Finishing Carpentry
Interior trim or finishing carpentry basically refers to the use of moldings. These moldings can be used in a variety of different ways. Door and window casings are the enclosing frames around a door or window. Chair rails are horizontal moldings affixed to a wall equal to the height of the backside of a chair. Baseboard is the molding covering the gap between the wall and the floor. A cornice, more commonly known as crown molding can be made up of several pieces, covers the area where the walls meet the ceiling. Finishing carpentry can also include other interior woodworking such as wall frames, wainscoting, paneling, mantels, surrounds, coffered ceilings, columns and fluted pilasters just to name a few more.
As a finishing carpenter I’ve hung hundreds of doors, installed miles of baseboard and crown molding and trimmed out too many doorways and windows to count. It’s about patience and precision being applied with skill and forethought. It’s about how good of an eye you have and how much work you are willing to do to make something look perfect. Balance and proportion must be considered when combining several types of molding in the same area and even in the same room.
Crown
The photos in this gallery, again, like other galleries contain only a very small portion of the amount of finishing carpentry I’ve done over the years.
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