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TremaineKitchen & Bath · Milton 905 555 0188

The kitchen you keep redrawing on the back of envelopes.

We design and build kitchens and bathrooms in Milton. Twelve projects a year, one designer, one site lead, and a price we publish before you ask for it.

BASE RUN 3050 TALL PANTRY ISLAND 2400 × 1100 QUARTZ 30MM
The Halloran kitchen · Old Milton Quartz, white oak, unlacquered brass $94,800 · 9 weeks · handed over June 2026

What a Milton kitchen costs, before you call us

Three shapes most projects take. Every figure includes design, cabinetry, stone, installation, permits where needed, and HST. Appliances are yours to choose and buy.

Refit

$38 to 52kTYPICAL: $44,000

  • Existing layout kept, everything else new
  • Custom doors on new boxes
  • Quartz counters and full-height splash
  • New sink, tap, lighting, hardware
  • Flooring left in place

5 to 6 weeks on site

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Redesign

Most chosen

$62 to 95kTYPICAL: $78,000

  • New layout, island, pantry, seating rethought
  • Non-structural walls opened where sensible
  • Full custom cabinetry to the ceiling
  • Plumbing and electrical relocated
  • New flooring through the kitchen and hall
  • 3D drawings before a single cabinet is ordered

8 to 11 weeks on site

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Main floor

$110 to 180kTYPICAL: $138,000

  • Kitchen, dining and living treated as one room
  • Structural beam where a wall comes out
  • Powder room refit included
  • Engineering, permits and inspections managed
  • Millwork beyond the kitchen, banquette, built-ins

14 to 20 weeks on site

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The Halloran kitchen

A 1974 side-split in Old Milton with a kitchen that had been "temporarily" renovated in 1998.

BEFORE, 1998 AFTER, 2026 ISLAND BASE RUN
Investment
$94,800
On site
9 weeks
Over original quote
$2,400
Handed over
June 2026

Taking out the wall we said we wouldn't

The Hallorans came to us wanting a refit, same footprint, better everything. We drew it that way twice. Both times the room stayed dark, because the original kitchen was a galley with a load-bearing wall between it and the dining room, and no amount of cabinetry fixes a room with one window.

So we costed the wall. An LVL beam, a temporary post, an engineer's stamp and a Halton permit came to $11,200, about twelve percent on top of the refit. We showed them both drawings side by side and told them plainly that the refit was the worse project.

“They talked us out of the cheaper job and were right. I've never had a contractor argue for spending more and mean it.”

The finished room is one space: white oak on the perimeter, a painted island in a green dark enough to read as black at night, unlacquered brass that will patina and is supposed to. Quartz rather than marble, because two teenagers.

We went $2,400 over the quote, a subfloor levelling nobody could have seen until the old vinyl came up. It appeared on the invoice with the levelling compound receipt stapled to it.

What we build with, and why

Named, so you can price them yourself. We have no exclusive supplier deals and no markup on materials, you see the invoices.

White oak, rift-sawn

For door fronts and open shelving. Rift cut costs about 20% more than plain and stays flat in a Milton winter, which plain-sawn does not.

Quartz, 30mm

Counters and splashes. We steer people away from marble in working kitchens, it etches from a lemon, and nobody warns you until it's cut.

Unlacquered brass

Taps and hardware. It darkens and marks with use. If that idea bothers you, we'll specify satin nickel instead and you'll be happier in year three.

Plywood boxes

Never particleboard, in any package including the cheapest. A dishwasher leak ends a particleboard kitchen and merely annoys a plywood one.

Five stages, and where your money sits at each one

Deposits are staged against work completed. We never hold more than one stage ahead.

Consult

Ninety minutes at your table. Measurements, photographs, and an honest range before we leave.

FREE

Design

Plans, elevations and 3D views. Two rounds of revisions included, and most people use one.

$2,400 · CREDITED

Specification

Every item named with its price. You sign a fixed quote that only moves if you change something.

20% DEPOSIT

Build

One site lead, daily. Cabinetry arrives week four. Photo update every Friday afternoon.

40% AT CABINET DELIVERY

Handover

We write the deficiency list, not you. Balance is due once it's closed.

FINAL 40%

“Twelve projects a year sounded like a limitation until I realised it meant we weren't sharing a foreman with four other sites.”

Aoife HalloranOld Milton · $94,800 · June 2026
“The Friday photograph turned up for nine weeks straight. When the stone was delayed they told me on the Wednesday it happened, not the Friday I'd have found out anyway.”
Nadia RahimiHawthorne Village · $71,300 · Feb 2026
“I asked for marble three times. Three times they explained why not, and offered to do it anyway if I signed something saying I'd been warned. I went with quartz.”
Curtis BaileyBeaty · $52,900 · Oct 2025
WSIB clearance
Active
#SPEC-2290741, ask to see it
Liability
$5,000,000
Certificate with every quote
Projects per year
Twelve
Deliberately capped
Workmanship
3 years
Written · cabinetry 10 years

Book a design consult

Ninety minutes at your kitchen table. You'll have a realistic range before we leave, and no one will follow up more than twice.

  • 01We reply within one business day, always by a person
  • 02If your project suits a different builder, we'll name one
  • 03Current lead time for a start date: late October 2026
  • 04Prefer to talk? 905 555 0188
Thank you, we'll be in touch within one business day to arrange the consult.

No obligation. We never pass your details on.