MITRE CONTRACTING, INC.

Custom Finish Carpentry in Northern Virginia

Here we feature several pictures showing off our finish carpentry we completed for a custom homebuilder in Northern Virginia. We completed this finish carpentry interior trim project in 2014

We start off with custom cased arched openings with fluted & paneled columns, two piece chair railing with shadowbox moulding wainscoting

This finish carpentry interior trim work project was installed for Quaker Custom Homes in Northern Virginia. All the mouldings & millwork was provided by Accent Millwork.  You can see more pictures of this custom home on Quaker Homes facebook page HERE ... they are a lot better quality than mine are!

The baseboards are WM-163E fjp, The windows are trimmed out with wood jambs, wood sills and WM-445 fjp casing. The 2 piece chair railing consist of a LWM-304 backer with a LWM-302 chair rail. The 3 piece crown molding is made up from a WM-49 fjp crown mould on a WM-753 beaded backer with a Wm-167 neck moulding. In the Dining room, Foyer and Hallway we installed a shadowbox panel moulding of LWP-184 under all the chair railing. The custom cased openings  are MDF construction with arched headers, fluted above the chair rail and applied panels under the chair to match the shadowbox wainscoting.

The stair railings are an (over-the-post) & (post-to-post) system consisting of 6010 oak railings, 4010PT & 4010MT red oak newel posts, with wrought iron balusters featuring an alternating layout of single baskets and double knuckles in semi-gloss black.

 

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Custom Interior Trim Carpentry

In this posting I feature several pictures of a recently completed home where we installed the finish carpentry.

This home was called the "Barn House". The pictures should speak for themselves as to the design style. We installed close to 5000 feet of 1x8 in this home. In this home we also installed all the interior doors, crown mouldings, baseboards, ceiling treatments, wall treatments, 1x8 horizontal wainscot, reclaimed barn wood wainscoting, window seats, banquette seating, window casings and the half walls, columns and beams.

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Master Bedroom and Master Bathroom Pictures:

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Stairway Pictures:

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Custom Finish Carpentry in Northern Virginia:

 

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The stairway in this house featured a center wall we wrapped in reclaimed barnwood. The stairway also features custom floating stair treads of reclaimed barn wood with recessed custom lighting. The exterior walls of the stairway got vertical and horizontal 1x8 wall treatments with a accented strip of siding. 

Custom Millwork Cased Opening Archway

This posting features a small project we completed recently for a homeowner in Northern Virginia.

This custom cased opening features fluted square columns and an arched header.

These archways can be made to fit practically any existing drywalled opening. The fluted columns wrap around the drywall opening. These can be custom made to fit any thickness wall, any height & width opening.

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BEFORE PICTURE

Existing drywall opening between living room & dining room

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AFTER PICTURES

Custom Cased Opening being installed

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Columns with fluted detail over chair rail & applied panels

Archway feature crown moulding, chair rail & fluted details

Dining room picture showing custom archway, a one piece chair rail and panel moulding shadowbox wainscoting

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DRAWING

A drawing of a similar archway

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Please call us anytime 703-330-3486, or email us, and let us provide you with a free in home consultation and free no obligation price quote for your next home improvement project. We service the entire Northern Virginia area and all the surrounding counties.

Thank You, Roger Beesley, Mitre Contracting, Inc.

 

Interior Finish Carpentry for Custom Home

Small post showing a few pictures of some of the work we completed in this custom home in Great Falls, VA. This interior trim carpentry was completed in October, 2011

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1.  View of Dining Room mouldings: 4 piece crown moldings, 2 piece chair railing, shadowbox moldings under chair rail, 1 piece 6 1/2" baseboards, adams window & door casings.

