy. The east, where you walk in, is for beginnings: a place to leave your stress at the door. The south is light and expression. The north is focus, where our desks sit side by side. And the west is for making, the workshop where everything comes full circle.
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Sept 2025
Meet the Cozyleigh family
A day at the studio with all of us around one table: brunch, a new desk setup and our first café corner chat.
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Nov 2025
A channel for the studio
Cozyleigh got its own YouTube channel: quiet mornings printing, packing and making your pieces one at a time. A little video of us packing what we started calling "the internet's most loved phone stand" found almost a million people, and packing days became something we love to share.
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Dec 2025
Medium Pro Desk Mats
Our Pro Desk Mat arrived in a new Medium size, with the same layer hidden inside that lets our magnetic pieces snap into place. You'd never know it was there, which is exactly how we wanted the ecosystem to feel.
Shop the desk mat→
2026
Where we are now
A place to leave your stress at the door, remember why you love to make things, and try our best together.
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Jan 2026
One year in the studio
A year after we first walked into cold, empty rooms, the studio finally felt like ours. We added an olive couch to the lounge, and now it's where we end most days.
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Feb 2026
The whole family packs
We turned a day of orders into a family packing competition, and almost fifty million people watched. Dad was later promoted to Chief Box Officer.
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Feb 2026
A first peek at wood
On Maisy's studio desk tour she shared the final prototype of a wooden desk shelf, and a book stand we hoped to launch soon.
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Spring 2026
Making the space feel like home
That spring we slowed right down. Maisy settled into a new desk corner, and we built shoji doors for the woodshop from bare wood and rice glue, the first big thing we'd made by hand in wood. In her words, "I think I'm finally starting to feel like myself again."
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June 2026
The Wood Collection
Our first wood collection, and the most personal thing we've made: the Zen Desk Shelf, Zen Tray and Zen Book Stand, in solid wood from a local lumber yard and made to order. Each one goes out with an illustrated card, numbered and stamped by hand with Maisy's seal.
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July 2026
The Fa Stackable Trinket Tray
Fa (花) means flower in Cantonese. The four-petal shape comes from Chinese design, the lip of the lid from a gaiwan, and the way the trays stack from a bamboo dumpling steamer. We first shared the idea of stackable trinket trays back in 2022.
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July 2026
The flood
A storm sent water through the studio, from the woodshop to the print wall. We lifted what we could, mopped together and dried it out, and kept making.
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July 2026
A seal on every card
With our summer drop, Maisy started designing and printing a card for every drop here in the studio, each with one of Ash's illustrations, and stamping each one by hand with the Chinese seal she brought home from China in 2017. In Asian art, a seal is how the maker leaves their mark.
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Aug 2026
The first Zen Book Stands
Our first batch of Zen Book Stands went out, every one made by hand in the studio and held together with tusk tenons. The design started from a book stand from our mom's childhood, so sending these to your homes meant a lot to us.
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Sept 2026
Zen keycaps, in Marshmallow
Our Zen keycaps with Osume arrived in a soft new Marshmallow profile, with novelty keys drawn by Ash.
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Sept 2026
Four years of Cozyleigh
Four years after our first desk mat, we spent the summer making everything ourselves: late nights sanding at the long table, a flood we mopped out together, and the first wooden pieces leaving for your homes.
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Now
Wood and print, side by side
Today our studio holds a woodshop and a wall of 3D printers, a long table for packing, a corner for lunch and tea, and desks built from the same maple as our pieces. The three of us make everything here together, and our fall collection is on its way.
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