Whole-Home Renovation
Stairs, trimand floorsone schedule, whole house.
Nobody compliments a trim schedule. But it is the reason one renovated house feels coherent and another feels patched.
In detail
Stairs, trim & floors
Doors, casings, baseboard, window surrounds and stair details are drawn as a single schedule for the whole house rather than decided floor by floor. Profiles are chosen to suit the age and character of the building — a 1920s colonial and a 1960s split want different answers, and neither wants whatever the supplier had in stock. Reveals are consistent, heights line through between rooms, and the schedule is set before anything is ordered.
Flooring runs continuously wherever the structure allows, which usually means no threshold strips between rooms on the same level and no change of direction at a doorway. Where existing boards are being kept and extended, new material is woven in and the whole floor refinished together so the join disappears. Stairs get particular attention because they are the one element everybody touches: treads, risers, balustrade and handrail rebuilt or restored to a standard that matches the rest of the work.
What this covers
- A single trim and door schedule drawn for the whole house
- Profiles chosen to suit the age and character of the building
- Flooring run through without thresholds where structure allows
- Stairs rebuilt or restored — treads, risers, balustrade and rail
- Part of
- Whole-Home Renovation
- Typical timeline
- 3–9 months
- Where
- All 21 New Jersey counties
Questions
Asked most aboutstairs, trim & floors
Can new flooring be woven into existing boards?
Usually, yes. New material is laced into the existing field rather than butted against it, then the whole floor is sanded and finished together so there is no visible join and no colour step. It takes longer than laying a new floor over the top and is the difference between a renovation and an overlay.
Do the stairs have to be replaced in a gut renovation?
Not necessarily. An original stair is often worth restoring — the joinery is frequently better than anything available now. What does need attention is anything that no longer meets code on rise, run, headroom or guard height where the stair is being altered, and that is assessed once demolition exposes the structure around it.
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