Modern European Kitchen Cabinets

No, and that is deliberate. We keep no public showroom; a design consultant drives to your house with finish panels, a length of gola profile, veneer samples and the push-to-open hardware. Super-matte and high-gloss read completely differently under a north window than they do under showroom spots, and that is where the decision is really made. You leave the appointment with a computerized design, elevations and an itemized estimate at no charge.

It comes down to how the room gets used. A gola channel forgives wet or floury hands and gives you one continuous horizontal line across a long run. An integrated finger-pull leaves the material unbroken, which suits veneer where the grain should carry across the whole bank. Push-to-open is the flattest of the three and the right answer on a tall unit or an island end, though it wants a light touch from children who lean on things. Most of our kitchens use two of the three in one room.

Fingerprints are the honest answer, and they show most on dark gloss. Acrylic-faced fronts wipe clean easily and hold their reflection far better than a sprayed gloss, which is why we specify them on the doors people actually touch. If you want quiet rather than reflective, super-matte anti-fingerprint lacquer gives a deep flat surface that shrugs off marks a standard matte would keep.

Yes. Most of our work is modern European, but a painted Shaker or five-piece door is still built in the shop, and some houses genuinely call for it. Say so at the appointment and those samples come out with everything else.

A face frame takes width off every opening, which you feel most in a pot drawer and behind an integrated refrigerator. Frameless boxes give you the full internal width, carry full-height fronts, and hold the reveals even across a run rather than resetting at every cabinet. Laser or PUR edgebanding then closes the panel edge without a visible glue line, which is the detail that separates European work from a typical North American box.

Yes. Have the model numbers ready at the appointment, or we will pull the specification sheets ourselves. Panel sizes, hinge clearances and ventilation gaps come off the manufacturer's rough-in dimensions rather than an assumption, which is what keeps an integrated refrigerator sitting flush with the tall bank beside it.

Hamilton, Ancaster, Dundas, Stoney Creek, Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Milton, Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, Brantford and Brant County, Norfolk County, Haldimand County and the wider GTHA. Our administrative office is at 717 Mohawk Rd in Ancaster, and consultants travel out from there.