Custom Lane
Unleash your creativity at Custom Lane: Leith's inspiring hub for design, co-working, and community connection!
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About
If you're walking along Leith's lively Customs Wharf and spot Custom Lane, step inside for a real treat! It’s a brilliant collaborative hub for all things design and making. Imagine a bright, open space crafted with natural materials, buzzing with creative energy. You can grab a dedicated desk or hot-desk for a day, enjoy some of the city's freshest coffee brewed in-house, and even catch a yoga class or a fascinating art exhibition. It’s truly a spot where ideas come to life, and the community vibe is just fantastic for any creative freelancer looking to connect and grow. Plus, there's free parking, which is always a bonus in Leith!
Facilities
Community Venue
Custom Lane is a collaborative center in Leith, Edinburgh, dedicated to design and making, fostering a thriving creative community. It functions as a multi-functional space, offering studio and co-working desks, an exhibition and event space, an artisan coffee shop/cafe, a designer retailer, and a community workshop, all designed to support emerging world-class design in Scotland.
Coworking Space
Custom Lane is a collaborative center for design and making, offering a welcoming and creative co-working space on the ground floor, adjacent to an exhibition space and cafe. It provides dedicated and hot desks, print facilities, high-speed WiFi, and aims to foster a strong community among creative freelancers and design-led businesses in Edinburgh's vibrant Leith neighborhood.
Creative Hub
Custom Lane is a collaborative center for design and making, serving as a multi-functional co-working space for creative businesses and projects in Edinburgh, featuring studios, exhibition and event spaces, an artisan cafe, designer retail, and a community workshop, all designed by GRAS to foster a thriving, engaging, and enriching environment with facilities such as high-speed WiFi, print services, and meeting rooms.
Dining
Custom Lane features an artisan coffee shop and café, known for serving fresh, in-house roasted coffee, providing a welcoming and creative environment for guests.
Fitness Classes
Custom Lane offers weekly yoga classes to help attendees unwind and reconnect.
Work & Study Spaces
The venue offers high-speed WiFi, enabling seamless communication and collaboration, and is generally considered to have fast and reliable internet.
Custom Lane is a collaborative center in Edinburgh designed for creative businesses and projects, offering a welcoming environment for focused work and fostering a thriving, productive culture among designers and makers.
Full Description
Custom Lane is an innovative and collaborative center for design and making located at 1 Customs Wharf, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6AL, UK. It operates as a multi-functional space, encompassing studio and co-working desks, exhibition and events spaces, an artisan coffee shop/cafe, a designer retailer, and a community workshop. The building has a 4.5-star rating based on 41 user reviews and is wheelchair accessible. The workspace offers flexible membership plans, with prices ranging from £180 to £300 per month for dedicated desks, which are custom-designed and fabricated, providing a large lockable desk and cork-lined individual wall space. Dedicated desk memberships are on a month-to-month rolling contract and include access to the studio kitchen, meeting room, WiFi, and print facilities, with 24/7 access for key-holding residents. Hot-desking is available on the ground floor, adjacent to the public-facing Exhibition Space and Café, at a price of £5 per half day or £10 per day. Studio opening times for coworking are 8 am-5 pm, Monday-Friday. Custom Lane's overall operating hours are Monday to Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm, and Sunday from 9 am to 4 pm. Some spaces have extended hours for events, with Event Space and Meeting Room available from 9 am to 10 pm Monday-Friday, and 9 am to 22:00 on weekends. The Exhibition Space is available from 9 am to 9 pm daily. The venue also offers in-house catering and allows external catering (with waste removal required). Free on-street parking is available. The space fosters a thriving local creative community, designed by award-winning Scottish Design Studio, GRAS, using natural raw materials to create a light, open, inspiring environment. It is committed to supporting local design and creative businesses to develop their ideas and grow the industry. Past and upcoming events include "Yoga with Cecilia" (weekly yoga classes), "Communal Infrastructures | Architecture Fringe" (exhibition), "Communal Infrastructures | Exhibition Opening", and "Communal Infrastructures | Communal Synergies Workshop". Facilities include WiFi, heating, air conditioning, a lounge area, kitchen, personal lockers, free drinking water, and free coffee. The meeting room has conference call facilities and a projector. The venue is popular for parties, meetings, conferences, function rooms, corporate events, photo studios, filming locations, rehearsal studios, and performances.