About Hone
A place to do your best work, built by someone who needed it.
Hone is workshops, a makerspace and studios across London and Bristol, for people who make things, design things and build companies, and people on their way there.
The kit, the rooms and the layouts are set up the way working makers would set them up. Around you is a community of more than 150 makers, designers and founders who share work, borrow skills and bring each other in on jobs. Most stay for years, and some have been here more than five.
The founder
Vincent Cullane, cabinet maker and entrepreneur
Vincent trained as a cabinet maker and ran his own design and bespoke furniture companies for eighteen years. He knew exactly what a proper workshop needed, and he couldn’t rent one anywhere. So he built one, to the standard a working professional needs: two 1911 factory buildings on the Limehouse Cut, converted himself, with the brick, the timber floors and the light kept.
Hone opened in Limehouse in 2018. Since then he has built it into a multi-site operator: a second site in Bristol in 2023, co-founded with Austin, studio workshops in Tottenham in 2026, and the dance and photography studios that share the Limehouse buildings. Everything is built to the same standard he set for his own bench, which is what people recognise on a tour in the first ten minutes.
Who we are
An independent, multi-site workspace operator for the craft and making sector
We run workshops, a makerspace and studios across London and Bristol, each building fitted out to the standard a working maker needs and run as a working community rather than a serviced office.
We take on buildings, convert them and operate them ourselves, and we’ve done it in two cities since 2018. More than 150 makers, designers and founders work across our sites. Most stay for years, and some have been here since we opened. Everyone who works for Hone is paid a Living Wage, and the buildings run on renewable electricity.
The team
The people who run the buildings
The people who show you round are the people who run the place.
Vincent Cullane
Founder
Hone Limehouse
Austin
Co-founder of Hone Bristol, operations and community manager
Hone Bristol
Jai
Operations and community manager
Hone Limehouse
Kim
Workshop manager
Hone Limehouse
Lizzie
Studio manager
Hone Limehouse
Erin
Jewellery lead
Hone Limehouse
James
Workshop manager
Hone Bristol
The buildings
30,000 square feet across two cities
Hone Limehouse
Two 1911 factory buildings on the Limehouse Cut. Woodwork, jewellery, the makerspace and the studios, home to our largest community.
Hone Tottenham
Studio workshops in north London, N15, from £210 a month all in, open from 15 October 2026.
Hone Bristol
A working cabinet shop in Fishponds, open since 2023, with jewellery opening early 2027.
Who’s here
In their own words
“Lovely community of talented makers and creative people carving out their businesses in London.”
Gustave AndreGoogle review
“I can’t imagine the day I would be wanting to leave this place.”
Giulia SannaJewellery workshop, member since 2022
“Was lucky to find the space when my business launched. A rare one in London with great community and natural lighting.”
Dhruv KumarLiveGrid, makerspace
The rest of it
Socials, private views, and dinner on the roof when the weather allows
Get in touch
Hone Limehouse
16 Pixley Street, Limehouse, London E14 7DF
Hone Bristol
2A and 2B Industrial Estate, Balaclava Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3LJ
Come and see it for yourself
The weekly tour takes you round the makerspace, the workshops and the building, with whoever is making things that day. It’s booked the moment you choose a time.
The weekly viewing takes you round the studio workshops, the shared kitchen and the goods lift. It’s booked the moment you choose a time.
The weekly tour takes you round both floors of the workshop, the bays and the machines, with whoever is making things that day. It’s booked the moment you choose a time.
- When
- Tuesdays 3.30pm and Thursdays 11.30am
- Where
- 16 Pixley Street, Limehouse, London E14 7DF
- Host
- Jai
- Takes
- About twenty minutes, longer if you get talking
- You’ll see
- The makerspace and its machines, the woodwork and jewellery workshops, the studios, the courtyard and the canal
- Then
- Choose a bench, or don’t. There’s no pitch at the end.
- When
- Thursdays, 10am
- Where
- 61 Markfield Road, South Tottenham, London N15 4QA
- Host
- the studio team
- Takes
- About twenty minutes, longer if you get talking
- You’ll see
- The studio workshops, the shared kitchen and the large goods lift
- Then
- Choose a bench, or don’t. There’s no pitch at the end.
- When
- Thursdays 4pm and Fridays 10am
- Where
- 2A and 2B Industrial Estate, Balaclava Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3LJ
- Host
- Austin
- Takes
- About twenty minutes, longer if you get talking
- You’ll see
- Both floors of the workshop, the benches, the machines, the spray booth and the yard
- Then
- Choose a bench, or don’t. There’s no pitch at the end.