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Custom Cabinets · Ottawa, Ontario

Custom Cabinets in Ottawa.

Custom cabinets for Ottawa kitchens and baths, built on a box that holds its lines through a humid July and a dry January alike, not just the one season a showroom sample was tested in.

In short

Ottawa kitchens swing from a genuinely humid summer to a bone-dry heated winter in the same twelve months, a wider range than most Canadian cities, and a cabinet box built for only one half of that swing opens joints in the other. Crateworks specs a stable substrate for both directions, factory-direct at close to a stock-kitchen price.

Built for Ottawa’s climate

Wood moves with humidity, and Ottawa asks more of that movement than most Canadian capitals: real summer humidity followed by a heating season that can drop indoor air into single-digit relative humidity for months. A box built to survive only the dry half swells and sticks in July, and one built for the humid half shrinks and gaps in January. The fix is a substrate rated for the whole swing, not one climate assumption, on panels that meet US EPA TSCA Title VI formaldehyde limits, worth specifying in a Westboro or Glebe kitchen renovation that stays sealed and heated most of the year.

Climate zone
NBC Zone 6 (cold)
Best time to spec
April to June
What we plan for
deep winter cold, heavy snow, freeze-thaw, and humid summers

Why it suits Ottawa

A box built around a single-season assumption is the wrong starting point for this market, and no finish coat fixes a substrate that was never rated for both directions. Going factory-direct puts the right substrate, soft-close hardware, and an exact layout, heritage kitchen or new Kanata build, on a budget a local stock kitchen would charge for a lesser box. Send the drawings and the schedule comes back as one delivered quote.

Container-direct delivery into the National Capital Region.

How it ships to Ottawa: Freight comes in through the Port of Montreal on the St. Lawrence, then a short inland leg west to the capital region.
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How it works

  1. 01

    Send your scope

    Drawings, a materials list, or a rough idea. No account, no obligation. Just tell us what the project needs.

  2. 02

    We source & spec

    We match products to your climate and local code, then price them factory-direct from vetted suppliers, not off a distributor's shelf.

  3. 03

    One delivered quote

    The whole schedule comes back as a single coordinated quote, delivered to Ottawa. One order, one point of contact.


One source for the whole project

Building the whole kitchen in Ottawa?


Common questions

Not with the right substrate. We spec boxes to hold dimension through both a humid summer and a dry heating season, rather than a build rated for only one of those extremes.
They meet US EPA TSCA Title VI limits, worth having in a sealed, heated Ottawa kitchen where that air gets breathed all winter.
Send the room drawings and we build to them end to end, door style, finish, box configuration, hardware. There is no fixed catalog to force an older layout into.
Usually enough to move from a stock box to a fully custom one. Send your layout and we will put the delivered Ottawa number next to your local quote.

Nearby: Montreal · Toronto · Winnipeg

Spec custom cabinets for Ottawa.

Send drawings or a rough scope. We quote the Ottawa delivered price, all-in.