Rooted In Cottage Country.
Custom kitchens, millwork and finish carpentry for cottages and homes across Muskoka, Parry Sound and Georgian Bay.
The shop
Built with precision.
We build cabinetry and finish carpentry to order. No catalogue, no stock boxes, nothing ordered in from a factory and touched up on site.
Everything is drawn for the room it goes into, built in the shop, and installed by the same people who built it. No shortcuts, no exceptions, no detail left to chance.
We take on a small number of projects a year. That is deliberate. It is the only way the precision stays where it should be.
More about the shop →What we build
Cabinets and carpentry, both from the same shop.
Cabinetry
- Kitchens
- Islands and pantries
- Vanities and bathrooms
- Built ins and bookcases
- Bars and wine storage
- Custom millwork
Finish carpentry
- Trim, casing and baseboard
- Doors and windows
- Stairs and railings
- Wood ceilings
- Feature walls and panelling
- Mantels and built in seating
Selected work
A look at recent projects.
Kitchens, millwork and finish carpentry from the last few seasons.
See the full gallery →For builders and designers
We are used to being the last trade on a job that cannot go wrong.
Drawings you can hand to a client
Shop drawings and elevations before anything is cut, so the millwork package is signed off rather than assumed.
A schedule that holds
We give a build window we can actually hit and we tell you early if anything moves. Cabinetry is usually the item everything else waits on.
Clean site, clean handover
Installed, adjusted and deficiency free before we leave. Your client should be walking into a finished room, not a punch list.
Planning a kitchen, a cottage build or a renovation?
Tell us what you are working on and roughly when. We will let you know what we can take on and what it looks like from here.
Work
Kitchens, millwork and finish carpentry.
A single gallery rather than a set of case studies. If something here is close to what you are planning, mention the image when you get in touch.
More photos available on request, including in progress shots and shop drawings.
Get in touch →About
Forty years on this shore, and a shop to go with it.
Our family has had a cottage up here for the last forty years. Long before there was a shop, there were the same lakes, the same drive up on a Friday night, and the same houses going up along the water.
Shoal is a small cabinet and carpentry shop working across Muskoka, Parry Sound and Georgian Bay. We build kitchens, millwork, built ins and finish carpentry for high end homes and cottages, most of them within an hour of where we grew up spending summers.
That matters more than it sounds. We know which finishes survive a closed up cottage in February and which ones do not. We know the difference between a house that gets lived in year round and one that gets opened up in May. And we know most of the trades on these jobs already, which is usually why the install goes quietly.
The name is a Georgian Bay word. A shoal is the shallow ridge just under the surface, the thing every local knows exactly where to find. It seemed about right for a shop built on knowing the water.
How we work
Drawn for the room, built in the shop, installed by the people who built it.
Most projects start with a conversation and a set of plans, or a walk through the space if it already exists. From there we draw the millwork, agree on materials and finishes, and give you a build window.
Everything is built at our shop rather than assembled on site, so the fit and the finish are controlled. Installation is done by our own crew. If something needs adjusting a season later, we come back.
Talk about a project →Contact
Tell us what you are planning.
- Phone
- 705 555 0000
- dave@shoal.ca
- Service area
- Muskoka, Parry Sound and Georgian Bay. Further afield for the right project.
- Shop
- By appointment.
Address line one
Ontario, P0X 0X0 - @shoalcabinets