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2.  Close up view of the 4 piece crown moldings

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3.  Close up view of the 2 piece chair rail and shadowbox panel mouldings

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4.  Tray ceiling crown moulding, installed to conceal accent rope lighting

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5.  Custom kitchen cabinetry... before granite install

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6.  Built-in cabinetry

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7.  More Custom Built-In Cabinetry

 

Please call us anytime if you need any finish carpentry, built-in cabinetry, crown mouldings, or for any of your home improvement projects.  We service the entire Northern Virginia area, and several surrounding counties.

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Fill out our CONTACT FORM for your free quote on a new mantel, built-in or moulding installation!

 

More Than Just Mouldings

Even though we install miles and miles of mouldings for our customers... we also specialize in many other areas of finish carpentry in Northern Virginia and the surrounding counties. We do more than just mouldings.

In this blog we would like to feature a few pictures of some custom built-in cabinetry. This built-in consisted of two units on either side of the fireplace with a mantel feature connecting the cabinetry. Also we built a 1/2 wall bookcase topped off with some 8" tapered columns.

First take a look at a before picture of the family room area:

   

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AFTER PICTURES:

 
This picture shows the final product. Each unit is around 7' wide by 10' tall. Arched valances, plain stiles, open adjustable shelves on the upper units with closed storage below.  

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HALF WALL BUILT-IN BOOKCASE WITH COLUMNS

 

 

  

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The specifications of these particular built-in cabinets and bookcases are:

• 3/4" Birch vernier plywood casework
• Poplar wood facings with cabinet bead detail
• 3/4" birch ply counters with 1.5" wood edgings with "ogee" profiles
• Recessed toe kick design on the built-ins & flush toe on the 1/2 wall with baseboard
• Inset solid square raised panel doors with concealed euro style adjustable hinges
• Adjustable 3/4" birch ply shelves with 1.5" wood front edgings with beaded detail
• Arched valances topped with a matching crown moulding

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See more BUILT-IN CABINETRY  pictures HERE  or HERE

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If you would like us to quote you a price on building some built-ins for your home, please don't hesitate to contact us anytime. We will be glad to come out, take measurements, discuss your ideas, and design a built-in according to your wishes / needs. Let us show you that we do more than just mouldings!

Thank You, Roger Beesley

Please call us at  703-330-3486, or email us here ,

 

Interior Finish Carpentry in Virginia

This posting features a few pictures of some custom interior finsh carpentry trim work we completed awhile back. The home is located in Alexandria, Virginia.

Custom maple cabinetry with granite counters and stainless appliances

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Foyer Staircase with curved treads and railings

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Looking down the curved oak railings. This features 6010 oak rails, 5015 painted balusters and is a "post-to-post" design style bannister

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Fireplace mantel with a matching surround feature. This fireplace surround utilizes standard mouldings to mimic the mantel construction.

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  Another view of the fireplace moldings. The surround iplasters extend to the ceiling and are wrapped in the crown molding that trims out the entire living room.

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  This wainscoting for this powder room is 36" high, features a real tongue and groove pine beadboard capped with a two piece chair rail.

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Here you see a close up of the three piece crown moulding. This is made up from two pieces of a 4" baseboard used as backer with a piece of 4 5/8" crown moulding.

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Please call us anytime 703-330-3486, or email us, and let us provide you with a free in home consultation and free no obligation price quote for your next home improvement project. We service the entire Northern Virginia area and all the surrounding counties.

Thank You, Roger Beesley, Mitre Contracting, Inc.

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Fill out our CONTACT FORM for your free quote on a new mantel, built-in or moulding installation!

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Crown Molding, Chair Rail, Wainscoting Article

Interesting article on the use of moldings to enhance and beautify your home. Brings out some good points that we have espoused all along.

Who says that crown molding or chair rail is only for the Living room, Dining room and Foyer?

Interior Products Review... Mouldings

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This picture shows a nice paint grade wainscoting with a double raised panel design.

See more of this project on this page

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If you live in and around the Northern Virginia region and are interested in adding mouldings to your home... please contact us anytime for your free in home consultation and no obligation price quote

Roger Beesley,

Mitre Contracting, Inc.

