We design, build, and install custom kitchens in New Westminster from our Kitsilano showroom, and most of those projects land in the $30,000 to $50,000 planning range. A smaller condo kitchen at the Quay usually starts around $18,000 to $28,000, and a large kitchen in a Queen's Park house with high-end finishes and appliances can run past $100,000. Those are planning ranges, not quotes. The real number depends on the house, and New Westminster has three very different kinds of house.
Queen's Park is a heritage conservation area, and the Victorian, Edwardian, and Craftsman houses there are the reason. Inside them, the kitchen is usually at the back, often in what was once a service space or an enclosed porch, and the walls, floors, and ceilings have had a century to settle. Walls run out of square. Floors slope toward the yard. Ceilings sit at nine or ten feet, or drop under a stair.
Stock cabinets come in fixed widths and heights, so in a house like this they are shimmed, filled, and cut down until they fit badly. Made-to-order cabinetry is measured to the wall as it is. Each run is built to the true width, the toe kicks are scribed to the floor, and the uppers are built to the ceiling height you actually have, which is how you get storage to the ceiling in a ten-foot room instead of a dust shelf. The heritage rules in Queen's Park are focused on the outside of the house, so the kitchen inside is yours to plan. Confirm permits with the city for anything structural or electrical.
Sapperton has the same older housing stock on the slope above East Columbia Street, and a lot of newer townhomes and condos closer to the river and the hospital. The older homes need the same made-to-order sizing as Queen's Park. The newer ones usually have a builder kitchen that was fine for the first owner and is now the thing everyone wants to replace: particleboard boxes, doors that have chipped, a layout that ignores how the family cooks.
In a newer Sapperton townhome, the footprint is fixed but the layout is not. A kitchen that keeps the plumbing and electrical where they are and rebuilds the cabinetry around them sits comfortably in the medium range, and the lead time is our standard of about four weeks from approved drawings.
The condos along the Fraser at Quayside and around the Quay have galley and L-shaped kitchens with a fixed footprint and a strata council. Strata rules set work hours, require elevator bookings, and often ask for a renovation agreement before anything starts. Read those rules before you plan the schedule, not after.
Our cabinets arrive pre-assembled, which means fewer trips through the elevator and less time with the hallway protected. A galley condo kitchen is usually a small kitchen by our sizing, so the $18,000 to $28,000 range is the starting point, and it climbs if you go to a premium finish or a full-height pantry wall. Integrated handles and full-height uppers do a lot in a narrow space, and a panel-ready fridge lets the kitchen read as one wall.
Size, finish, and interior organization move the number more than the neighbourhood does. A small kitchen with a standard finish and builder appliances runs about $18,000 to $28,000. A medium kitchen with a premium finish and mid-range appliances runs $30,000 to $50,000, and that is where most of our projects land. A large kitchen with high-end finishes and appliances runs past $100,000. Cabinetry alone starts at $15,000. If you are keeping your boxes and want new doors or a refinish, that is quoted per project after we look at the existing cabinets, and it costs a fraction of a new kitchen.
The first step is a free consultation, at the showroom or over a call. Then we measure at your home, which in a Queen's Park house means measuring every wall separately and checking the floor for level. You get a full design with 3D renderings before anything is built. Build and delivery run on our standard lead time of about four weeks. Installation is by our team or your own contractor. We do not do the electrical, plumbing, or demolition ourselves. Those are licensed trades, and we coordinate the cabinetry around their work so the outlets land where the drawers are not.
Run your kitchen through the Vancouver Kitchen Cost Calculator for a planning range, and read how long a custom kitchen takes if you are working around a strata schedule or a move-in date. When you are ready, book a free consultation and we will come out to New Westminster to measure.