Barrie woodworking,room by room.

Barrie is the busiest stop on the calendar after Orillia. Most of the work is in the newer subdivisions across the south end — Painswick, Holly, Ardagh and the streets off Mapleview — where houses were finished quickly and buyers are now replacing builder-grade kitchens and finishing basements they have lived above for a few years.

The older neighbourhoods near the waterfront and Allandale, and the east end above Kempenfelt Bay, are a different kind of job: smaller rooms, wonkier walls, and homeowners who want built-ins that look like they were always there. Those get the same scribe-to-the-wall install as anything in Orillia.

The shop is about thirty minutes up Highway 11, so a Barrie job is measured on site, built in Orillia, and installed by the same person who drew it. Nothing is subcontracted.