About Varcroft & Bianco
About · Varcroft & Bianco
25+ years of cabinet-making, in a converted Ontario dairy barn.
Varcroft & Bianco is a Canadian cabinet-making company founded in Warsaw (Douro), Ontario in 1998. From a 7,000 sq ft workshop in a former dairy barn, we build custom kitchens, entry doors, drawer organizers and other millwork — and supply cabinet doors, drawer fronts and panels to homeowners, cabinet refinishers and cabinet shops across Canada.
1998
Founded
25+
Years in the shop
7,000
Sq ft workshop
4
Brands, one shop
The team
Rob and Brad — co-workers first, partners later.
Rob and Brad first met at a commercial photography studio in Ottawa over thirty years ago. Two decades on, Brad joined Rob's cabinet shop and brought the computer side of the business to life. Today they run the workshop together.
Co-founder · Master cabinet maker
Rob Bianco
Over 25 years of hands-on woodshop experience, a designer's eye, and a work ethic that hasn't slowed down since day 1.
Partner · Technology & operations
Brad Bates
Renovation, design and computer background. Brings the insight on how technology can transform a cabinet shop.
The story
From custom kitchens — to a national door shop.
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1998
Workshop opens
Rob Bianco and Charles Varty open Varcroft & Bianco in a converted dairy barn in Warsaw (Douro), Ontario — 20 km east of Peterborough.
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1998–2013
15 years of custom kitchens
The shop earns a quiet reputation across cottage country and the GTA for one-off kitchens, vanities, wall units and millwork built to order.
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2013
Charles retires
Charles Varty steps back. Rob continues to lead the shop while expanding the team and the workload.
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2018
Brad joins as partner
Brad Bates — Rob's friend from their commercial-photography days in Ottawa twenty years earlier — joins the shop bringing a renovation, construction, and computer-systems background.
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2018–today
Modernization
CNCs, a fibre laser, parts scanners, three Shopify storefronts, custom shop-planning software, and a proprietary 3D drawer-insert designer web app — all built in-house from the same workshop.
The workshop
A 7,000 sq ft converted dairy barn.
Our shop is a former dairy barn in rural eastern Ontario, about 20 km east of Peterborough. Take a quick walk through the floor — the CNCs, the laser, the spray booth, the vacuum press and the doors going out next week.
- 7,000 sq ft on a single floor
- Warsaw (Douro), Ontario
- ~20 km east of Peterborough
- CKCA member shop
Video: a walk through the Varcroft & Bianco workshop · runs about 3 minutes.
What we use
Cabinet-making craft — with a modern shop floor.
Equipment doesn't make a good cabinet maker, but it lets a small Ontario shop compete on precision and lead time. Here's the kit and the software that turns a customer drawing into a milled door in 12 business days.
01
Two CanCam B3 CNC routers
5\' × 12\' bed. The workhorses of the shop — every panel, door and drawer front is milled here.
02
Beam4 fibre laser
For precision cuts in thin plywood and engraving / branding on finished pieces.
03
Vacuum press
How our Premium Veneer doors get a flawless face — no edge-banding glue lines, real-lumber edges.
04
Spray booth + Lorchem priming
Two-coat factory priming, sanded smooth on all six sides — so cabinet-shop customers skip the bottleneck.
05
Parts scanners & shop planners
Custom software built in-house, married to Mozaik and Vectric, so a job moves from quote → cut list → CNC without a single retyped dimension.
06
Wide materials list
Premium MDF, plywood, Baltic birch, melamine, natural maple, oak, ash, walnut, cherry, and poplar.
Software stack
From a customer drawing to a milled door — without retyping a single dimension.
Software we built
A 3D web app to design your own drawer organizer.
We developed Drawer Insert Designer — a 3D web app that lets customers design their own fitted drawer organizer in the browser. Set the drawer dimensions, drag dividers into place, add knife blocks and spice racks, pick the wood species, see the price update live. When you order, we mill exactly what was on the screen.
- Real-time 3D preview with rotate / pan / tilt
- Maple, walnut, cherry · wood or felt bottom
- Live price as you build
- Direct to manufacturing — no retyping dimensions
Live screen — drawerinsertdesigner.com running in the browser.
Our brands
Four brands — one shop floor.
Every brand below ships from the same workshop, with the same hands and the same equipment behind it.
Parent company
Varcroft & Bianco
The original cabinet-making business — custom kitchens, vanities, wall units, and millwork for clients in Ontario.
Cabinet doors online
You are hereReady To Paint Cabinet Doors
Custom MDF, Standard Veneer, Premium Veneer and Mitred Slim Shaker doors. Made to order, shipped Canada-wide.
Custom drawer organizers · built in-house
Drawer Insert Designer
A proprietary 3D web app we developed so customers can design their own fitted drawer inserts in real-time — pick the materials, drag the dividers, see the live price. We mill exactly what was on the screen.
Entry, interior & screen doors
Custom Wooden Doors
Made-to-order entry, interior and screen doors, pre-hung in a jamb tailored to your spec.
A small detail
Why our MDF doors are named after lakes.
Our shop sits in eastern Ontario, with hundreds of lakes within a two-hour drive. We name our MDF Recessed and Raised Panel door styles after them — our small nod to where the shop is, and where most of us spend the weekend.
Visit us
Drop by the workshop — see what it's all about.
Address
733 County Road 8
Warsaw (Douro), Ontario
K0L 3A0, Canada
Phone
(705) 652-3520Hours
Monday – Friday · 9 am – 5 pm
Saturday · by appointment
Common questions
Who we are, in direct answers.
That's the shop
Doors, drawer fronts, and full kitchens — built here, shipped Canada-wide.
Made in Ontario · Shipped Canada-Wide · CKCA Member
