Custom kitchen cabinetry with integrated detailing

Custom Cabinets · Vancouver, British Columbia

Custom Cabinets in Vancouver.

Custom cabinet boxes for Vancouver kitchens, laneway houses, and entry storage, built from moisture-stable panel stock instead of the standard particleboard that swells where wet gear comes in off the lane or the trail.

In short

A laneway house kitchen in Vancouver runs twelve feet wide at most, so every cabinet box in it has to earn its footprint, and the entry off a rain-soaked lane sees more incidental moisture than a kitchen tucked deeper into a full-sized lot. Crateworks specs moisture-stable cores for that entry condition, factory-direct.

Built for Vancouver’s climate

Vancouver's wet season runs long enough that any cabinet near an entry sequence, a front door, a laneway door, or the mudroom off a North Shore hiking trailhead, takes on more ambient moisture than the kitchen sees over the same stretch. A standard composite core absorbs that and swells at the seams. A moisture-stable core resists it, and panel stock sourced to TSCA Title VI formaldehyde standards keeps emissions low in a laneway house or infill unit that is often sealed tighter than the main home it sits behind.

Climate zone
NBC Zone 4 (marine, wet)
Best time to spec
March to September
What we plan for
persistent rain, moisture, and mildew

Why it suits Vancouver

A big-box supplier sells the same box construction whether it is going into a Shaughnessy kitchen or a 400 square foot laneway suite, and land values this high mean every cabinet has to justify its footprint either way. Factory-direct sourcing lets the core material change with the entry condition and the box dimensions change with the square footage, without a custom-shop markup on either. Submit the room and its location through /brief.

Container-direct delivery into Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

How it ships to Vancouver: Freight lands right at the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port, in the metro itself.
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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 Vancouver. One order, one point of contact.

One source for the whole project

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Common questions

The construction can be identical, but the dimensions usually aren't, laneway kitchens run narrower and the boxes are specced to that footprint rather than a standard run.
Yes, panel stock is sourced to TSCA Title VI emission standards.
A door onto the lane or a trailhead mudroom takes on more incidental wet-gear moisture than a kitchen further from an entry point, and the core material should match that exposure.
Layout, box dimensions, and interior fittings are part of the spec. Submit the room through /brief and the quote is built to that layout.

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Spec custom cabinets for Vancouver.

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

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