Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Montréal
The cabinets are the part of a kitchen you touch every single day, so the difference between stock and custom shows up fast. Off-the-shelf cabinetry comes in fixed widths, which means fillers, awkward gaps, and a layout that bends to fit the boxes instead of your room.
Custom kitchen cabinets in Montréal are built to your exact dimensions and the way you actually use the space. At Limakdéco, that is the only way we work, for homes across Saint-Laurent and the surrounding areas. You can see five finished kitchens, with the materials and the timeline for each, on our custom kitchen projects page.
Custom made kitchen, made-to-measure cabinets, bespoke cabinetry, tailored kitchen. Different words, one thing: cabinets drawn and built for your room rather than picked off a shelf. Everything here is made in our own Saint-Laurent workshop, which is what lets us match an odd wall, a bulkhead or a century-old floor that is not quite level.
Planning more than new cabinets? If your project includes demolition, flooring, countertops or coordinated plumbing and electrical work, explore our complete kitchen renovation service in Montréal to understand the scope before requesting a quote.
Materials and finishes for custom kitchen cabinets in Montréal
What goes into a cabinet matters more than most showrooms admit. Our standard cabinet boxes are built from 16 mm melamine panels, then finished in the door style you choose: solid maple or oak for a natural grain, painted MDF for a smooth modern face, or thermofoil and melamine when the budget needs to stretch without giving up durability. To compare cabinet materials layer by layer, read our guide to MDF, melamine and thermofoil cabinets.
Hardware is where daily life happens. Soft-close hinges, full-extension drawer slides, and a finish on the handles that suits the room, brushed brass, matte black, or simple stainless. These are small details, but they are the ones you feel for the next fifteen years. Our cabinet quality checklist explains how to test them on a showroom sample.
Finding your style: modern, classic, or transitional
Most of our clients land in one of three camps. Modern kitchens lean on flat-panel doors, handleless fronts, and quiet colour. Classic kitchens use shaker or raised-panel doors, often in warm whites or deep greens. Transitional sits in between, and it is the most popular request we get in Montréal: clean shaker doors, natural wood on an island, a calm palette that does not date. Our white Shaker kitchen in Bois-Franc is exactly that brief, built out.
There is no single right answer here. We help you read your own home, its light, its bones, the era it was built in, and choose a direction that still feels current in ten years.
Semi-custom or fully custom kitchen cabinets?
Semi-custom cabinets come from a fixed catalogue of sizes and are adjusted with fillers where they do not quite fit. They are cheaper and faster, and for a straightforward rectangular kitchen they can be a sensible choice. Fully custom cabinets are drawn to the millimetre for your room, so widths, heights and depths can match the layout. Planned fillers, scribes and clearances may still be needed for uneven walls, door movement and appliances.
In practice, the price gap is smaller than most people expect once you count the storage you lose to fillers. We will tell you honestly when semi-custom would serve you just as well, and when your layout genuinely needs made-to-measure cabinets. Our guide to stock, semi-custom and custom kitchen cabinets compares the three approaches.
How made-to-measure solves tricky layouts
This is where custom earns its keep. Older Montréal homes, common in neighbourhoods like Plateau-Mont-Royal, Outremont, and Rosemont, throw curveballs: a radiator under the window, a chimney chase in the corner, a ceiling that drops over an old doorway. Stock cabinets simply cannot answer those problems, so you end up with dead space and a contractor improvising fillers on site. See how we solved exactly that in our custom kitchen cabinets in Pointe-Claire.
Made-to-measure cabinets are designed around exactly those obstacles. A cabinet can run full height to a sloped ceiling, wrap a column cleanly, or turn a narrow galley into real storage with pull-outs and a pantry tower. The result uses every centimetre you paid for.
From idea to installed cabinets
We start with a conversation in our Saint-Laurent showroom or at your home, then measure the room precisely. You approve the layout, finishes, and hardware in 3D before anything is built, the same design process we follow on every project. Fabrication follows, the cabinets arrive, and our installers fit and adjust every door and drawer until it sits right. If you want the full picture of installation day, read our guide to custom kitchen installation in Montréal.
