// 04 Installations
Pop-ups. Retail activations. Photo studios. Brand experiences. Theatre. The skills that build a believable diner build a believable storefront — and our catalog of reused pieces makes them faster, cheaper, and infinitely greener.
RETAIL POP-UP
Boutiques, launches, takeovers. Built off-site, installed overnight, struck same night.
EXPERIENTIAL
Multi-room walk-throughs, immersive zones, photo moments. Dressed by a film crew, not a fabrication shop.
PHOTO STUDIO
Modular vignettes for fashion, lookbook, content. Built once, restruck weekly, lives in the catalog.
EVENT / THEATRE
Award nights, conferences, theatrical runs. Tour-ready builds that pack flat and travel.
// Why install with us
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Half your install probably already exists in our catalog. We'll show you before we quote you new.
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Every surface gets film-set finishing standards — because tomorrow's content shoots in your space too.
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When the install ends, we collect. Your activation doesn't become someone else's landfill problem.
// End to end
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Translate the brand brief into spatial narrative. Mood, lighting, flow, photo moments.
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3D renders, fabrication-ready drawings, material spec, lighting plot.
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Off-site at DC's build floor. Reused-first sourcing. You see daily progress photos.
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Overnight load-in to your venue, on-site finishing, lighting tune, snag list cleared by doors-open.
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Same crew comes back at the end. Pieces flow into our catalog. Sustainability report follows.
// Case study
Toronto · 14-day run · 2,400 sq ft retail takeover
// The brief
Take over a vacant 2,400 sq ft Queen West retail space for two weeks. Four narrative "rooms" tied to the season's collection. Has to be Instagrammable, has to handle 300+ daily visitors, and has to leave the storefront in better shape than we found it.
// What we did
Build days
8
Install + strike
3 nights
Reused
82%
Visitors / day avg
340
"Most build crews disappear once the doors open. DC walked through every day for the first week. When something cracked, they fixed it before the brand even noticed." — Brand Director
// Recent installations
// Brief us
// FAQ
Concept-to-doors-open in as little as 3 weeks for retail/pop-up scale, depending on what's in the catalog. Larger immersive activations want 6+ weeks. We've gone faster — at premium — but we won't say yes to a deadline we can't actually hit.
Retail pop-ups typically $35k–$120k all-in (design + build + install + strike + take-back). Experiential at brand scale runs $150k–$500k+. The catalog brings the bottom of those ranges down — half your inventory is probably already on our shelves.
Greater Toronto Area is home turf. Anywhere in Ontario, no hesitation. Cross-Canada possible — we've trucked installs to Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver. Travel + accommodation billed at cost, transparent in the quote.
Yes — we frequently build to other people's design. Your designer hands us specs, we hand back fabrication drawings + green-spec quote, you approve, we build. Our drafting team is fluent in Vectorworks and AutoCAD; we accept SketchUp / Rhino / hand-drawings too.
Yes — every install ships with a sustainability report you can include in the brand's PR or impact reporting. Quantified diversion (kg + CO₂e) backed by item-level manifest. Not vibes — audit-grade math your sustainability team can defend.
Take-back is built into every quote. We strike, we truck, we route every piece — most back to our catalog (with your brand credited on the provenance), some to recycling, almost nothing to landfill. You get a final report.