Affordable Home Repair and Maintenance Services

Colorado Proud Small Business

The Ernest Carpenter is small couple-owned and operated business, and we appreciate the opportunity to serve you. Ran by a wife and husband team, we can offer a perspective and expertise that many handyman companies cannot.

Ernest is a skilled carpenter with 25 years of varied carpentry and handyman experience, including painting, light plumbing and electrical, feature walls, and interior and exterior trim carpentry, and finishing work, and more! Mandi has been in the construction and infrastructure industry for over 20 years, with experience in juggling project management on larger scale projects, like full basement finishes.

We have the expertise to help you with your varied home improvement needs, or just tackle items on your Honey-Do List. We're insured, and have quick availability. From painting, to carpentry and nearly everything in between, including light plumbing, and electrical installs, we can make your next remodel a breeze!

Service at a Fair Price

Whether you need a new light installed, a faucet replaced, a closet system designed and installed, or a large home improvement project tackled, The Ernest Carpenter will deliver professional skills at a fair price. It is our highest priority to get the job done right the first time on every assignment.

For the best price possible, you would handle the obtainment and pick up the materials, and we will install once all the materials are on site.

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Expert Home Improvement Services

Experienced Craftsman

Ernest was a Senior Installer at The Closet Factory for nearly a decade. He assisted in the design, and completed the install of 1000's of custom closets, desk units, pantry's, garage units, and more. As Senior Installer he was responsible for installing high-end designs in multi-million dollar homes, multiple Parade of Homes installs, as well as to the annual Colorado Garden and Home Show. If you have a closet system or garage unit you need installed, Ernest is the right choice!

As a finish carpenter, Ernest loves to add those finishing touches that really make a house a home! It is amazing what adding certain features such as base, trim and crown moulding can do for a home. You can take design even a step further and add tons of character to your home with a custom designed board and batten, shiplap or wainscoting, feature wall. What's old is new again, so breathe new life into your space by adding some rich old-school design.

Often organizational solutions requires assembly; whether it's IKEA, Wayfair, Amazon, American Furniture warehouse, or others, if it needs to be assembled, Ernest is the man for the job! He calls them giant erector sets, and he loves building!

Ernest fine-tuned his carpentry skills when he worked for FW Manufacturing as a hospitality furniture builder. There he built a large variety of different furniture, including headboards, nightstands, media boards, wardrobes, coffee tables, tv consoles, and more! In addition, he can also install it and make repairs. Since our foundation, we've added 100s of furniture builds to our resume, so give us a call today!

Expert design Services

Designing Your Space

Prior to founding The Ernest Carpenter, Mandi worked for a basement finishing company in Centennial CO as a project manager. She would oversee projects from start to finish, walking the basements for both rough and final inspections to ensure all tasks were accomplished to specifications. She developed the flow and structure to ensure each project had as little down-time as possible, allowing the basement finishing company to go from one basement per month, to between six and eight basements per month with the same staff.

Mandi has been working in infrastructure, real estate and construction fields for the past 25 years. She also handles the architectural sketches, design concepts for our feature walls, and larger interior design projects that require a keen eye and accurate planning. As the project manager she keeps the projects flowing on time and on budget.

Mandi can find organizational solutions for you, design them for your space, and your stuff, and work around a budget. She utilizes a variety of different options depending on your space to maximize as much as possible, while still making it workable. She can design closet spaces, storage areas, or garage units, just give us a call, and we will put some solutions together.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at the.ernest.carpenter@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

How can I schedule a date for you to come see my project?

We try to respond to service requests within 24-48 hours, but using our handy bid scheduling tool in our Booking tab allows you to find the best day for you. If you prefer a day time appointment, please fill out the form at, and can schedule a time a time that works for you.

Do you provide materials and supplies?

We are happy to guide you on what to purchase if you have questions. We are also happy to shop for you (in store or on-line), and depending on the extent, we may charge a fee for that service. We will shop based on your specifications, and the perimeter of the scope of work, budgetary needs and overall design outcome. The client is responsible for all purchases, or the cost after. If the materials costs are expected to be over $50 we will collect a downpayment for materials.

What about the pickup or delivery of materials?

If you need help with transporting materials, or picking them up from the store or warehouse, we can help! Depending on the size of the material pack, we may opt to have the items delivered directly to the job site. For store pick-up, we will direct you on the best course of action for the obtainment of materials for the project, unless you have already handled that portion.

If we have a larger job that requires drywall or lumber, we will usually opt for delivery. We will be one site for all deliveries.

What comes next?

We schedule a time to come out and look at your project, take measurements, and then we put together a bid, and materials list. We always try to keep your budget in mind, so please be sure to let us know what you are working with so we can come up with a solution that fits within your needs. We handle jobs both big and small, so we hope that we can help!