Custom Cabinets in St. Albert

Kitchens, closets and built-ins made for St. Albert homes, designed, built and installed by the same people.

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Two very different cabinetry jobs in one city

St. Albert produces two kinds of cabinetry work and they are not the same job. The established neighbourhoods, Braeside, Grandin, Forest Lawn and the streets running down to the Sturgeon, are full of houses built between the seventies and the nineties that are structurally excellent and still carrying their original kitchens. Those rooms were laid out for a different way of cooking: soffits above the uppers, a shallow pantry, and a great deal of dead corner.

The newer north end is the opposite problem. In Erin Ridge and Jensen Lakes the house is only a few years old and the room is fine. What is not fine is builder-grade cabinetry, chosen to hit a price on a spec sheet rather than to last twenty years in a family kitchen.

Both are custom work for different reasons. In the older house the value is that the cabinet gets cut for the wall in front of it. In the newer one the value is the carcass, the hardware and the finish, without moving a single service.

What an older St. Albert house does to a drawing

What catches people out in an established home is never the cabinetry, it is what sits behind it. Soffits carrying ductwork that cannot move. A bulkhead the drawing did not know about. A floor that has fallen half an inch over the length of a run. Walls that read square on the plan and are three degrees out in the room.

None of that appears in a design. It appears on install day, and it is why we measure the room as it stands before anything is cut, rather than building to the drawing and scribing the difference on site. Stock cabinetry in a house like this means filler panels, and filler panels are what people notice five years later.

If you are working through what the whole house needs rather than one room, the residential cabinetry page covers the full scope, and built-ins and closets deals with the storage that usually follows a kitchen.

How the work runs

Everything is manufactured locally rather than imported, which matters more on a renovation than people expect. When the room and the drawing disagree, the change goes to the machine here and comes back in days. When cabinetry is ordered from overseas, that same change waits for a container.

Delivery and installation are done by our own crew and sit inside the quoted price rather than being added afterwards. Most St. Albert kitchens run six to ten weeks from approved drawings, with the variation sitting in the finish schedule and in how quickly selections are signed off. You can see finished work in the project gallery or read one job end to end in the dressing room case study.

Send the room measurements, a photograph of the space as it stands, and some sense of the finish you have in mind. We will come back with a real range before asking you for anything else.