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Birthdays at 1712 Studios

Birthday Venue In Seattle. Not A Banquet Hall.

Most Seattle birthday venues hand you one beige room, a seating chart, and a last call at midnight. That works for some people. If your birthday is the kind where the music gets louder and people end up in a completely different room than the one they walked into, this is your building.

Friday Night: $1,950 flat. Six hours anywhere between 5pm and 2am, up to 120 guests, bartender, one security guard, and cleaning included. That price holds through December 31, 2026.

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The Building

What The Night Looks Like Here

1712 Studios is a two floor industrial warehouse in SODO. It is not one room with a divider in the middle. It is four spaces that each feel different, which is the whole reason a birthday here stops feeling like a rental and starts feeling like a night out. Fully indoor, so nothing about your plan depends on Seattle weather.

Downstairs
Main Hall

The big room. Double height ceilings, the dance floor, the Mackie system with subs, a DJ booth ready for your DJ, and a 110 inch screen for the photo reel of every bad haircut you ever had. This is the room the party ends up in.

The Whole Upstairs
Speakeasy

Darker, lower, its own bar. This is where the people who came to talk go, and where the people who came to dance disappear to when they need ten minutes. One building, two completely different moods.

Downstairs, In Back
Back Venue

Double height and open. Dinner early, live band later, or the overflow room when 120 people show up and only 90 said yes. Add it when your night needs a second act.

Roll Up Door
Back Garage

Catering staging, a dessert table, a photo corner, or a taco truck pulled straight inside. Fully indoor, so Seattle weather never becomes part of your plan.

The Package That Fits

Friday Night

Most birthdays land on a Friday, so this is the one we built for them. One number, said out loud, with the bar and the door already handled.

Friday, 6 hours, up to 120 guests
Friday Night
$1,950

$1,950 through December 31, 2026. It goes to $2,450 after that, and both floors instead of one is $2,850 now or $3,350 then. Extra hours are $175, and that price already pays the bartender, the guard and the manager for the extra hour. Deposit is 50% to lock the date.

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If Friday Is Not Your Number

Four other ways into the same building. Nothing about the rooms changes, only the day and the guest count.

The Weekday
$1,200

Sunday through Thursday, 4 hours, up to 120 guests. Main Hall plus cleaning. Dry event, no bar service. The cheapest way to get this building. Extra hours $250.

Weeknight Mixer
$1,750

Monday through Thursday, 5pm to 10pm, 5 hours, up to 100 guests. Bartender and one security guard included. Good for a birthday on an actual birthday. Extra hours $175, staff included.

Sunday Day Party
$1,750

Any 6 hours between noon and 10pm on a Sunday, up to 100 guests. Bartender and one guard included. Daylight, a long afternoon, everyone drives home at a reasonable hour. Extra hours $175, staff included.

Saturday Package
$3,950

Six hours until 2am, up to 250 guests, Main Hall plus the Speakeasy, bartender, two guards, cleaning. $3,950 in 2026, then $4,450. This is the big one. Extra hours $200.

Milestones

30, 40, 50, 60

A 30th is usually 80 to 120 people, a DJ, and a bar that never stops. The Friday Night package was built for exactly that. A 40th tends to be smaller, louder, and later, and people want the Speakeasy open so the ones who came to talk have somewhere to go. A 50th and a 60th almost always means three generations in the room at once, which is where having two floors quietly earns its money: grandparents upstairs with a drink, everybody else on the floor.

Surprise parties work here because the front of the building gives nothing away until the door opens. And if you are planning a quinceañera, that has its own page with the court, the vals, and the changing room covered: quinceañera venue in Seattle.

The Honest Part

Who This Works For, And Who It Does Not

Book it if
  • 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and every milestone in between
  • A party that moves: cocktails in one room, dancing in another
  • Your DJ, your playlist, your bottles, your food
  • 50 to 250 guests who are mostly on their feet
  • A host who wants the night to look like them, not like a hotel
  • Anyone who has been to four birthdays in the same beige room this year
Skip it if
  • One big room, everyone seated from the first toast to the last, formal service all night. A ballroom will genuinely make you happier.
  • A seated dinner for 150 at assigned tables. We seat about 50 with dinner tables set.
  • Ticketed parties, cover charges, or anything promoted to the public.
  • Cash bars. Nobody sells alcohol in this building, including us.

We would rather lose you on this page than on a tour. If your event sits, we are not your place. If it moves, nobody in Seattle does it better for the money.

Three Things People Call Us About

Read The Fine Print. There Is None.

No Service Charge

Other Seattle venues add 20 to 23 percent to the bottom of your invoice and call it service. We add zero. The number you are quoted is the number you pay.

No Food And Drink Minimum

Nobody here tells you to spend $4,000 on catering you did not want. Your family cooking, a caterer, trays from your favorite restaurant, or a taco truck in the back garage. Your call, every time.

Open Until 2am

Most of Seattle stops at midnight. Your guests are not finished at midnight. The building is yours until 2am, and that is written into the package, not sold back to you later.

4.7 on Google. 5.0 on Peerspace across 293 reviews. More than 200 events hosted in this building.

Birthday Questions

The Things You Are Actually Wondering

How many people actually fit for a birthday?

The Friday Night package covers up to 120 guests in the Main Hall. The Saturday Package opens the Speakeasy too and covers up to 250. The full building holds 400. Here is the honest part about seating: we own 80 chairs, 4 round tables that seat about 40 people, and 2 six foot tables. A 120 person birthday here is a party that moves, with seating around the edges, not 120 people at assigned tables. If you need everyone seated all night, book fewer guests or rent more furniture.

Can I bring my own alcohol?

Yes, on every package. You buy the bottles wherever you want, and our licensed bartenders serve them. Hard liquor is welcome. There is no per guest alcohol fee any more, bar service is included in the package price. Outside bartenders are not permitted, and nothing can be sold, so no cash bar and no cover charge. You bring a Washington banquet permit and we walk you through how to get it.

Can I bring my own food, or do I have to use your caterer?

Bring whatever you want. There is no food and drink minimum and no approved caterer list. Your aunt cooking all day, a caterer, trays from your favorite restaurant, or a taco truck parked in the back garage. That is one of the main reasons people pick this building over a hotel.

How late can the party go?

Until 2am. Most Seattle venues stop at midnight, and most birthdays are not finished at midnight. Setup and breakdown happen inside your booked window, so plan for that when you pick your hours. There is a 15 minute grace period to load out, and overtime after that bills by the hour.

What if Friday is too much money?

Take a weekday. The Weekday is $1,200 for 4 hours Sunday through Thursday, up to 120 guests, dry. The Weeknight Mixer is $1,750 Monday through Thursday, 5pm to 10pm, up to 100 guests, and includes a bartender and one guard. Sunday Day Party is $1,750 for any 6 hours between noon and 10pm. Same building, same rooms, smaller number.

How do I hold my date?

Take a tour first, it takes about 20 to 30 minutes and costs nothing. If it is a fit, a signed agreement and a 50% deposit lock your date. Deposits are non refundable, but you can move everything you have paid to a new date within 12 months instead of losing it.

Come See It Before You Decide

Tours run about 20 to 30 minutes and cost nothing. Walk the Main Hall, go upstairs, hear the system, and leave with an exact number for your date. If it is not your venue, we will say so on the spot.

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1712 1st Ave S · Seattle, WA 98134
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