Your backyard office, yoga studio, library, gym, recording room, guest suite, spiritual retreat, kid-free, clutter-free, dream world.

We use sustainable, natural materials. We manufacture our building components offsite and then we deliver and rapidly assemble our units onsite.

Poplar Seed

Our products are built with modular, engineered wood cassettes and filled with hemp wool insulation. This innovative structural approach allows us to quickly assemble units on site.

We are committed to using natural, healthy materials. All of our units are wrapped in a waterproof membrane and clad in upcycled rice hull composite siding. Floors are made of wide European white oak boards, and walls are made of organically dyed wood fiber panels. Ceilings are an LED lit stretched canvas fabric.

All units come with an efficient split-mini system for heating and cooling + electrical outlets.

Backyard Pods

Why Poplar?

Materials that matter.

What things are made of really matters. These are the materials you interact with everyday, you touch, you breath. We have a responsibility to use the good stuff. Whenever possible, we don’t use vinyls, foams, plastics and high-VOC crap.

Spaces that sing.

We believe in the capacity of design to create personal, emotional responses. We want you to find harmony in our structures, to be motivated, calmed and delighted by the light and warmth that they convey.

Built better.

We leverage digital manufacturing to reduce waste, minimize mistakes, make the outcome predictable, the pricing transparent and the quality constant. We assemble our units quickly with a well orchestrated team.


  • Hemp Wool Insulation

  • White Oak

  • LED lit Canvas

  • Organically dyed paper fiber

A room of your own