01White Oak
Rift & quartersawnCut for stability and a straight, restrained grain. Finished in hardwax oil that ages rather than wears.
Montréal · Bespoke Staircases & Millwork
Staircases worth building a house around.
We design and build bespoke staircases and fine architectural millwork by hand. Floating oak, sculpted walnut, blackened steel and brass, engineered to the millimetre in our Mile-End workshop.
The Workshop
Twenty-five years at the bench.
Northcraft began with a single staircase and a refusal to cut corners. We still work the way we did then. Every stair is drawn to scale, engineered for the exact rise of your home, and dry-fit in full on the workshop floor before a single tread leaves the building.
Nothing is jobbed out. The hands that mill the oak are the hands that set the brass and hang the rail. That continuity is the difference you feel underfoot, in the silence of a stair that does not creak, and the line of a handrail that flows without a seam.
- Est. 1998
- Founded in Mile-End
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- Staircases installed
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- Craftspeople at the bench
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- Steps outsourced
Materials
Four materials, chosen for the next hundred years.
We keep the palette narrow on purpose. Fewer materials, worked properly, outlast any catalogue of finishes.
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02Black Walnut
Solid · book-matchedWarm and deep, sculpted into handrails your hand returns to. Oiled to a satin, never sprayed to a shine.
03Blackened Steel
Hand-patinated plateHot-rolled stringers and balustrades, blackened by hand to carry the load and recede into shadow.
04Brass & Glass
Machined in-houseSolid brass fixings and low-iron glass, machined to tolerances you will never notice. Which is the point.
Selected Work
A staircase is the room you remember.
The Mile-End Workshop
Everything we sell is made in one room, by the people who designed it.
How We Work
From first sketch to final tread.
A bespoke staircase is a long relationship with a single object. Here is how the work unfolds, and what you can expect at each stage.
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Consultation & survey
We measure the opening ourselves, study the light, and listen to how you live in the house. No two stairs begin the same way.
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Design & engineering
You approve scaled drawings and a material sample set. We engineer every connection and load path before a single board is cut.
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Fabrication
Each component is milled, joined, blackened and finished by hand, then dry-assembled in full so the installation holds no surprises.
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Installation
Our own crew sets the stair in one controlled phase, protects the site, and leaves with the dust. Eight to twelve weeks from approval.
We expected a contractor. What arrived was a piece of furniture the size of a room. Three years on, not one tread has shifted, and it is still the first thing every guest stops to touch.
- RBQ licensed
- Fully insured
- 10-year structural guarantee
- Serving Greater Montréal
Request a Quote
Tell us about the stair you have in mind.
Send the basics and a few photos of the opening. We reply to every enquiry within two business days, with a realistic range before you commit to anything.
- Telephone
- (514) 555-0147
- Atelier
- atelier@northcraft.ca
- Workshop
- 5400 Av. Casgrain, Mile-End, Montréal
- Hours
- By appointment · Mon to Fri