Interior Doors & Hardware
Door casing upgrades, consistent jamb reveals, and hardware that latches properly — including attic access ladders.
Doors are where trim work gets judged, because a door is the one piece of architecture in a house that people physically operate several times a day. If it sticks, rubs, or fails to latch, no amount of good casing makes up for it.
Casing upgrades
Pre-hung doors arrive with the jamb set and the casing left to whoever trims the house. Upgrading that casing is one of the highest-value trim changes available, because a house typically has ten to fifteen door openings — so one profile decision repeats everywhere and sets the tone for the whole interior.
Jamb reveals
The reveal is the narrow strip of jamb left visible inside the casing. It should be identical on every opening in the house, and it very often is not — production trim gets eyeballed, so reveals wander between an eighth and a quarter inch.
We set the reveal with a gauge rather than by eye and hold the same figure on every opening, including the ones nobody looks at. It is invisible when correct, and slightly wrong-looking forever when it is not.
Latches, hinges, and hardware
A door that has to be pulled or lifted to latch has a strike plate in the wrong place or hinges that have settled. Both are quick to correct with the door already hung: shim a hinge, move a strike, adjust the stop. We do that as part of the trim work rather than leaving it as a callback.
Hardware, deadbolts, and concealed stops go in at the same time. Concealed stops in particular are worth asking about — they protect the wall behind the door without a rubber bumper screwed into the baseboard.
Attic access ladders
An attic ladder is a genuinely useful upgrade that almost nobody enjoys doing: overhead work, in a tight opening, with a heavy assembly that has to end up square and properly supported. We fit them as an add-on to trim work, framed and shimmed so the door closes flush with the ceiling.