Custom Trim and Carpentry
Crown molding, casing, and baseboard in Lancaster and Chester County, PA
Builder trim is thin, and most people feel it without seeing it. Replacing it is the quietest big change a house can have: a taller baseboard, wider casings around the doors and windows, crown molding that turns the corners cleanly, and, when the budget allows, new interior doors that go with it. We do it a room at a time or the whole house, and we cope the corners instead of mitering them so they stay tight.
What We Replace and Install
- Crown molding: single piece or built up from two or three profiles, coped at inside corners, in rooms, halls, and up a stair.
- Casing: wider, flatter, or more traditional profiles around doors and windows, with plinth blocks and rosettes where the style calls for them.
- Baseboard: taller base with a cap or a shoe, run tight to the floor and coped at the corners.
- Window stools and aprons where a window has none, and picture rail or chair rail where a room wants it.
- Interior doors: solid-core doors in a panel style, hung and cased to match, with new hardware.
- Staircase trim and railings: skirt boards, newel posts, balusters, and a handrail that is solid in the hand.
Why Coping Matters
Inside corners that are mitered open up as the house moves and the seasons change. Coping cuts one piece to the profile of the other so the joint stays closed, and it is how you can tell the trim was done by someone who learned the trade properly. Every inside corner we run is coped, the joints are glued, and the nail holes are filled and sanded before paint.
Paint and Finish
Trim is primed, the joints and holes are filled, everything is caulked to the wall, and two coats of trim enamel go on, by brush or spray depending on the house. Where the walls are being painted too, we sequence it so the lines are sharp. The crown below, with its two-tone painted frame, is in Chester Springs.
Questions
Questions We Get
Can crown molding go in a room with cathedral ceilings?
On the flat walls, yes, and on the sloped ones the profile has to be cut to the rake, which is a known problem with a known solution. We have done it.
Should the base and casing match the existing trim in the rest of the house?
In a single room, usually yes, so the room does not read as different. If the plan is the whole house over time, we pick the new profiles now and work room by room.
Do you replace the doors too?
Yes. New solid-core doors with new casings are the finish that makes a trim upgrade complete, and hanging doors properly is part of the trade we came up in.
Process
How We Work
- We visit, measure, and talk through the scope before anything is priced.
- You get a written proposal, and we build to it.
- Where the work needs a permit, we walk you through it every step: the application, the drawings the township asks for, and the inspections.
- We are on site from the first day to the last, and the house stays clean while we work.
- We walk the finished job with you, fix anything on the list, and clean up.
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Where We Work
Based in Christiana, we work across Lancaster County and Chester County.
Lancaster County
- Christiana
- Gap
- Quarryville
- Strasburg
- Lancaster
Chester County
- Parkesburg
- Coatesville
- West Chester
- Kennett Square
- Downingtown
- Malvern
- Chester Springs
- Frazer
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