City of Hamilton
Custom cabinetry and remodeling in Stoney Creek.
- Region
- City of Hamilton
- From our office
- Stoney Creek is about twenty-five minutes from the Ancaster office, across the top of the city on the Lincoln Alexander Parkway. Above the brow it is a straight run east on Mud Street; for the village, the lakeshore and everything below it we come down the Red Hill or turn off at Centennial Parkway. No travel charge applies.
- Consultation
- Free, in your home
- Travel charge
- None
What we're usually asked for here.
- 01Heritage Green, Valley Park and the Mountain brow
- On Stoney Creek Mountain the two-storeys still carry the package the builder put in, down to a microwave-hood recirculating its own steam back into the room. What is different up here is the substrate: the substrate is true — plumb walls, square openings — so nothing disappears into a scribe allowance. The elevation can be set out symmetrically — drawer fronts of matching width down the run, a gola channel unbroken end to end.
- 02Lower Stoney Creek, 1950s to 1970s
- The band between the escarpment and the QEW is bungalows, sidesplits and backsplits on long narrow lots. The rooms are straightforward but for one catch: many of these houses picked up a rear addition or an enclosed side porch in the 1970s or 80s, and the only wall out of true is the seam where the original house meets it. That joint gets measured first and absorbs the entire correction, because a change at a seam reads as a change in the building.
- 03The village core is smaller than it looks
- The old core is a few blocks of King Street East under the escarpment, with a thin band of older houses behind it. A handful of streets, not a district. If your house is one of them it wants the slower method, and we will say so when we measure. For most Stoney Creek addresses it does not apply, and carrying a century-house allowance into an estimate for a house built in 2006 means paying for time nobody is going to spend.
- 04Winona and Fruitland, built on the orchards
- The orchard land east toward Fifty Point has gone under subdivision in stages, and those are the newest houses we work in. On a narrow lot with the garage forward, the kitchen lands mid-plan with no window, borrowing light from the great room at the far end. That moves the finish decision more than people expect: a super-matte front absorbs what little daylight reaches it, a gloss one mirrors the window behind you, and the colour that looked right at noon is not the one you live with.
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Custom Cabinetry
Frameless European cabinetry drawn to the millimetre — slab fronts, tall units to the ceiling, and finishes from super-matte lacquer to book-matched veneer.
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Home Renovations
A room stripped back and rebuilt in one planned sequence, with a frameless European kitchen at the centre of it and the footprint left where it is.
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Home Remodeling
Walls, openings and rooms rearranged so the floor plan suits how you live, with a frameless European kitchen sitting at the centre of the new plan.
Six steps, and you only have to be home for one.
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Book a Consultation
Call the Ancaster office or send a note through the site and we will find a time that suits your week, evenings and Saturdays included. Before the appointment we ask a few questions about the room, the budget range you have in mind and how the space is actually used day to day.
You receive a confirmed appointment window and the name of the consultant coming to your door.
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We Come to You
A design consultant arrives at your home with a case of slab door samples in super-matte, gloss, textured melamine and veneer, plus gola and finger-pull sections you can put your hand into, hinges and runners to work, edge profiles and finish boards. We walk the room together, talk through what is not working now, and hold finishes up against your own floors, counters and light.
You see every finish and opening system in the room it is meant for, with no drive and no showroom floor.
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Design & Estimate
If you want to take it further, we measure the room before the consultant leaves. The drawing is done back at the studio, not at your table: a computerized design with plan, elevations and 3D views to your room's real dimensions takes a couple of days to do properly. The estimate that comes with it itemizes cabinetry, surfaces, hardware and labour, so you can see exactly where the money goes.
Drawings and a detailed written estimate reach you within a couple of days of the visit — free, with absolutely no obligation.
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Production & Coordination
Once the drawings are signed off, doors, boxes and drawer fronts go into production and the countertop template is booked. Deliveries and trades are sequenced so material does not sit in your garage for six weeks waiting on something else to arrive.
You get a production schedule with the dates that affect your household marked on it.
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Professional Installation
Installers protect floors and stair runs before anything comes through the door, then set and shim the frameless boxes dead level and scribe the end panels to the wall. Fronts are adjusted at the end of the install until the reveals read consistently at 3mm across the run and the gola channel lines through from one end of the kitchen to the other.
You get a swept site each evening and one point of contact for the length of the installation.
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Final Inspection & Completion
We walk the finished room with you and write down anything that is not right, from a hinge that wants a quarter turn to a filler that needs trimming. Nothing is called complete until that list is empty and you have signed off on it.
You receive care instructions, spare hardware and the warranty in writing.
Working in Stoney Creek.
Not since 2001, when it amalgamated into the City of Hamilton. Permits come from the same division as a Hamilton or Ancaster address, and cabinetry going back into the existing layout needs none. The difference here is conservation: Hamilton Conservation Authority covers most of Stoney Creek, while the eastern watersheds fall to the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority. Which applies depends on the address, and we settle that before drawing.
No. Stoney Creek is the far side of the same city our office sits in, about twenty-five minutes, and there is no charge for the visit. The consultant brings the sample case to your kitchen; the computerized design and the written estimate that follow are free as well, and nothing in any of it commits you.
Partly, and it is worth saying where it stops. Under-cabinet LED at around 3000K, lighting inside the tall units and a lit toe recess make the room pleasant after dark, and all of it is easier to run while the walls are open than to retrofit later. None of it replaces daylight. If a window or a skylight is possible on your elevation, that is the better first move, and it belongs in the conversation before the cabinetry is drawn.
It touches the delivery day rather than the project. The escarpment accesses are the part of a Stoney Creek job the weather actually reaches, and we would sooner move a delivery by a day than put a loaded truck on the Red Hill in freezing rain. If that call has to be made you hear it from us the evening before, not on the morning.
We can be at your Stoney Creek home this week.
Choose an hour that suits you. Your consultant brings door styles, colour and finish samples, hardware and design ideas — then follows up within a couple of days with a computerized design and a detailed estimate. Free, with no obligation.