Baseboard, trim & crown molding
Trim carpentry in Suffolk County, fit tight
New baseboard, door and window casing, and crown molding for Long Island homes. Closed corners, filled nail holes and clean caulk lines, ready for paint.
- Fully insured
Why trim shows every shortcut
Trim sits right at eye level and right at the floor. If it was rushed, you notice.
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Corners that open up
Inside corners cut at a quick angle look fine on day one, then pull apart as the house dries out in winter.
We cope inside corners, which means shaping one piece to fit the face of the other, so they stay closed.
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Gaps under the baseboard
Floors in older houses dip and roll. Straight baseboard on a wavy floor leaves gaps you can slide a coin into.
We scribe the base, which means trimming the bottom edge to follow the floor.
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Caulk doing the carpentry
Big gaps packed with caulk crack, shrink and turn yellow within a season or two.
We fit the joints first. Caulk is only for a thin, clean line where trim meets the wall.
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Crown that waves along the ceiling
Ceilings sag a little and walls lean. Crown molding shows all of it.
We find the high and low spots first and set the crown so it reads straight from across the room.
How we do your trim
Same crew from the first cut to the last bead of caulk. You get a written price and a start date first.
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Look at the rooms
We walk through with you, check the walls and floors, and talk about how tall and how detailed you want the trim.
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Pick profiles and write the price
You pick the baseboard, casing and crown shapes. We put every room and every piece in an itemized price.
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Pull the old trim
Old trim comes off carefully so the wall behind it stays in good shape. We patch what needs it.
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Cut, cope and install
Each piece is measured in place, coped or mitered, glued at the joints and nailed into framing.
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Fill, caulk and walk through
Nail holes filled, joints sanded, caulk lines tooled. We clean up and walk the rooms with you.
Where we put in new trim
Anywhere the old trim is tired, missing, or was never there.
- Living rooms and dining rooms
- Bedrooms after new flooring
- Newly finished basements
- Hallways and stairways
- Around new doors and windows
- Houses getting ready to list
- Kitchens, where cabinets meet the ceiling
- Whole-house trim upgrades
Trim carpentry for Long Island homes
We take trim carpentry in Suffolk County slowly, because trim is what makes a room look finished instead of just painted. Baseboard covers the joint where the wall meets the floor. Casing frames every door and window. Crown molding softens the line where the wall meets the ceiling. When those pieces fit tight, the whole room looks sharper. When they don’t, you see gaps, cracked caulk and corners that have pulled apart.
A lot of houses around Medford, Sayville and Lake Grove still have the thin, flat trim the builder put in decades ago. It works, but it looks small next to new floors and fresh paint. Swapping it for taller base and fuller casing is one of the simplest ways to make a room feel newer without tearing anything else apart.
Older houses need more fitting
Walls in an older cape or colonial are rarely flat, and floors are rarely level. That’s normal. It just means trim can’t be cut to a number and nailed up. We hold each piece in place, mark it, and fit it to the wall and floor it’s actually going on. Inside corners get coped, so they stay closed as the house moves through the seasons. Long runs get glued at the joints so they don’t open up later.
Paint-grade or stain-grade
Most trim we put in is paint-grade. That means primed MDF or finger-jointed pine that gets filled, caulked and painted, so small joints disappear under the paint. Stain-grade trim is solid wood like oak, left with a wood finish. It takes more care because every joint and nail hole shows, so the fitting has to be even tighter. If your house already has stained trim you want to keep, we can add new pieces to match as closely as the wood allows.
Trim as part of a bigger project
New trim often goes in with other work: new interior doors, new vinyl plank floors, a finished basement, or a full room remodel. Because our same crew does the sheetrock, patching, trim and paint, the trim goes in at the right point in the job and nobody is waiting on another contractor to finish the room.
Before we come out
You don’t need to have anything picked out. It does help to think about:
- Which rooms you want done, and whether you want the trim to match from room to room
- Whether new floors are coming, so we can plan the baseboard around them
- Whether you like a simple, clean look or more detail
- Whether you want the trim painted by us or left ready for paint
- Any pieces you want to keep, like an original stair rail or a mantel
A few photos of your current trim, the corners and the floors let us come with samples that fit your house.
Trim and molding questions
How much does new trim cost?
It depends on how many rooms, which pieces you want (base, casing, crown), how detailed the profiles are, the material, and how much patching the walls need once the old trim is off. We look at the rooms and give you a written, itemized price before any work starts.
Should trim be painted before or after it goes up?
We usually prime first, install, then fill, caulk and do the final coats on the wall. That way the nail holes and joints disappear. We wrote a full answer on this in our homeowner questions below.
Can you match the trim I already have?
Often, yes. Many common profiles are still made. Older or unusual shapes can be harder, and sometimes we build a close match out of two pieces. We'll show you how close we can get before you decide.
Does the baseboard have to come off for new floors?
Usually it should. Pulling the base lets the new floor tuck under it and look finished. We can reinstall the old base if it's in good shape, or put in new base with a small shoe molding along the floor.
Is crown molding a good idea with low ceilings?
It can be. A smaller, simpler crown works well in a cape or a high ranch with standard ceilings. A big, heavy crown can make a low room feel shorter, so we help you pick the size.
How long does a trim job take?
It depends on how much is being done and what we find once we start. Your written price includes a start date and how long the job will take.
Get a price on your trim.
Tell us which rooms and what kind of trim you're thinking about. A few photos of the walls and floors help us come prepared.
631-745-9982- Price in writing before any work starts.
- One crew from start to finish.
- Fully insured