Millwork for rooms the public walks into
Commercial millwork is the same craft as a kitchen and a different specification. A reception desk is touched by hundreds of hands a week, wiped with whatever is under the sink, and leaned on by people who are not being careful. A clinic counter has to hide equipment, carry cable and still take a mop against its base. So the joinery is drawn the same way and built heavier, with harder surfaces and edges that survive a trolley.
We make reception desks and transaction counters, fitted storage and file walls, staff kitchenettes, display and retail fixtures, wall panelling, and the built in benches and banquettes that make a waiting area feel finished rather than furnished. The bodies are usually melamine or plywood, the visible faces are laminate, thermofoil or sprayed MDF, and the working tops are laminate, quartz or Dekton depending on what lands on them.
The difference that matters most is not the material, it is the building. A commercial fit out happens inside a space that has a landlord, a schedule, a service elevator with rules, and often tenants who are still open. We measure once the walls are up rather than from the architect's plan, we deliver in the window the building gives us, and we install in the evening or over a weekend when the space cannot close. That planning is most of what separates a smooth commercial job from a residential one.
What we build
- Reception desks and transaction counters, with cable management and equipment bays.
- Fitted storage, file walls, stock rooms and back of house cabinetry.
- Staff kitchenettes and coffee stations, with plumbing coordinated.
- Retail display, shelving and cash wraps.
- Wall panelling, feature walls, built in benches and banquettes.
- Clinic, salon and studio casework with wipeable surfaces.
Working in a building that stays open
Most of the jobs we are asked about cannot shut for a week. So the sequence is planned backwards from the opening: shop drawings approved early, everything fabricated and pre assembled in Saint-Laurent, delivered in one booked elevator window, and installed in the quiet hours. Where a counter has to be built in place because it will not fit through the door, we build it in sections designed to be joined on site with a concealed joint rather than a caulked one. None of that is glamorous, and all of it is the reason the space opens on time.
