Service · Montréal, Laval and the West Island

Kitchen design and 3D plans in Montréal, drawn in AutoCAD

A measured plan of your room, an elevation of every run, and a 3D view where it settles an argument. Approved on paper before a single sheet is cut.

What you get

AutoCAD elevation of the refrigerator wall for a Pointe-Claire custom kitchen, with dimensions for the fridge panel, microwave, wall oven and drawer banks — The fridge wall in Pointe-Claire, drawn before anything was cut. Ten feet six inches of cabinetry, with every opening dimensioned to the appliance that goes in it.

AutoCAD perspective drawing of the one wall kitchen with island for the Bois-Franc project, with dimensions — A perspective of the same drawing set. It answers the question people actually have at that stage, which is not a dimension but whether the room will feel open.

The service

Decided on paper, not on site

Every expensive mistake in a kitchen is a decision that was made on installation day. A drawer that cannot open because the fridge door swings across it. A wall oven at a height that only suits one person in the house. A run that stops four inches short of a bulkhead nobody measured. Drawings exist to move all of those decisions to a point where changing them costs nothing.

Ours are made in AutoCAD, not in a catalogue configurator. A measured plan of the room comes first, with the plumbing, the gas, the electrical and the window reveals on it. Then an elevation of every run, at scale, with the real appliance openings taken from the specification sheets rather than the showroom label. Then a 3D view where the layout is unusual or where two options need to be compared. You read them, you mark them up, and the written price is fixed against the version you approve.

The drawings also decide things people do not expect. Where the seam in the countertop will fall. Whether an island of that length can carry seating on the end and still leave a walkway. Whether a farmhouse sink forces the base cabinet below it to be built differently, which it does, and which is far cheaper to know before the cabinetry is cut. This is the cheapest hour in the whole project.

What the drawing set contains

A measured plan of the room with services and clearances marked.
An elevation of every run, dimensioned, with cabinet codes.
Appliance openings taken from the manufacturer specifications.
A 3D view or a perspective where it helps the decision.
The hardware and finish schedule: hinges, runners, pulls, lighting, stone.

What a 3D view is for, and what it is not

A 3D view is there to settle proportion: how tall the uppers read, whether the island crowds the walkway, how the run looks with the fridge panelled instead of exposed. It is not a colour proof. Screens flatter finishes, and a rendered gloss white is never the gloss white that arrives on a door. So we use the view for the shape of the room and physical samples for everything else, which is why the showroom on Boulevard Thimens has doors and stone on the floor rather than a screen on the wall.

What the design stage includesLimakdéco · drawn in AutoCAD

Site measure: Free, on site, every wall, reveal and service recorded
Plan: A measured plan of the room, with clearances
Elevations: One per run, at scale, fully dimensioned
3D views: Where the layout is unusual or two options are being compared
Software: AutoCAD, not a catalogue configurator
Appliances: Openings from the manufacturer sheets, verified on site later
Schedule: Hinges, runners, pulls, lighting, stone and finishes listed
Revisions: Marked up and reissued until you approve a version
Price: Written and itemised against the approved drawings
Countertop: Seam and sink positions planned at this stage
Lighting: Light rail, in cabinet and under cabinet positions decided
Permits: We tell you which parts of the work need one
Turnaround: Usually within the week of the measure
Format: Printed at the meeting, and PDF by email
Then: Fabrication and installation by the same company
Area: Montréal, Laval, the West Island and the South Shore

What gets decided on paper

Layout optionsWall removal feasibilityIsland size and seatingWalkway clearancesCabinets to the ceilingBulkhead solutionsAppliance placementPanelled fridge runsWall oven heightsDrawer versus doorPantry and tall unitsCountertop seamsSink type and positionBacksplash heightHardware scheduleLighting positionsFinish combinations

Have a room and no idea what it can take?
Book the measure. You will get a plan, elevations and a written price for the layout we recommend, and usually a second option beside it so there is something to compare.

