Kitchen studios are the hardest hire prices to find in the UK, because there are so few of them - The Pass at Story + Space is one of only three in the Midlands. So here are the real numbers: non-members book half days at £350 inc VAT (£291.67 ex), with full days by quotation. Members book by the hour at £102 including VAT (£85 ex). The rate covers two fully styled kitchen sets in one room - one light and minimal, one dark and moody - with professional appliances and multiple camera angles.
Why do kitchen studios cost more than ordinary hire spaces? Because a working kitchen on camera is expensive to build and run: real appliances, water, power for kit, surfaces that look right in close-up, and a room that can host a crew. Nationally, crew-ready kitchen studios commonly run several hundred pounds to over a thousand for a full day. The half-day structure exists because food shoots rarely fit an hour: prep, cook, style, shoot, reset takes time, and two kitchen looks in one room means a single booking yields twice the content.
The Pass is priced for how food content actually gets made: half days at £350 inc VAT for everyone, hourly at £102 including VAT (£85 ex) for members who shoot regularly. Both kitchen sets are included in every booking.
Crew-ready kitchen studios commonly run several hundred pounds to £1,000+ per day nationally, and there are very few of them - most cities have none. The Pass at Story + Space costs £350 inc VAT for a half day, with full days by quotation and a £102/hr inc VAT members rate.
Members can. For everyone else, half days exist because food shoots need prep, cooking, styling, shooting and reset time - an hour in a kitchen studio produces very little. The half-day structure means you leave with content rather than a rushed start.
Both kitchen sets (light and dark), professional appliances, multiple camera angles, Wi-Fi and power throughout, and technical support on hand. The Pass is dry hire on the kit side: bring your own camera and lighting, or add equipment hire. You bring ingredients and your recipe; the room does the rest.
Home kitchens fight you: mixed light, tight angles, backgrounds you cannot change and neighbours at 9pm. One half day here yields a batch of recipe videos across two distinct looks - most food creators bank a month of content per visit, which changes the cost-per-video maths completely.
Full days are quoted to the brief, because crew size, kit and turnaround vary so much between a supermarket campaign and a creator batch day. Send the brief through the contact page and you will have a number the same day.
Bookings are open. Founding member pricing is still available for the first 50 members - leave your email for the details.
