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Lyon Crescent Kitchen
Forest Hill, Toronto · 2024
A 320 sq ft kitchen re-imagined as a quiet entertaining space with Calacatta marble, walnut millwork and hand-blown pendants.
Design · Build · Renovate
Luxury Renovations Designed Around The Way You Live
Premium kitchen, bath, and full-home transformations guided by a single studio from first sketch to final styling.
16Years of practice
240+Completed projects
12Trades under one roof
16Years designing & building
94Net Promoter Score
12Trades under one roof
$420KAverage project value
Signature Work
Considered rooms.
Built to be lived in.
A small selection of recent projects — kitchens, baths and full-home renovations in the Greater Toronto Area. Each one shaped around a particular home and a particular way of living.
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Design · Build · Furnish
One studio.
Every trade.
We work as a single team from concept through styling — architects, interior designers, carpenters, project managers and stylists, all in-house.
Before & After
The room,
re-drawn.
A small sample of recent transformations. Drag the slider to compare.
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Forest Hill, Toronto
Forest Hill Kitchen
Custom Millwork
Cabinetry that quietly carries the room.
A small in-house millwork shop builds every cabinet we specify — walnut, rift oak or painted maple, hand-fit and hand-finished.
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Live specification
Walnut · Hand-rubbed oil
Finish
The workshop
- In-house shop
- Yes
- Lead time
- 10–14 weeks
- Hardware
- Blum & Salice
- Finish
- Hand-rubbed
Selected work
The Process
A guided, six-step journey from
first sketch to final styling.
Our design-build process is the reason projects feel calm. It is the same for every client — refined over sixteen years and 240+ renovations.
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Step 01Discovery
We meet in your home, study the architecture and listen to how you actually live. No two briefs are the same.
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Step 02Concept & Material
We sketch, model and present a considered material palette — stone, wood, metal, light — before a single wall comes down.
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Step 03Design Development
Drawings, joinery details, mechanical & electrical coordination. We resolve the boring parts so the finished room feels effortless.
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Step 04Trade Coordination
Carpenters, stone masons, painters, electricians — all on the same schedule under one project lead, all trusted trades.
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Step 05Build & Install
Weekly site walks, photo updates, and a clean jobsite. We protect the rest of your home as if it were our own.
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Step 06Styling & Reveal
Furniture, art, drapery and styling. We hand the keys back with a house that already feels lived in.
The keys are handed back. The home is yours.
Featured Project
Lyon Crescent
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Lyon Crescent — the kitchen after eight months of design and build.
Scope of work
- ·Full architectural design
- ·Custom walnut & rift oak cabinetry
- ·Calacatta Vagli marble
- ·Hand-blown pendant lighting
- ·Furniture curation & styling
Category
kitchen
Year
2024
Duration
9 months
Status
Completed
Materials & Details
Real materials.
Specified, sourced, built.
We design with a short, considered material library. These five families cover every room we build — and we know exactly where to source them.
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Calacatta Marble
Marble · Specified by studio
Book-matched slabs with a soft, veined character used for islands, hearths and bath cladding.
Finish
Marble
Roughness
0.18
Metalness
0.04
Room Mood
Choose a feeling. We will design the room around it.
Every renovation begins with a mood, not a mood board. Pick a starting palette and we will tailor the architecture, lighting and materials from there.
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1 / 4Drag the cards or click one. Every renovation starts with a feeling — we design the architecture, materials and lighting around it.
Client Words
What our clients
tell their friends.
“They made a full gut renovation feel calm. We always knew what was happening, what was next and why it mattered.”
N. Marlowe
Lyon Crescent · Forest Hill
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Project Management
Twelve trades. One project lead. Zero surprises.
You have a single point of contact from concept to styling. Behind them, a curated bench of full-time carpenters and trusted trade partners — all on the same schedule, all held to the same standard.
Years of practice
16
In-house carpenters
9
Trusted trade partners
12
Schedule adherence
97%
Repeat & referral work
78%
Warranty on workmanship
10 yrs
Pre-construction
Detailed scope, fixed schedule, itemised budget. You know what is happening and when.
Weekly site walks
A standing meeting with the project lead. Photos, notes, decisions — kept on a private client page.
Trade coordination
Carpenters, painters, masons, electricians, plumbers. One schedule, one lead, one point of contact.
The Wall
A small gallery,
curated on purpose.
Not every project, not every image. A short, considered wall of recent work that gives a sense of how the studio designs.
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From the Journal
Stories, materials,
and how we work.
Notes from the studio — material studies, renovation advice, and deep dives into completed projects.
Read the journalDesign
2026-05-127 min
The Art of the Kitchen Island
A kitchen island should do more than hold a sink. We share how we design islands as the quiet anchor of the home — for cooking, gathering, and lingering.
Materials
2026-04-286 min
Marble vs. Quartzite: Choosing the Right Stone
The marble-or-quartzite question comes up in every kitchen renovation. We lay out the trade-offs in beauty, durability, and maintenance.
Process
2026-04-108 min
Design-Build vs. General Contractor: What is the Difference?
Most homeowners do not realise there are two fundamentally different ways to renovate. We explain why the integrated model delivers better results.
Studio & Service Area
A working studio in the Annex.
Visit us at our design studio to see material samples, cabinetry prototypes and drawings from current projects. We work across the Greater Toronto Area and the Niagara Escarpment.
Floor plan
1120 Davenport Road, Toronto ON
Visits
By appointment
Hours
Mon — Fri
Trade
By request
Service area
We work across the Greater Toronto Area and the Niagara Escarpment. Most projects are within 60 minutes of our studio.
Central
- TorontoCentral
- Forest HillCentral
- RosedaleCentral
- YorkvilleCentral
- The AnnexCentral
West
- MississaugaWest
- OakvilleWest
North
- VaughanNorth
South
- Niagara-on-the-LakeSouth
Consultation
Tell us about the home you are imagining.
Book a 60-minute in-home or in-studio consultation. We will listen, walk the space, and follow up with a short note on what we would do next.