Custom Kitchens designed, built and installed for Westmount — original joinery worth matching, in houses where access is measured before anything is drawn. Our Montreal showroom on Jean-Talon Ouest is a short run north.
Quebec has the widest annual humidity swing of any market we work in, and it is the single most important thing about specifying a kitchen here. A heated interior through a long winter takes moisture out of timber; a humid summer puts it back. Doors, panels and any solid timber element are detailed to accommodate that rather than resist it. In the older housing there is a second constraint on top of it — rooms that are not square, floors that slope, and access up an exterior or interior stair that decides how big a delivered unit can be.
Westmount houses have original woodwork worth protecting — panelled halls, deep mouldings, built-in cabinetry that predates all of us. New work is detailed to sit beside that convincingly, which usually means matching a profile rather than introducing one.
These are heritage-sensitive properties and the borough takes exterior work seriously. Interiors are generally unrestricted, but anything touching an elevation needs confirming first.
Old houses on a hillside means stairs, landings and turns. Access is measured before anything is engineered.
None of this changes by location. It is the standard every custom kitchen leaves the shop to, Westmount included.
A custom kitchen is not a better-made version of a stock one — it is a different process. The plan is drawn around how the room is actually used and what appliances are going in it, and the cabinetry is then made to that drawing. Nothing is sized to a catalogue module, which is why a custom kitchen fits a room that stock cabinetry can only approximate.
Cabinet widths follow the plan. There are no filler panels covering the difference between a catalogue size and the wall.
The grain match approved on a sample is the grain match delivered, because the same shop sprays every panel in the run.
Every cutout, clearance and ventilation run comes from the appliance list, so we ask for it at the first meeting rather than at the end.
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We work throughout Westmount, including upper Westmount, Victoria Village, the Boulevard and Summit Circle. The housing here is substantial Victorian, Edwardian and early-twentieth-century houses, most with original joinery still in place, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Montreal showroom on Jean-Talon Ouest is a short run north. The showroom is at 4865 Jean-Talon O.. Visit when it suits, or start by sending the plans and we will come back with a number per room.
Every project is photographed room by room with the materials and the detailing listed, so you can see how a job like this is actually put together before you commit to one.
See the custom kitchens we have built
You can also search every finish we specify and every appliance we design around.
One shop draws, finishes and installs all of it, which is why the closet matches the kitchen and there is one number to call when something needs adjusting.
Book a free 30-minute consultation with a designer who works in Westmount every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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