Two women. One truck.
Twenty-five years.
ABOUT
That's not a slogan. It's the whole company.
Why Amber started this
Amber spent twenty-five years in the trade before Cowan Custom Finishing was Cowan Custom Finishing. Long enough to watch the same thing happen over and over—homeowners on this coast getting burned by contractors who didn't pick up the phone, didn't finish on time, and didn't stand behind the work once the check cleared.
She got tired of watching it.
So she built the crew she wished those homeowners could have hired. One that shows up when it said it would. One that quotes the real number the first time. One that treats every job like it's their own house—because half the time, they know the people who live in it.
That's the whole reason this company exists.
Not to be the biggest.
To be the one you don't regret calling.
Who you're actually hiring
It's Amber and LaNae. That's the crew. Not a rotating cast of subcontractors, not a sales rep who signs you and hands you off, not a different truck in your driveway every morning.
The person who walks your property and writes your bid is the same person who frames your deck and drives the last screw. Start to finish, same two hands.
Being a two-woman crew means Cowan takes fewer jobs than the big outfits. That's the trade. What you get for it is a company small enough that nothing falls through the cracks and experienced enough that it doesn't need to.
"I've had to be three times as good as the next guy to get a third of the credit. So we are."
1
Transparency isn't a feature. It's the whole point.
We put real prices on this website because you shouldn't have to invite a stranger to your kitchen table just to find out what something costs. Know before you call. That's how it should work.
2
The stuff you can't see is the stuff that matters.
Bear-skin flashing behind the siding. Concrete under every fence post. Double framing under the Trex. Nobody sees any of it once the job's done. We do it anyway, because we know what happens in year five if we don't.
3
We'd rather lose the job than do it wrong.
If your project is outside what we do well, we'll tell you and point you somewhere good. A job we shouldn't have taken helps nobody—least of all our reputation, which is the only thing that keeps a two-woman crew in business for twenty-five years.
What we believe about the work
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We rebuilt a cedar deck last year. Upper deck, lower deck, stairs, railings—the whole thing.
The client had recently lost her husband. He was a knot man. Rope work all over the property, tied by hand, built up over years. A few of them were still wrapped around the old railing posts.
We could have cut them off with the old lumber. Nobody would have said a word.
Instead we worked them loose, kept them safe through the entire build, and set them back onto the new posts before we finished. Same knots. New deck.
She cried when she saw them.
That's not something you can put in a bid. It's not a line item. But it's the reason we do this work the way we do it—because a deck isn't just boards, and the people who hire us aren't just clients.
WHY WE DO THIS