Baseboard, casing, crown, wainscot, built-ins and stair parts fitted by carpenters who scribe to wavy old plaster instead of hiding gaps under a bead of caulk. Paint-grade or stain-grade, matched to the age of your house.
Finish carpentry is the part of a remodel you look at every day, and it is the part that separates a crew that builds from a crew that manages subcontractors. Constructive Brothers keeps trim in house. Our carpenters cope inside corners on baseboard rather than mitering them, back-bevel casing so the reveal stays even on out-of-square jambs, and scribe every piece to walls that were plastered by hand in 1915 and have not been flat since. On older homes in the University District, the Northside and the Slant Streets we match existing profiles, sometimes by having a knife ground at a local mill, so the new work in a kitchen or addition does not announce itself.
The same care goes into newer houses in Miller Creek and Grant Creek, where builder-grade MDF trim and hollow doors are often the first thing owners want replaced. We install solid-core doors hung on three hinges, poplar or fir casing for paint, and clear vertical-grain fir or white oak where the wood will be stained. Built-ins are designed around what you actually store: a mudroom bench with boot cubbies sized for winter gear, or bookshelves that carry the crown line around the room. Every piece is fastened with an 18-gauge or 15-gauge nailer into studs or blocking, then filled and sanded for paint.
Trim packages for a whole house in Missoula usually land between $6,000 and $25,000, with built-ins adding $3,500 to $12,000 per piece, and the cost is driven mostly by stain-grade versus paint-grade wood, the number of doors and how much old trim needs matching.
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Old plaster and even new drywall are never truly flat. We scribe baseboard to the floor and casing to the wall so the joint closes without a fat bead of caulk, which matters on stain-grade fir where caulk cannot hide anything.
A 1920s Craftsman bungalow wants 5-inch flat casing with a back band, and a 1960s ranch wants something simpler. We match what is already there or source period-appropriate profiles, and for historic homes we can have a custom knife made to reproduce the original.
Skis, boots, dog gear and river stuff take space. We design mudroom benches, closet systems and pantry shelving around the things a Missoula family actually owns, build them from plywood and hardwood rather than particleboard, and install them level even when the floor is not.
We hang doors so they latch without slamming and stay put when opened halfway, which means plumb jambs, shimmed hinges and a strike set for the actual gap. Pre-hung or slab, interior or exterior, we treat every door like the moving part it is.
We look at the existing trim, note what stays and what goes, and bring profile samples so you can see a 3.5-inch versus a 5.25-inch baseboard against your wall before anything is ordered.
The quote lists every room, the linear feet of each profile, door counts and any built-ins as separate line items, so you can trim the scope yourself if the number needs to come down.
Wood sits in your house for several days before we cut it, because Missoula's dry winter air shrinks trim that was stored in a damp warehouse. Then we install room by room with the shop set up on site.
Nail holes get filled and sanded flush, and caulk goes only where caulk belongs. We can paint or stain it ourselves, or hand it off to your painter ready to go.
Based in Missoula. One crew and one standard of work from Frenchtown to Hamilton, up the Blackfoot and over to Seeley Lake.
Whole-house and multi-room renovations for Missoula's older housing stock, run by the carpenters who do the work. We open walls and fix what the last owner hid, then finish to a standard that passes inspection the first time.
Learn more →From opening up a closed-off 1950s kitchen to a full gut with new layout, cabinets, tile and lighting, our carpenters handle the structure and the finish work themselves, so the schedule holds and the details line up.
Learn more →Restoration carpentry for Missoula's pre-war houses: rebuilt porches, repaired double-hung windows, matched siding and trim, and structural fixes done in a way that keeps what makes the house worth saving.
Learn more →Free on-site walkthrough. A fixed-scope quote in writing. Work that passes inspection the first time.
Send us a few photos and a rough idea of the project. You will get a real number from a real carpenter, usually within one business day.
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