Meadowvale Village, Mississauga

Twenty-four doors, every one measured to the sixteenth of an inch before a single one was cut.

• New doors and drawer fronts, boxes sprayed
• Twenty-four doors, measured individually
• New handles in the existing holes

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   The kitchen drawn as twenty-four numbered openings, then every one measured — 18 7/16 by 15 3/4, 21 9/16 by 29 15/16, and so on down the page, with the hinge holes noted at four-inch centres and the kick cut to four lengths. A cabinet opening is never the size the catalogue thinks it is.

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   02

   One door back from the booth with its handle already on, laid on the counter it will live above. The old holes were used rather than filled and re-drilled — the new doors were bored to match the hardware spacing already there, which is a decision made at the measuring stage, not on installation day.

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   03

   New fronts, same boxes, same counters, same backsplash, same floor. The room that came back is the room that was there — it is the doors that were carrying the date, and they are the one part of a kitchen that can be replaced without touching anything else.