Surrey BC • Custom Cabinetry • Restoration

Custom Cabinets Built Without Compromise

Precision joinery. Finishes that hold up. Work you'll still be proud of in twenty years. Richard Armstrong has been building things that outlast everything else in the room for over two decades — and he brings that same obsessive standard to every kitchen, restoration, and commercial project.

"If it's been done, we can do it better."
— Richard Armstrong, Founder

What We Build

Every project gets the same obsessive attention to detail that once went into guitars for the world's greatest players.

Custom Cabinets

Kitchen, bathroom, laundry, and beyond. Designed and built from scratch to fit your space, your style, and your life.

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Kitchen Restoration

Refinishing, refacing, and full-gut renovations. We bring tired kitchens back from the dead with surgical precision.

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Insurance Restoration

Fire, flood, or impact damage. We work directly with adjusters to restore your cabinetry and millwork to pre-loss condition.

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Commercial Millwork

Retail fixtures, office buildouts, restaurant interiors. Production-grade quality with custom-shop standards.

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Catios & Custom Pet Structures

Outdoor cat enclosures, custom pet furniture, and specialty structures built to last through BC weather.

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Wood Finishing

Staining, lacquering, and specialty finishes. The same finishing techniques that made guitars stage-ready, applied to your cabinets.

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20+ Years Experience
500+ Projects Completed
5 Person Team
100% Custom Built
White shaker kitchen build — Langley, BC

Twenty Years. One Standard.

Richard Armstrong is a self-taught craftsman who has spent over twenty years building things that demand precision. He runs a five-person shop in Surrey, BC, working on custom kitchens, insurance restorations, commercial millwork, and specialty builds across the Lower Mainland.

His background is unusual: before cabinetry, he spent years building custom guitars for collectors and musicians — including a meticulous recreation of Brian May's Red Special for Queen tribute work and Van Halen-inspired Frankenstrat builds. When you've built instruments where a fraction of a millimetre changes the sound, you don't accept loose tolerances in a kitchen.

That's the credential behind the work. The work itself speaks for itself.

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What Clients Say

From first-time homeowners to insurance adjusters who've worked with us on a dozen claims.

★★★★★
"We'd had two other cabinet companies quote the job and both said what we wanted couldn't be done in the space. Richard came in, measured for about twenty minutes, and sent us a drawing the next day that fit everything we'd asked for. The finished kitchen is better than what we imagined. The detail on those drawer boxes alone."
K. & M. Vanderberg Full Kitchen Build — South Surrey
★★★★★
"I work with a lot of contractors on insurance claims. Armstrong is one of the few shops that actually documents everything the adjuster needs, shows up on schedule, and matches the original finish so well you can't tell what was replaced. That matters when a homeowner is watching their house get put back together."
D. Hartmann Insurance Adjuster — Repeated Client
★★★★★
"We needed custom millwork for a retail buildout on a tight timeline. Richard was direct about what was possible and what wasn't, came in on budget, and the quality made the whole space look like we spent twice as much. Every time someone asks about the cabinetry I give them his number."
T. Okafor Retail Owner — Commercial Buildout, Langley

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