22 Ingram Drive · Unit 3 · Toronto

Every piece stands here first.

Whether you drew it or you will live with it, you can see your work standing in this building before it ships, while a change is still a conversation rather than a rebuild.

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Inside the shop at 22 Ingram Drive: one of the team feeds a board through the planer while another works at a bench, with the studio van in the open loading door at the far end.

Everything shown here happens in this building.

Rough stock comes in at one end and finished work leaves at the other wrapped and staged. Seven stations, one roof, and no hand-off to a shop you have not met.

A member of the team feeds a board across the panel saw, with sheet goods racked on edge behind.

Zone 01 · Raw stock in

Milling

Raw lumber and sheet goods are cut to rough size here, from stock sourced for the project rather than pulled from a standing inventory.

The CNC router with a sheet laid on its bed and white panels stacked against the wall beside it.

Zone 02 · Panel processing

CNC machining

Sheet goods are processed to the drawing on the CNC, including the curved work other shops decline.

A member of the team in hearing protection works at the thickness planer, with the dust collectors and a table saw behind.

Zone 03 · Milled to dimension

Solidwood processing

Solid stock is milled, planed, jointed, shaped, and sanded to dimension in the building. Nothing arrives pre-dimensioned.

The edge-banding machine with dust extraction ducting overhead and shelving behind it holding bins and boxes.

Zone 04 · Solid and veneer edges

Edge-banding

Solid and veneer edges are applied here. Which one an element gets is decided at the drawing table rather than by default.

A craftsperson drives a screw into an open wood case standing on a workbench, with clamps racked on the wall behind.

Zone 05 · Carcass to hardware

Assembly at benches

Carcasses go together on the bench, with veneering, laminating, and hardware installed at the same station.

One of the team looks up at a tall open-shelved cabinet in pale wood with rounded corners, hands on its frame, as it stands on a workbench on the shop floor.

Zone 06 · Full setup, pre-ship

Staging

Every project is set up in full here before it leaves. Hardware fits, doors close, drawers run, and anything that does not is found on a stable floor under shop light.

Wrapped pieces on a pallet with a pallet jack, beside the studio van with its rear doors open.

Zone 07 · Crated and palletized

Packaging and shipping

Finished work is crated, wrapped, and palletized here, and goes out with the crews who install it.

The table

Some things you can see.

Quality in this trade is a tactile argument. These sit on the table at every visit, and the difference between them and the standard version is something you register in your hands before you agree with it.

  1. Three reeded panel samples in different sizes beside a sheet of cane webbing and a strip of small white tiles, in front of a panelled door sample.

    Reeding and cane

    Reeding in three sizes beside cane and a panelled door, so the scale of a profile is settled at full size before anything is milled.

  2. Two panel samples standing on a shelf, each with a profiled solid wood edge fitted along its top.

    A solid wood edge

    Shaped in solid wood and fitted to the panel's core, so the edge your hand finds is wood, not a printed strip.

  3. Two brushed brass-toned pulls with knurled grips on long backplates, standing on a shelf in front of a row of metal samples.

    Knurled pulls on backplates

    The knurl, the weight, and the length of the backplate are judged in the hand, before a door is drilled for them.

  4. A white oak floor vent with 14 slots, standing on a shelf against a dark panel.

    A white oak floor vent

    Cut from solid white oak, so the grain runs unbroken past all 14 slots and the vent reads as part of the floor.

  5. Glazed tile samples in deep green, cream crackle and amber relief, with terracotta pieces in front, on a shelf.

    Glazed tile and terracotta

    Relief, crackle, and gloss glazes beside plain terracotta, so the line where tile meets millwork is settled before either is cut.

  6. A row of metal finish samples standing upright on a shelf, dark and brushed tags in front and warm gold tones further back.

    Metal finish samples

    Dark, brushed, and warm-toned metal, set beside the millwork it will meet, so the finish is chosen against the wood.

The appointment

Tell us what you are working on.

We host designers, architects, and homeowners by appointment. Give us a sense of the project and we will suggest a time when there is something on the floor worth your drive. We reply within two business days.

Scope, materials, and the elements you are least sure will get built.

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22 Ingram Drive, Unit 3 · Toronto, ON
Phone
(416) 567-8109
Hours
By appointment
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