Custom made kitchens across Montréal neighbourhoods
Most of our work is on the island. We build custom made kitchens in Villeray, Ahuntsic, Rosemont, Outremont, Mount Royal, Saint-Laurent, the Plateau and Côte-des-Neiges, as well as Westmount, Hampstead, Côte Saint-Luc and the West Island towns of Pointe-Claire, Beaconsfield, Kirkland and Dollard-des-Ormeaux. We also take projects in Laval, Longueuil and on the South Shore.
Older Montréal duplexes and plexes come with their own quirks: narrow doorways, sloping floors, radiators in the wrong place. Because we are the cabinet maker as well as the installer, we solve those on the drawing rather than on site. When the cabinets are ready, the same team handles the kitchen installation from start to finish.
Why homeowners choose Limakdéco for custom kitchen cabinets
Limakdéco is designed and run by four women, Sogol, Sepideh, Shadieh, and Ayda. As custom kitchen cabinet makers, we manufacture every cabinet in-house rather than reselling factory units, which keeps both the standards and the quality high, and that has earned us a 5.0 rating across 47 Google reviews. We serve homes across Saint-Laurent and the West Island, including Pierrefonds, Pointe-Claire, Kirkland, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, and Beaconsfield, as well as central Montréal neighbourhoods such as Ahuntsic, Villeray, Outremont, Town of Mount Royal, Hampstead, Côte-Saint-Luc, and Westmount, plus Laval and Longueuil on the South Shore. We regularly design and build custom kitchens for homeowners in Hampstead and Côte-Saint-Luc, where older homes often need cabinetry made to fit rather than forced from stock sizes. For custom kitchen cabinets in Montréal, you work with the same design-led team from sketch to install.
You work with the same people from the first sketch to the final adjustment, which is rare on a project this size. For the materials we trust on doors and surfaces, we work with suppliers like Richelieu Hardware, a Québec company that supplies much of the industry here.
Stock versus custom cabinets is a weekly argument on Reddit. We will show you the joinery side by side so you can judge it yourself.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a custom kitchen take?
The schedule depends on design approval, material availability, fabrication capacity and the condition of the room. Cabinet production and on-site installation are separate stages, and countertop templating can add another visit. Use our Montréal kitchen renovation timeline to plan the sequence, then confirm dated milestones in your written quote.
Which areas do you serve?
We work with homeowners across Saint-Laurent, the West Island, and central Montréal, including Hampstead, Côte-Saint-Luc, Outremont, and Town of Mount Royal, as well as Laval and the South Shore.
Can I see materials before deciding?
Yes. You are welcome to visit our Saint-Laurent showroom to explore finishes, door styles, and hardware in person before you commit to anything, and you approve the full layout in 3D before we build.
What does a custom made kitchen cost in Montréal?
Custom cabinets are approximately CAD $550 to $850 per linear foot. Cabinets with countertops start around CAD $15,000, depending on materials and scope. This is not the total price of a complete kitchen renovation; demolition, flooring, plumbing and electrical work are quoted separately. If your existing boxes are sound and you mainly want a new look, cabinet refacing starts far lower, around $2,500.
What is the difference between semi-custom and custom cabinets?
Semi-custom cabinets are catalogue sizes fitted with filler strips. Custom cabinets are built to your exact measurements, so storage can be tailored while allowing the fillers and clearances needed for a working installation. Custom also lets you choose any height, depth and finish rather than the ones on the price list.
Are you a custom cabinet maker near me?
Our workshop and showroom are in Saint-Laurent, a short drive from most of Montréal, the West Island and Laval. You are welcome to come and see door samples, finishes and countertop slabs before you decide anything.
Ready to start?
Tell us about your kitchen and we will put together a clear plan and a written quote. We reply within 48 hours.
Visit our Saint-Laurent showroom at 4130 Boulevard Thimens, Saint-Laurent, QC H4R 2B9.
Cabinets are quoted by the linear foot, and they are the largest single item in most kitchens. See the full cost of a custom kitchen, priced by component, for how they sit alongside countertops, installation and design.
