The little shop
on 15th Street.
Where things
worth keeping
get kept.

Metro Art & Frame is an owner-operated custom framing shop in Central Lonsdale, North Vancouver, with 4.7 stars on 83 reviews. This page is a draft web design from X9 — an unsolicited proposal. The photos here are placeholders. The number above is the shop's; we're X9.

You don't frame a thing because it's valuable. You frame it because it matters to you — and then it lasts.

There's a kind of shop a neighbourhood needs and rarely notices until it's gone: the one where you bring the watercolour your aunt painted, the marriage certificate, the concert poster, the map of a place you used to live. You hand it across the counter a little embarrassed at how much it means, and the framer doesn't blink. They've heard it all. They know that the value isn't on the appraisal sheet.

On 15th Street in Central Lonsdale, that shop is Metro Art & Frame — owner-operated, careful, the kind of place where the work is done by the person who answers the phone. Custom framing, conservation and archival mounting, done meticulously and without fuss.

Good framing is mostly invisible. The acid-free mat that keeps the paper from browning. The hinge that holds without gluing. The glazing that takes the glare off the light from the window. None of it announces itself — you just notice, years later, that the thing still looks the way it did the day you brought it in.

That's conservation, quietly. It's the difference between a frame and a future for whatever you put inside it.

There's no price list pinned to the wall here, and there shouldn't be — every piece is its own small problem to solve. Bring it in; it's quoted in-store, against the actual thing, in your hands. Prices indicative until then — owner to confirm.