Sydney studio design & build
Every business makes content now. We build the part of your business that creates it.
Meros designs and builds studios for photography, video and podcast production in Sydney — from a single consult to a complete turnkey fit-out. Every project starts with the same three questions: what are you trying to produce, how often will you produce it, and what is it actually worth spending to get there?
Who we build for
Every business creates content differently.
Corporate teams need an in-house studio that survives daily bookings without a specialist running it — marketing, training, and comms content on tap. E-commerce brands need consistent product and campaign output without outsourcing every shoot. Service businesses need a space that makes them look as credible as the work they do. Schools and universities need a room built for turnover — one space, many students, minimal supervision. Government departments need something procurement-compliant and built to last. And if you already shoot for a living, you already know what you need — we just build it properly.
The honest number
What does a studio build actually cost?
It depends on the room far more than the gear, so the honest answer comes in bands, not a single number. A basic studio starts from around $8,000, with cameras and audio quoted separately. Most projects start with a $250 site inspection in Sydney metro.
We can build to a budget, but we’d rather build to an outcome.
$8k–$30k
A basic studio in an existing room
$30k–$120k
A dedicated single-purpose studio
$120k+
An isolated broadcast or podcast facility
All prices include GST. Cameras and audio are quoted separately.
The goal is never to sell you everything. It's to build exactly what gets your production working.
How we work
Two ways to work with Meros
Sound is a different problem
Podcast and broadcast rooms fail for the same reason
People treat sound as a decoration problem. It isn't. A room-within-a-room built for isolation and one built for good acoustics solve two completely different jobs, with two different budgets. Absorbers at the first reflection points, bass trapping in the corners, and a target reverberation time around 0.3 to 0.4 seconds for speech is where treatment starts — isolation is a separate, structural cost.
The curve itself
White cyc and chromakey green solve opposite problems
A white cyclorama is built to disappear — even, shadowless light across a seamless curve so the background reads as nothing at all. A chromakey green cyc is built to be replaced — flat, consistent saturation the keyer can cut cleanly, with spill control so green doesn't creep onto the subject. They share the same curve construction but almost nothing else: different paint, different lighting ratios, different floor treatment, and different rules for what you can put in the room.
Common problem
Think your room's too small? Usually, it's not.
The most common brief we get is a room that looks too small on paper. Depth beats floor area — what limits a small studio is the distance between the subject and the background, not the room's total size.
Ceiling height decides the lighting rig you can run. Wall treatment decides how flat a small room can actually look. Get those three right, and small rooms work harder than people expect.
Get a direction, not a guess
How a project starts
01 Studio Planner. Free, about three minutes. A written direction back within a week.
02 Site inspection, $250. In Sydney metro: about 30 minutes on site, then a basic design and a proposal.
03 Quote or design. Small jobs get a fixed quote. Bigger studios start with a design deposit from $1,800, which covers up to nine hours of design time.
After the build
Stuck on how to actually use it?
Every build includes hands-on training for the people who'll run the room, a quick-start guide written for your studio, and phone and email support. Want your team to go further, or need group training that isn't tied to a build at all? That's covered too.
Most studio builders sell you their catalogue. We start with what you're actually trying to produce.
WHY MEROS
Every studio we build has to answer one question first: what does this room need to make, and how often?
We're based in Sydney, with builds outside Sydney considered case by case and consulting available anywhere by video. Everything else (the gear, the finish, the budget) follows from that one question. Meros is Greek for "part": we build the part of your business that creates content, and nothing you don't need.