Cottage renovations

Cottage renovations, including the ones you reach by boat.

Cabinetry and finish carpentry for cottage renovations across Muskoka, Parry Sound and Georgian Bay. A great many of them on water access properties, which is work we know how to plan.

A renovation up here runs on logistics.

On a town job a forgotten box is a run to the supplier. On a water access cottage it is a lost day, a boat, and a weather window. So the planning has to be finished before the work starts rather than solved as it goes.

We draw the millwork package first, order once, stage it, and take it over in planned loads. Cabinetry and trim are dry fitted before they travel so what lands is ready to install rather than ready to be worked out.

Old cottages come with their own surprises. Walls that are out of square by inches rather than millimetres, floors that run downhill, log walls that move with the season. Scribed, built to the room work is the only thing that survives that.

Open great room with a timber stair, steel spindle railing and a loft above

What we take on

The finishing half of a cottage renovation.

Scope

Kitchen replacement and reconfiguration
Bathroom and vanity work
Bunk rooms and sleeping cabins
Wood ceilings and feature walls
Stairs, railings and lofts
Trim, doors and built in storage

How it runs

Millwork drawn and signed off first
Materials ordered once and staged
Planned barge and boat loads
Weather built into the schedule
Season based windows where needed
Deficiency free before we leave

Vaulted bedroom under exposed timber beams in a cottage country build

Media wall with a reclaimed wood surround, linear fireplace and grey cabinetry

Modern lakeside build in winter, glazed elevation under a deep overhang

Where we work

Pointe au Baril, Honey Harbour and Bala.

We take on cottage renovations around Pointe au Baril, Honey Harbour and Bala, and across the wider Muskoka, Parry Sound and Georgian Bay area.

Water access is normal work for us rather than an exception. We know what it costs to forget something on the mainland, which finishes survive a cottage closed up cold through February, and how to sequence a job around the days you actually get.

Cottage work books by season. If you are aiming at a particular opening weekend, the earlier we hear from you the better the odds.

Custom Cabinetry Custom Kitchens Finish Carpentry Built-Ins Custom Closets Custom Millwork

Planning a custom project?

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.