Manish Gera
Owner and head of finishing
Reads the finish schedule, sets the system and signs off every board.
Cabinet and millwork finishing · Denver
Cabinet and millwork finishing for the people who specify it
Gera Millwork Finishing sprays doors, drawer fronts, panels and trim in a Denver shop, to the color and sheen on your finish schedule. Start with a board, not a proposal.
Where do you start?
Designers and architects
Builders and cabinet shops
Finish boards
See the finish on your substrate before a door is sprayed
A board is a sprayed panel on the material your job uses, with the color, sheen and system written on the back. Four sets go out most often, and we match a sample you send.
Set AWhites and creams
Warm and cool whites at each sheen, on painted-grade substrates.
Set BGreys and greiges
From pale stone to charcoal, so a run can be compared side by side.
Set CDeep colors
Navy, green and near-black, where the substrate prep shows most.
Set DStained and glazed wood
Maple, walnut and oak tones, with and without a glaze.
The shop
A shop built around the finish, not the carpentry
Your cabinet maker or millwork shop builds the work. We take it from raw or factory primed to finished: degrease, fill, sand, seal, spray and cure, then rack it for delivery.
Nine people work here, split between the spray line, prep and the install crew. A question goes to the person who will do the work.
What comes through the door
Doors, drawer fronts, panels and trim
Stair parts, mantels and built-ins
Racked, wrapped and labeled by room
Shop or site
Where the finish happens changes what you get
Most jobs use two of these. Here is what each gives you and what it asks of the house.
| Compare | In our shop | Sprayed on site | Brushed and rolled in place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dust and debris | In our shopControlled booth air; the house stays clean | Sprayed on siteMasking and ventilation; rooms are closed off | Brushed and rolled in placeLittle overspray; brush and roller marks are part of the look |
| Consistency across a run | In our shopSame booth, same batch, same cure for every door | Sprayed on siteVaries with the room and the weather | Brushed and rolled in placeVaries by hand; best for a few pieces |
| Cure time | In our shopCures on racks, off your schedule | Sprayed on siteCures in place; the room waits | Brushed and rolled in placeCures in place and slowly |
| Handling risk | In our shopDoors move twice, so racking and wrapping matter | Sprayed on siteNothing moves | Brushed and rolled in placeNothing moves |
| Good for | In our shopNew doors, full refinishes, runs of identical doors | Sprayed on siteLarge built-ins that can't come out | Brushed and rolled in placeTouch-up and small repairs |
Sign-off
Where we look before a profile leaves the shop
Three places on one casing, and what gets checked at each.
- 1
The gilt line
Checked under raking light for a clean edge and an even sheen against the paint beside it.
- 2
The carved corbel
Glaze sits in the recesses and is wiped from the high points, so the carving still reads.
- 3
The fluting
Flutes are sanded with a profiled block, so the shadow lines stay crisp under the last coat.
The crew
The people you will talk to
Each name below does the work, from the proposal to the last coat.
Essie Braxton
Trade accounts and estimating
Writes proposals against your schedule and answers the trade line.
Kassandra Briones
Lead finisher
Runs the spray line and matches existing finishes by eye and by drawdown.
Mingyu Yoon
Finisher, glaze and stain
Does the hand-wiped and glazed work.
Clark Griffin
Install and touch-up lead
Delivers, sets and touches up on site with a punch list in hand.
From the trade
What the people who specify us say
“The board matched the sample I sent, and the doors matched the board. That is all I ask of a finisher.”
Anastasiya P.Interior designer
“Doors came racked and labeled by room, so my install crew never had to sort them.”
Junior P.Project manager, residential builder
“The proposal came back in the numbering of our finish schedule, line for line.”
Murat A.Architect
Sample reviews.
Denver metro
Doors travel, site work stays close
Shop finishing covers the whole metro. On-site touch-up and install-day work stays inside the neighborhoods below.
- Denver: Sloan's Lake, Jefferson Park, RiNo, Curtis Park, Country Club, Belcaro, Observatory Park, University Park, Bear Valley, Southmoor, Central Park
- Jefferson County: Belmar, Dakota Ridge, Genesee, Indian Hills, Mountain View
- Arapahoe County: Columbine Valley
We don't do on-site work north of Brighton or in the mountains west of Genesee. Doors finished in the shop can travel: ask us to quote freight.
Questions
Before you send a schedule
Do you build the cabinets or the millwork?
No. Your cabinet maker or millwork shop builds it. We finish new work and refinish existing doors, drawer fronts, panels and trim.
Can you match a finish we already have?
Yes, from a door, a drawer front or a physical sample. We spray a board and you approve it in writing; matching is by eye and by sample, so the approved board matters more than a paint code.
Do you work in the shop or on site?
Doors, drawer fronts and panels are finished in the shop. Boxes, built-ins and trim that can't come out are finished or touched up on site, inside the neighborhoods on our service-area list.
How long are doors in the shop?
Plan on two to three weeks from delivery to ready. A large count, a deep color or a catalyzed system can take longer. Your proposal names the range for your job.
Homes built before 1978: how is lead paint handled?
Federal rules cover paid work that disturbs paint in homes and child-occupied buildings built before 1978. Most of our work is new doors finished in the shop, which doesn't touch old paint. Doors or trim pulled from an older home are handled under the EPA's lead-safe work practices; tell us the age of the house when you send them. The firm's certification number is in the license line at the bottom of every page.
What does the warranty cover?
The finish on work we sprayed. Terms, limits and exclusions are in your written warranty.
Request finish boards
Tell us what is being finished
Name the finish, the substrate and the date you need approval. Essie Braxton replies in shop hours.
Shop(720) 555-0102
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Hours
- Monday – FridayToday
- 7 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Saturday and SundayToday
- Closed