Finish Carpentry in Seattle: Trim, Doors and Millwork
Finish carpentry is the part of a house you touch and look at every day: the door that closes with a click, the baseboard that meets the floor without a gap, the stair rail that doesn't wobble.
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Serving Seattle, the Eastside, Everett to Olympia
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Pacific West's carpenters do that work across Seattle, in new remodels and in older houses where nothing is square. See our interior remodeling services for everything else inside.
What we do
Baseboard, casing and crown
installed or replaced, coped at inside corners so they stay tight.
Matching old trim
in Craftsman and early-1900s houses, from stock profiles or milled to match.
Interior doors
hollow-core swapped for solid, pre-hung or slab, rehung so they swing and latch right. For exterior doors, see the windows and doors page.
Stairs
treads, risers, handrails, balusters and newel posts repaired or replaced.
Wainscoting, paneling and beams.
Built-ins
covered on the cabinets and built-ins page.
Working in older houses
Old Seattle houses have walls that lean, floors that slope and openings that aren't square. Good trim work hides that. It takes scribing to the wall, shimming jambs and choosing where a gap gets absorbed. We plan it before the first cut so the finished room looks straight even when the house isn't.
Trim usually gets painted afterward, and we can do that too.
Questions, answered
Can you match the trim in my 1920s house?
Usually. Many profiles are still made. When one isn't, a mill can make a matching knife and run new trim. We bring samples to compare first.
Is it worth replacing hollow-core doors?
If you want quieter rooms and doors that feel solid, yes. Solid-core doors also stop sound much better between bedrooms.
Can you fix a wobbly stair railing?
Usually. Loose railings are often a newel post that was never properly anchored. We fix the anchoring rather than just adding screws.
Do you take trim-only jobs?
We do carpentry on its own as well as part of remodels.
Why do my trim corners keep opening up?
Mitered inside corners open as wood moves with the seasons. Coped joints stay tight, so that's how we install them.
See every cost before you decide
Tell us what you're planning. We'll set up a free walk-through and send an estimate with every cost listed, so you decide what's in.
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- Takes about a minute
- Photos optional