Service area · Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal

Custom kitchen cabinets on the Plateau-Mont-Royal, fitted to old rooms

Twenty five minutes from the workshop. Cabinetry drawn around hundred year old casings, carried up an outside staircase, and fitted to walls that have moved since 1912.

What the apartments need

White and wood kitchen in a Montreal plex with a large veined stone waterfall island and an oak strip floor, by Limakdeco — A plex kitchen with an oak strip floor kept as it was. On the Plateau the floor is usually older than everything else in the room and worth designing around rather than replacing.

White shaker kitchen with a dark wood island, pendant lights and a window seat, by Limakdeco — Painted shaker with a wood island. Shaker sits comfortably next to hundred year old door casings, which is the main reason it keeps winning here over anything more modern.

The area

What a kitchen on the Plateau usually needs

The Plateau is about twenty five minutes from the workshop, down Papineau or Saint-Denis depending on the hour. It is the hardest area on this list to deliver into and one of the most interesting to draw for, and those two facts are related.

Nearly everything here is a triplex or a walk-up from between 1900 and 1930. Exterior staircases, sometimes spiral, a hallway you cannot turn a sheet of plywood in, third floor flats with no lift, and a back door onto a balcony above an alley. Ceilings are high, often ten feet, and the original woodwork is frequently intact: deep casings, panelled doors, a plaster medallion, a strip floor that has been sanded four times and is still good. That woodwork sets the terms. A kitchen that ignores it looks like a showroom dropped into someone's apartment.

Practically, three things decide a Plateau project. First, whether the kitchen keeps its original position or moves, which usually depends on the plumbing stack and rarely on preference. Second, how much of the room can be given to storage without closing off the light from the single rear window. Third, the delivery. We measure the staircase, the turn on the landing and every door opening, size the boxes to go up in pieces that fit, and where the street requires it we take out an occupation permit for the truck instead of hoping for a space. None of that is glamorous, and all of it is why the install goes in two days rather than five.

What we usually end up drawing

Painted shaker or a simple flat panel, matched in sheen to the existing trim. Cabinetry to the ceiling on the interior wall, open shelving or nothing at all beside the window. Drawers rather than low doors. A counter depth fridge, because a standard one rarely gets past the hallway. And a quartz counter in something calm, since the room already has a hundred years of pattern in the floor and the mouldings.

How the visit works

We come to the apartment, measure every wall and photograph the stairs, the landing and the doorways. Free, usually within the week.
You get elevations drawn in AutoCAD, so the kitchen is settled on paper before anything is cut.
The price is written, itemised and fixed against those drawings.
Everything is built in Saint-Laurent, then delivered and installed by our own people.
We arrange the parking occupation where the street requires it, and we plan which doors come off.

Working on the PlateauLimakdéco · twenty five minutes away

Area: Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, a borough of Montréal
Streets: Mont-Royal, Saint-Denis, Rachel, Marie-Anne, Duluth, Laurier, Saint-Joseph, Papineau, Boyer
Postal codes: H2H, H2J, H2L, H2T, H2W
From the shop: About 25 minutes from 4130 Boul. Thimens
Route: Highway 40 east, then Papineau or Saint-Denis south
Housing: Triplex and walk-up flats from 1900 to 1930, ten foot ceilings, original woodwork
Typical scope: Kitchen rebuilt in place, cabinetry to the ceiling, original trim kept
Access: Exterior stairs, third floors, everything carried up by hand
Nearby work: Classic English kitchen, Terrebonne
Measure: On site, free, and we measure the staircase as well
Drawings: AutoCAD elevations you approve first
Fabrication: Three to five weeks in Saint-Laurent
On site: One to two days, since the rooms are small
Delivery: Occupation permit taken out in advance where the street requires it
Permits: Cabinetry is finishing work; a moved wall is not. We tell you which you have
Warranty: Ten years on the doors we make

What we are asked for on the Plateau

Custom kitchen cabinetsTriplex kitchen rebuildsPainted shaker frontsTrim and casing matchingCabinets to the ceilingOpen shelvingCounter depth fridge housingDrawers instead of doorsQuiet quartz countersCabinet refinishingBathroom vanitiesHallway and closet joineryRear balcony storageCountertop replacement

Want a price for your kitchen on the Plateau?
The visit is free and so is the written quote. A photograph of the staircase and of the front door frame tells us more about the job than the kitchen photograph does.

What we do here

Every service, on the Plateau

The same eight services we run everywhere else, delivered from a workshop twenty five minutes away. On the Plateau most projects are a rebuild inside the original walls with the trim kept.

Custom kitchen cabinetsDrawn, built and installed from nothing, in our own workshop.Service Kitchen cabinet refacingNew doors and fronts on boxes that are already sound.Service Kitchen installationDelivery, levelling, scribing and finishing, usually one to three days.Service Kitchen countertopsQuartz, quartzite, Dekton and porcelain, templated and installed.Service Cabinet stripping and refinishingStripping, sanding and spraying solid wood and MDF doors.Service Kitchen design and 3D plansMeasured drawings, elevations and 3D views before anything is cut.Service Commercial millworkReception desks, counters and fitted storage for commercial rooms.Service Bathroom vanitiesFloating and floor standing vanities, mirrors and storage towers.Service

Handleless gloss kitchen with wood veneer upper cabinets, a black tap and an integrated dishwasher, by Limakdeco — Handleless fronts with a veneer upper. Where an apartment has already been gutted and the mouldings are gone, this reads better than a pastiche of what used to be there.

