Custom Garage Cabinets & Storage in Toronto

It follows the length of the run and what goes into it — a back wall with two tall cabinets and a bench is a different project from three walls with drawers, slatwall and overhead racks. Cost is driven by linear feet of cabinetry, the number of drawers, the worktop and the finish. Your designer prices it at the free in-home visit, itemised, with no travel fee anywhere in the GTA.

That is the right question, because cabinetry built for a kitchen will not. An unheated garage here swings from summer humidity to well below freezing, and every car brings salt off the road. The finishes we specify are chosen for exactly that: durable surfaces that wipe clean and withstand the temperature extremes and the humidity. Cabinets sit on adjustable levelling legs so the carcass is off a wet floor, and the run is fixed to the wall rather than standing on the slab.

Most garages are installed in a day. A long run across two or three walls, or one with a worktop, slatwall and overhead racks together, can run into a second. You will need the garage empty enough to work in and the cars out; your installer will tell you what to clear when the date is booked.

The walls we are working on need to be clear, and the floor in front of them clear enough to work. You do not need to empty the whole garage. In practice the design visit is a good moment to decide what is not going back in — in most garages, a fair amount does not need to.

Yes, and it is much of why a garage is measured on site rather than ordered by the foot. The door track, the opener motor and its rail, the springs, the water shut-off, the electrical panel, the hose bib and the step into the house all sit exactly where cabinets would otherwise go. That is the difference between a system that fits and a stock cabinet pushed six inches off the wall.

Slatwall is panelling with a continuous horizontal track cut into it, so hooks, baskets, brackets and shelves clip in anywhere along the wall and move later without drilling. You need it for anything long, thin or hanging — bikes, rakes, hoses, extension cords, hockey sticks, ladders. Most garages want both: closed cabinets for what needs protecting from salt and dust, slatwall for what is easier to hang.

They fasten into the ceiling joists, not into drywall, and sit clear of the opener motor and the door track so nothing fouls the door. They are for seasonal weight you lift down deliberately — holiday bins, camping gear, luggage, a roof box. Your designer will tell you what your ceiling will take: a laneway garage with exposed rafters and a finished attached garage are not the same problem.

Yes, and it is the part most people are happiest with afterwards. Base cabinets carry a solid worktop — butcher-block usually, laminate where wiping down matters more — with doors and drawers underneath and upper cabinets above. The height is set at the design visit rather than to a standard, because a bench at the wrong height is a bench you stop using.

Over fifty, in shaker or flat-slab door profiles. White and cream, the greys, black, navy and the woodgrains are ordered most. Handles are specified alongside the doors in brushed and matte finishes. Your designer brings samples, worth doing in a garage: a colour that reads one way in a showroom reads another under a fluorescent strip.

Yes, and a good proportion of garages in older parts of Toronto are exactly that — detached, at the back of the lot, off a laneway, unheated and barely insulated. It changes the specification rather than the design: the finish matters more, closed storage matters more than open, and where walls are unfinished the run is set out to the studs.

That is the real measure of a garage project. Full-height cabinets take the tall awkward things, overhead racks take the seasonal bins, slatwall takes what hangs, and the bench gives you the surface the garage never had. What is left is the floor. Your designer will tell you at the visit whether your garage can get there, and will say so if it cannot.

Yes — Toronto, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, Mississauga, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham, Brampton, Oakville, Burlington, Ajax, Pickering, Whitby and Oshawa, with no travel fee anywhere in that area. The design visit, the measurement and the 3D drawing are free wherever you are in it.

It carries the same warranty as everything else we build: seven years on structure, installation, finishes and hardware. Written down rather than implied, and it applies to a garage run exactly as it does to a bedroom closet.

Around a fridge, a freezer, a utility sink or a furnace, yes — your designer measures the clearances each needs, including door swing and the airflow a fridge wants behind it. Car lifts we do not supply, but if one is there or planned, say so at the visit and the run will be laid out to keep its footprint and overhead clearance free.