Detailed Trim Work in Hamilton County, IN.

◆What we do◆

A canvas, thoughtfully finished.

Trim is where finish work earns its name. The detail no one notices on the wall is the detail everyone notices on the casing. The joint at the crown molding, the line where the base meets the wall, the bead on the cabinet door, the way the paint sits inside the panel of a wainscot. If those are right, the room reads as finished. If they are not, no amount of wall color fixes it.

We caulk the seam. We fill the nail hole. We sand the edge so it is smooth, not just covered. Then we lay the paint down with the right tool for the profile: a brush for the inside corner, a sprayer for the door panel, a roller for the long flat. The trim looks like furniture when we are done because we treat it like furniture while we are doing it.

Crown molding gets a longer time horizon than people expect. Base moldings get a topcoat that can take a vacuum cleaner. Door and window casings get the same product as the doors so the paint reads as one piece. Built-in bookshelves get spray finishes on the panels and brush finishes on the trim so the texture difference reads in person.

If your house has the trim and we are finishing it, we treat it the way the carpenter would have if he had finished it himself.

Materials and process

Sherwin-Williams Emerald Urethane Trim. This is the product. It dries hard, it flows out flat, it holds up to fingertips and vacuum cleaners and Hamilton County humidity. Inside corners get brushed. Long flats get sprayed.

Prep first. Sand the existing finish. Caulk every seam. Fill every nail hole. Prime where bare wood shows. The trim feels right under your hand before it ever sees paint.

Brush, spray, or both. Doors and panels get sprayed for flow-out. Crown and base get brushed for cut lines. Built-ins get both. The tool is matched to the profile, not the schedule.