Rooms we built.

Two commercial fit-outs documented end to end, comparisons you can drag through, and a gallery sorted by the trade that carried it.

Barrel-vaulted cafe dining room with arched niches and a cove-lit oak wainscot

Commercial fit-out · Greater Toronto Area

The Cafe

A complete cafe build-out: barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling, a curved white oak service counter under a single marble slab, reeded wainscot on a continuous cove light, and herringbone oak throughout.

Arched, backlit display niche with product shelving in a salon

Commercial fit-out · Greater Toronto Area

The Salon

A beauty studio built around one move: a full-height arched display niche, backlit, with the product wall doing the lighting for the room.

Before, during, finished

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A finished kitchen with shaker cabinetry, an island, and plank flooring running through to the dining room — Wall out, kitchen inFull home renovation

A kitchen stripped back to studs during demolition with the beam being framed in — Wall out, kitchen inFull home renovation

A load-bearing wall between the kitchen and dining room comes out, which means beam and posts before anything else.

The finished bathroom with a frameless glass shower and a floating vanity — Three-piece to a glass wet roomBathrooms and wet rooms

A dated bathroom before renovation with an oak vanity and a tub alcove — Three-piece to a glass wet roomBathrooms and wet rooms

Same footprint, rebuilt: the tub alcove becomes a glass shower and the vanity is replaced with a floating unit.

The finished basement rec room with flat walls and engineered plank flooring — Open joists to a finished rec roomFull home renovation

An unfinished basement with exposed joists and a bare concrete floor — Open joists to a finished rec roomFull home renovation

An unfinished basement with exposed joists becomes a finished room with the ceiling left open so the height stays.

The finished open-riser white oak staircase with a frameless glass balustrade — A stair opening cut into a finished floorStairs and railings

The stair opening cut and braced through a finished herringbone floor during construction — A stair opening cut into a finished floorStairs and railings

The hole comes first, and it is the part that has to be right. The opening was framed to the finished dimension and trimmed in the same board as the floor, so the herringbone runs up to the stringer without a patch. The balustrade hangs off structure rather than off the treads.

The finished Calacatta slab shower with unlacquered brass fixtures behind frameless glass — Slab going up in a Calacatta wet roomBathrooms and wet rooms

Slab shower walls part-installed with the room masked off mid-build — Slab going up in a Calacatta wet roomBathrooms and wet rooms

Large-format slab leaves nowhere to hide, so the walls are floated flat and the drain set dead level before a single sheet goes up. The vein is laid out to carry around the corner, and the glass lands on a joint rather than across one.

The finished chevron oak running from a panelled hallway into the kitchen — Chevron oak, laid board by boardHerringbone and chevron flooring

Herringbone oak flooring part-laid across a room during installation — Chevron oak, laid board by boardHerringbone and chevron flooring

The centreline is snapped off the architecture rather than the wall, which is why the points land where the eye expects them and the pattern runs straight through the doorway instead of stepping.

Residential work, by trade

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