The second question everyone asks, right after cost, is time. The honest answer has two parts: the part we control, which is fast, and the part you control, which takes as long as your decisions do. Here is the whole timeline, step by step, so you can plan around it.
This is a conversation, not a commitment. We talk through your space, how you cook, what is not working now, and what the project should cost before you fall in love with anything. It takes about an hour. If you arrive with photos and rough measurements, it is a productive hour.
This is the step that varies most, because it runs at the speed of your decisions. You work with our designers on layout, door styles, finishes, and storage, and you see the kitchen in realistic 3D renderings before anything is ordered. Some clients lock a design in a week. Others take a month to live with the renders and revise. Both are fine. The design step is the cheapest place to change your mind, and the most expensive place to rush.
Before manufacturing starts, we confirm the space against the design. Exact measurements are what make made-to-order cabinetry fit like it was built for the room, because it was. This step is short, and it is the reason there are no surprises on install day.
Once the design is confirmed and measured, our standard is delivery in about 4 weeks, with cabinets arriving pre-assembled. Four weeks is not a teaser number. It is how the production process is built to run, and it is one of the real advantages of combining European engineering with Canadian manufacturing: the cabinets are not crossing an ocean in a container before they cross your doorstep.
Because the cabinets arrive pre-assembled and the measurements were confirmed up front, installation is measured in days, not weeks. Our team or your own contractor sets the boxes, fits the fronts, and dials in the alignment. A typical install is the shortest chapter of the whole project.
A straight cabinet replacement runs close to the timeline above. Three things stretch it, and all three are layout decisions rather than cabinetry: moving plumbing or electrical, opening or removing walls, and long-lead items elsewhere in the renovation, most often appliances and counters. Counters in particular template after the cabinets are in, so a slab on backorder adds its wait at the end. None of this is a problem if it is planned, which is why the timeline conversation happens in step one, not after demolition.
For a kitchen that keeps its layout: roughly a week or two of design decisions, a short measurement visit, about 4 weeks of manufacturing, and a few days of install. For a kitchen that reworks the room, add the trades and permits that any renovation carries, whoever builds your cabinets. Either way, you will know your dates before anything is ordered, and you will not be living without a kitchen while the cabinets are built, because the old kitchen comes out when the new one is ready to go in.
If you are planning backward from a date, a holiday, a baby, a listing, tell us in the consultation and we will tell you honestly whether the math works. That is a better conversation to have in the showroom than in November.