Matte white custom kitchen with a double waterfall quartz island and sculptural pendants in a new Laval construction — The Laval kitchen as built. The island length, the overhang and the pendant spacing were all settled on the elevation before the slab was ordered.

White shaker kitchen with a dark wood island, pendant lights and a window seat, by Limakdeco — A window seat next to a run of cabinetry is a drawing problem: the bench height, the trim and the cabinet end all have to agree with each other.

Where we work

Kitchen design near you

The measure happens in your kitchen, which means the drawings start from your walls rather than from a template. These are the twelve areas we draw for most often.

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 Plateau-Mont-RoyalThird floor walk-ups off Mont-Royal, carried up by hand and fitted to the millimetre.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

Drawn, then built

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

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Questions about design

What people ask before the drawings start

Do you charge for kitchen design?

The site measure and the written price are free, and the drawings we need in order to quote come with them. If what you want is a full drawing package to take away and use elsewhere, that is a different piece of work and we will quote it separately at the visit. Nobody is asked to pay for a drawing before they know what it is.

What software do you use?

AutoCAD, drawn by hand rather than assembled from a catalogue of standard boxes. That is the reason a run can be dimensioned to nine feet four and a half inches instead of rounded to the nearest three inch step, and the reason a bulkhead or a sloped ceiling can appear on the elevation at its real height.

Will I get a 3D view?

Where it helps the decision, yes. On a straightforward one wall kitchen the elevation tells you everything the render would. On an open plan room, a peninsula, or a case where two layouts are being compared, a 3D view is worth the time because proportion is hard to read from a flat drawing.

How long does it take to get drawings?

Usually within the week of the measure. Revisions are quick, because the model is already built: moving an oven up two inches or turning a door bank into drawers is a change to the same drawing rather than a new one. What takes time is the decisions, and those are yours.

Can you work with my architect or designer?

Often, and it usually goes well. We take their plan as the intent and produce the cabinetry drawings from our own measure, because the millimetres that matter to a maker are not always on an architectural drawing. Where there is a conflict between what is drawn and what the room actually is, we raise it in writing rather than build the drawing.

Do the drawings work for a permit application?

Cabinetry itself is interior finishing work and normally needs no permit. Moving a load bearing wall, altering an opening, or relocating plumbing does, and that is a matter for a general contractor or an engineer. Our drawings show the cabinetry and the services as found, which is useful supporting material, but they are not structural drawings and we do not present them as such.

Can you tell me whether the wall can come out?

We can tell you what it looks like at the measure, and we can draw both versions so you can see the gain. Confirming that a wall is not load bearing is a job for someone whose signature carries that responsibility. In our Pointe-Claire project the wall did come out, and the island grew with one end anchored where it had stood.

Which areas do you cover?

We measure and draw across the island, in Laval, on the South Shore and along the North Shore, from the workshop at 4130 Boulevard Thimens in Saint-Laurent. The service areas page lists every one.

Limakdéco measures, draws and builds in Pointe-Claire, Hampstead, Beaconsfield, Villeray, Pierrefonds, Ville-Marie, Côte-Saint-Luc, the Plateau, Westmount, Kirkland, Saint-Laurent and Dollard-des-Ormeaux, with custom cabinets, refacing, vanities and stone countertops across Montréal and Laval. See every area we serve →

The rest of the workshop

Other things we make and fit

Drawings are the first step of most of these services, and the reason the last step goes quietly.

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 Commercial millworkReception desks, counters and fitted storage for commercial rooms.Service Bathroom vanitiesFloating and floor standing vanities, mirrors and storage towers.Service Everything we makeThe full list of services, all out of the same workshop in Saint-Laurent.All services

Before the drawings start

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

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

4130 Boul. Thimens, Saint-Laurent

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Bring your dimensions to Boulevard 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

If you have the measurements of the room, we can talk through options at the showroom before booking a site visit. Doors, hinges and stone are all on the floor to look at while we do.

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