Wainscoting with Raised Panels

Today's blog features some pictures of a room renovation project that includes an elegant wainscot with double raised panels.

The wainscoting is around 42" high and has an 8" tall raised  panel, over a 21" tall raised panel. The wainscot is then capped off with a two piece build up of mouldings.This wainscot project started with the framework. It consists of a 1x4 primed pine, glued and pocket screwed together. Each wall was made as a single unit consisting of many evenly divided spaces for the panels. These were then applied to the walls with construction adhesive and nailed into the studs and bottom plate. All the wainscotings individual 3/4" thick MDF panels were then fabricated in the shop, then applied to the walls in their appropriate spaces. Each panel was then trimmed out with a small 3/8" "sticking" molding. The wainscot was capped off with a modified sill molding and a nice small panel molding for an apron. We then caulked, puttied, primed and painted all the new woodworking.

 

CLOSE UP PICTURES... click to enlarge full size

Another phase of this room makeover was the removal of the "stippled" ceiling. It was scraped and skimmed over with several coats of easy sand 90. Also notice the nice ceiling molding treatment we installed. It consists of a single run of panel molding with stepped corners. This was then painted in a slightly different color which really sets it off nicely. There is also a one piece crown moulding... something that should never be missing in a room with wainscoting!

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SOME BEFORE PICTURES... click to enlarge

 

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Please call us anytime 703-330-3486, or email us, and let us provide you with a free in home consultation and free no obligation price quote for your next home improvement project. Whether it's wainscoting such as this, crown moulding, chair railing or built-in cabinetry, we can give your house that model home look. We service the entire Northern Virginia area and all the surrounding counties.

Thank You, Roger Beesley, Mitre Contracting, Inc.

Paneled Beadboard Wainscoting

Here we highlight some pictures of double paneled beadboard wainscoting. This was part of a home improvement that included this bedroom makeover project we just completed in June 2010.

This wainscot treatment consisted of a 1x4 framework all pocket screwed together, forming the 48" high double paneled system. This was then placed on top of 1/4" primed beadboard sheetgoods.  Each individual panel section was trimmed out in a nice basecap panel moulding. Then the wainscot was capped off with a two piece chair rail molding.

It was given a custom paint job with glazed accents. Also we rebuilt a window seat unit in the dormer niche area. This features recessed column pilasters and archway.

We also changed out all the old painted outlets, switches and cover plates with new ones.

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As always... you can click any picture to enlarge it in a separate window

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BEFORE PICTURES OF BEDROOM... click to enlarge

   

Notice the old stippled drywall ceilings. We had them scraped and then skim coated a few times to be smooth again.

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More Pictures

 

 

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Please call us anytime 703-330-3486, or email us, and let us provide you with a free in home consultation and free no obligation price quote for your next home improvement project. We service the entire Northern Virginia area and all the surrounding counties.

Thank You, Roger Beesley, Mitre Contracting, Inc.

Small Moulding Project

Just a note to feature a small project we completed around a year ago or so.

The project was to build a header - bulkhead - soffit and a couple of 1/2 columns, in order to separate the dining room from the living room. 

We also installed crown mouldings in the dining room and living room and  chair railing in the dining room.

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AFTER PICTURE

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This is just one option to be used when you want to divide up the rooms without actually doing so. This allows you to change up the paint colors or wall treatments for each room. You could also add in some full columns at the outside angled corner created by the soffit, or some short 1/2 walls with 1/2 columns if desired.

These pilasters were made with an applied panel moulding to give them a recessed panel look, along with a nice two piece chair railing. They could also be fluted above the chair rail with the panel below. I would like to have seen a nice shadow box panel moulding in the dining room on this particular project.

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Thank You, Roger Beesley

Mitre Contracting, Inc. - Finish Carpentry Specialist Since 1983