Service area · Villeray, Montréal

Custom kitchen cabinets in Villeray, measured for a plex

Twenty minutes from the workshop. Narrow kitchens taken to the ceiling, integrated appliances instead of clutter, and a delivery planned around the staircase.

What the apartments need

Graphite matte flat panel kitchen doors with slim brass bar pulls and a dark quartz backsplash, by Limakdeco — Matte graphite with brass pulls. In a plex kitchen with one window at the end, a dark run along the blind wall and a light one along the window wall works better than one colour everywhere.

Blue kitchen cabinet fronts with a dark speckled quartz counter, an integrated microwave and a stainless fridge, by Limakdeco — An integrated microwave built into the run. In a kitchen nine feet wide, every appliance left sitting on the counter is a foot of working surface you do not get back.

The area

What a kitchen in Villeray usually needs

Villeray is about twenty minutes from the workshop, east on the 40 and down Christophe-Colomb or Saint-Denis. We are in the neighbourhood often, and it is one of the few places where we have learned to measure the staircase before we measure the kitchen.

Almost everything we work in here is a duplex or a triplex built between roughly 1910 and 1955. Long apartments, rooms in a line, a kitchen at the back that is usually between eight and ten feet wide, a rear balcony, and an exterior staircase that was never designed with a fridge in mind. Ceilings are often nine feet or better, which is the saving grace, because the only direction with any room left in these kitchens is up. Original details survive in a lot of them: a plaster cornice, a wood floor worth keeping, sometimes a set of doors with the original hardware still on.

So the design problem in Villeray is almost never style. It is fitting a real kitchen into a corridor. That means a counter depth or an integrated fridge instead of a standard one, a twenty four inch dishwasher only where it genuinely fits, drawers instead of doors so that nothing has to open into the walkway, cabinetry taken to the ceiling with a step ladder hook somewhere sensible, and a decision about whether the wall to the dining room can go. It also means planning the delivery seriously. We take doors off hinges, carry boxes up by hand, and where the street will not allow it we arrange the parking occupation in advance rather than on the morning.

What we usually end up drawing

A single tall run to the ceiling on the blind wall, a shallower run under the window, no upper cabinets where they would block light, and a peninsula only if the walkway survives it. Slim shaker or flat matte fronts. Integrated appliances wherever the budget allows, because in a nine foot room the visual clutter costs more than the money does. And a light quartz counter with a full height backsplash to bounce what daylight there is down the length of the room.

How the visit works

We come to the apartment, measure every wall and photograph the staircase and the doorways too. 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 plan the delivery route through the building in advance, including which doors come off.

Working in VillerayLimakdéco · twenty minutes away

Area: Villeray, in the Villeray, Saint-Michel et Parc-Extension borough
Streets: Jarry, Villeray, Jean-Talon, De Castelnau, Saint-Denis, Christophe-Colomb, Faillon, Gounod
Postal codes: H2R, H2E, H2P
From the shop: About 20 minutes from 4130 Boul. Thimens
Route: Highway 40 east, then Christophe-Colomb or Saint-Denis south
Housing: Duplex and triplex apartments from 1910 to 1955, nine foot ceilings, narrow kitchens
Typical scope: Full height run on the blind wall, integrated fridge, drawers replacing doors
Access: Exterior stairs, narrow doorways, everything carried up by hand
Nearby work: White shaker kitchen, Bois-Franc
Measure: On site, free, and we measure the stairs 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: Parking occupation arranged 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 in Villeray

Custom kitchen cabinetsPlex kitchen rebuildsCabinets to the ceilingCounter depth fridge housingIntegrated appliancesDrawers instead of doorsNarrow galley planningOpen shelving in place of uppersLight quartz countersFull height backsplashCabinet refacingBathroom vanitiesRear balcony storageLaundry closet cabinetry

Want a price for your kitchen in Villeray?
The visit is free and so is the written quote. Send a photograph of the staircase along with the room; it changes what we can bring up in one piece.

What we do here

Every service, in Villeray

The same eight services we run everywhere else, delivered from a workshop twenty minutes away. In Villeray most projects are a full rebuild inside the original footprint.

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

Close view of a slim brass bar pull mounted on a matte charcoal drawer front, by Limakdeco — A slim pull rather than a knob. In a corridor kitchen the handle is the thing you catch a hip on, so the profile matters more here than it does in a room with space to walk around.

Wide view of a bathroom with a dark wood wall mounted vanity, a round mirror and a large format tiled floor, by Limakdeco — A wall hung vanity in a small bathroom. Plex bathrooms are usually the second phase, and hanging the unit is the one move that reliably makes the room feel bigger.

Questions from Villeray

What people in Villeray ask us first

Can you get a kitchen up an exterior staircase?

Yes, and we plan for it rather than discovering it. At the measure we photograph the stairs, the landing, the turn and the doorways, and we size the boxes so everything goes up in one piece where possible and in two where it is not. Doors come off hinges, banisters get protected, and nothing is dragged across a floor you are keeping.

Do you work in Villeray 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. In a plex that matters, because the person who measured the staircase is the person who has to carry the tall pantry up it.

Our kitchen is nine feet wide. Is a custom kitchen worth it?

That is exactly where custom earns its price. A stock cabinet comes in three inch increments and a nine foot room wastes several inches to fillers. Built to measure, those inches become a pull out spice unit or a broom cupboard. In a large kitchen custom is a preference. In a Villeray kitchen it is usually the difference between a room that works and one that does not.

How much does a kitchen cost in Villeray?

Less than the same quality of kitchen in a large house, simply because there is less of it, but the price follows the same things: linear feet, materials, the number of drawers, integrated appliances and the counter. Small kitchens have a higher cost per foot because the fitting work does not shrink with the room. We measure, we draw, and we hand you a written price. Both steps are free.

Can the wall between the kitchen and the dining room come out?

Often, and in a long plex apartment it changes the light in every room behind it. We look at it at the measure and can draw both versions. Confirming that a wall is not carrying load is a job for a general contractor or an engineer, and in a divided co-ownership it also goes to the syndicate, so we tell you who you need before you spend anything.

Do we need a permit from the borough?

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

Should we keep the original woodwork?

Usually yes, and we design around it rather than through it. Where a cornice, a door frame or a strip floor is original and sound, it is worth more to the apartment than any new finish we could put next to it. We can also strip and spray existing doors elsewhere in the flat so the whole place reads as one job.

Which nearby areas do you cover?

the Plateau is ten minutes south, Saint-Laurent is where the shop is, 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 in Villeray and next door in Petite-Patrie, Little Italy, Parc-Extension and Ahuntsic, as well as plex kitchen rebuilds, bathroom vanities and quartz countertops throughout Montréal and Laval. See every area we serve →