Full interior fit-out of a design showroom — a retail space built to display kitchens, vanities, stone slab, tile and flooring, with the display vignettes themselves installed as part of the work.
Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario.
Roughly 4,000 square feet delivered in two weeks of on-site construction. Turnkey cost worked out to approximately $120,000, or about $30 per square foot — the lowest rate of any project on this page, and there is a reason for it worth explaining below.
A large open unit with an exposed steel roof structure and services running overhead. No partitions, no finished floor, nothing to define the rooms that the display vignettes would sit in.
The whole ceiling — deck, joists, ductwork, conduit — is painted black and left open. In a showroom that is not just a look. A dark ceiling stops the eye at the top of the display walls, so each vignette reads as its own room instead of as one object in a big warehouse. It also means the mechanical routing has to be tidy enough to look at, because none of it gets covered.
In a flooring showroom the floor is not a background — it is something the customer is being sold. The main area runs in plank, with a herringbone section laid in the display zone so both patterns can be seen at full scale rather than off a sample board.
The finished rooms are the showroom's catalogue: full kitchens, vanities against slab walls, sample panel systems. All of it was set and installed on site once the shell was ready, which is why the schedule splits the way it does — the construction ran in two weeks, then the display units went in as they were delivered.
Two weeks of on-site construction from framing to a finished, painted, floored shell. Display millwork followed as it was delivered.
A 4,000 sf showroom delivered at roughly $30 per square foot — far below the $71–133/sf range of the office and restaurant projects elsewhere on this page. That gap is not a discount, it is the scope. A showroom is a large open box: few partitions per square foot, no commercial kitchen, no under-slab drainage, no health-department approvals, and lighting and finishes that are deliberately simple so the product on display is what the customer looks at. If you are pricing a retail or showroom fit-out in Etobicoke or across the GTA, that is the band to plan around — and the reason a restaurant of the same size costs four times as much.
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