The rooms we are built for.
Five hours up I-84
Boise has a Catholic cathedral from the 1920s, an Episcopal cathedral from 1902 and a Methodist landmark from 1960, and the Treasure Valley has grown a ring of suburban sanctuaries around them. We are the nearest restoration crew, and we come up in blocks.
The Treasure Valley is the fastest-growing church market in the Northwest and has few dedicated pew restoration companies anywhere near it. We are five hours away, and Boise is a natural block with Twin Falls and the Magic Valley.
The buildings
Downtown Boise is a restoration market. Meridian, Nampa and Eagle are a reupholstery market. We do both on one trip.
The North End and downtown hold the old stock: the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist finished in 1921, St. Michael's Episcopal from 1902, First Presbyterian, and the Methodist and Lutheran sanctuaries from the streetcar years. Solid wood, a century on the finish, and a recoat from the seventies gone dull. Those rooms need a refresh or a refinish, done by hand and with the patina kept.
Everything west of the Connector is post-war and post-boom: Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagle, Kuna and Star, built from the sixties through the 2010s. The wood is fine. The foam went flat years ago. A week or two per room, and several rooms in a block.
Then the mining and river towns within an hour — Idaho City, Silver City, Emmett, Weiser — with 1860s and 70s sanctuaries and original pews nobody has touched.
How a Boise block runs
Also serving Garden City, Eagle, Star, Kuna, Middleton, Emmett, Mountain Home and Ontario, Oregon.
Sunday. If your sanctuary is not service-ready by 6 a.m. Sunday, that week's labor is free. The carve-outs are written next to it: weather that closes the road, delays on the church's side, and events already on the calendar when we scheduled.
Ten years. If a seam opens, a finish lifts or a repair fails because of how we did the work, we come back and make it right. Transferable to whoever runs the building next.
The spec. What we quote is what goes in — foam, fabric and finish named in the contract, data sheets in your file.
Local questions
As often as the calendar fills. Boise pairs naturally with Twin Falls and Pocatello, so a single church in the Treasure Valley rarely waits long for a block. Tell us your timing and we will tell you the earliest week.
Travel is on the quote as its own line: the real cost of fuel, lodging and the days on the road, never buried in the per-foot rate. On a typical sanctuary it works out to a few percent of the job. A company mobilizing from North Carolina or New York is carrying the same cost across three times the distance and hiding it in the number.
Where we can pair your job with another in the region, the travel line drops, and we will tell you if waiting a month gets you that.
Yes. We will try to schedule it with other visits in your area, which can mean a short wait, and we will tell you the date before you agree to anything. If you would rather not wait, four photos and a pew count by email gets you a written range in two days, no drive required.
Meetinghouse maintenance runs through the Church's Facilities Management groups and their approved vendors, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. If your FM group is looking for a crew that works on site across the Intermountain West, we would like to be on the list — hello@bethelfinishworks.com reaches Shawn directly.
Two hours in your sanctuary, every pew photographed and graded, one section refinished while you watch, and a written three-tier budget. Free, no drive charge, and yours whether or not you hire us. Or email four photos and a pew count to hello@bethelfinishworks.com for a written range in two days.
What we do