Wall mounted navy gloss double vanity with two illuminated round mirrors on a dark brick tiled wall, by Limakdeco — A wall hung double vanity. Plateau bathrooms are often carved out of a former bedroom corner, so hanging the unit and lighting the mirrors is worth more than extra width.

Questions from the Plateau

What people on the Plateau ask us first

Can you get a kitchen up to a third floor flat?

Yes, and it is a normal week for us. At the measure we photograph the staircase, the landing turn and the doorways, then size the boxes so they go up in pieces that actually fit. Doors come off hinges, the banister and the floor get protected, and nothing is dragged. Where the stair is a tight spiral we build the tall units in two sections and join them on site.

Do you work on the Plateau yourselves, or subcontract it?

Ours, from end to end. The measure, the AutoCAD drawings, the fabrication in Saint-Laurent and the installation are all Limakdéco. Here that is not a marketing line: the person who decided the cabinet could be carried up is the person carrying it.

Should we keep the original mouldings and floor?

Almost always. In a Plateau flat the woodwork and the strip floor are worth more to the apartment than any finish we could install beside them. We design the kitchen to stop cleanly against the casing rather than through it, match the paint sheen, and where a section of trim has to be cut we replicate the profile rather than substituting a modern one.

How much does a kitchen cost on the Plateau?

The rooms are small, so the total is usually lower than a suburban kitchen, but the cost per foot is higher because the fitting, the delivery and the scribing take longer. Price follows linear feet, materials, the number of drawers, integrated appliances and the counter. We measure, we draw, and we hand you a written price. Both steps are free.

Can the kitchen move to another room?

Sometimes, and it is worth asking. The limit is almost always the plumbing stack and the drain slope rather than anything structural. We look at where the stack runs at the measure and tell you honestly whether moving the sink is a plumbing afternoon or a project that needs the floor open.

Do we need a permit from the borough?

Replacing cabinetry is interior finishing and normally needs nothing. Moving a load bearing wall, changing plumbing runs, altering an opening or touching anything visible from the street goes through the borough, and the Plateau is stricter than most about the street facing side. Occupying a parking space for the truck also needs a permit on most Plateau streets, and we arrange that ourselves.

We rent. Can we still do this?

You would need the owner's written agreement, and in practice most of our Plateau work is for owner occupiers or for landlords renovating between tenants. If you own one unit in a divided co-ownership, the syndicate usually has to be told before anything touches a common element such as a stack or a facade.

Which nearby areas do you cover?

Villeray is ten minutes north, Ville-Marie and downtown are just south, and we work across the rest of the island, the West Island, Laval and the South Shore. The service areas page lists every one.

Limakdéco builds custom kitchen cabinets on the Plateau-Mont-Royal and next door in Mile End, Outremont, Rosemont and the Village, as well as triplex kitchen rebuilds, cabinet refinishing and stone countertops throughout Montréal. See every area we serve →

Kitchens we finished nearby

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Classic cream shaker kitchen with a maple island and Taj Mahal quartzite in Terrebonne

Terrebonne · 2025

A Classic English Kitchen

Modern white shaker kitchen with a Renoir quartz backsplash in Bois-Franc, Saint-Laurent

Bois-Franc · 2024

White Shaker and Renoir Quartz

Two tone kitchen with a sage green island, gold sink and Vicostone Beryl quartz in Pointe-Claire

Pointe-Claire · 2026

Green and Gold Kitchen

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Other areas we serve

One workshop, one crew, and a van that covers the island most days of the week.

Pointe-ClairePost-war bungalows and split-levels around the Village and Valois, about twenty minutes from the shop.Service area HampsteadLarger 1950s houses off Queen Mary and Fleet, where new fronts have to answer existing millwork.Service area BeaconsfieldLakeside houses on Beaconsfield Boulevard and the streets above Highway 20.Service area VillerayDuplex and triplex kitchens off Jarry and Villeray, narrow rooms that get measured twice.Service area PierrefondsWest Island bungalows and semis. We finished a handleless kitchen here in 2026.Service area Ville-MarieDowntown condos and Old Montréal lofts, with freight lifts and booked delivery windows.Service area Côte-Saint-LucHouses off Cavendish and Mackle, and the towers where the elevator has to be reserved.Service area WestmountGreystones and stone semis above Sherbrooke, usually painted shaker or inset fronts.Service area KirklandNineteen eighties and nineties houses, with the floor area for a real island.Service area Saint-LaurentOur own borough. The workshop is on Thimens, so a site visit is usually the same week.Service area Dollard-des-OrmeauxSplit-levels off Sources and Lake, refacing and full replacements in equal measure.Service area Every area we serveThe full list, with the drive time from the workshop in Saint-Laurent.Service areas

Planning a kitchen on the Plateau?

Five planning steps before you order a kitchenPlanning Custom kitchen cabinets in Montréal, built to measureGuide Refacing kitchen cabinets in Montréal, and when it beats replacingGuide Quartz, quartzite or Dekton: three countertop materials comparedMaterials What happens on installation day, in six stepsProcess

Limakdéco showroom at 4130 Boulevard Thimens, Saint-Laurent, Montréal

4130 Boul. Thimens, Saint-Laurent

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Twenty five minutes away, on Thimens

Showroom: 4130 Boulevard Thimens, Saint-Laurent, QC H4R 2B9Free parking at the door
Hours: Mon to Fri · 10am to 6pmSaturday 11am to 4pm
Phone: (514) 887-3324
Email: info@limakdeco.com

Free visit→Drawings and a written price→Built and installed by us

From the Plateau, take Saint-Denis or Papineau north to the 40 west and exit at Thimens. Free parking at the door, and the doors, quartz samples and hardware are all out on the floor.

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