Surfaces, made by hand
Resurfaced Colorado is a Denver metro surfacing contractor. Floors, countertops, and wall pieces, all of it finished by the same hands. Two partners, one shop. Matt builds the art pieces and the decorative floors. Ray builds the furniture, the countertops, and the finish carpentry.
Matt Rinn
Matt is a Colorado artist and woodworker whose work turns reclaimed and natural material into furniture, sculpture, and dimensional wall art. It is rooted in a respect for the character already in the material: the grain, the burl, the wormholes, the cracks, and the history.
For Matt the process is about more than making something beautiful. It is about giving a tree a second beginning.
He moved to Colorado after graduating from James Madison University in 1997 and spent several years in the mountains, teaching snowboarding in Beaver Creek before starting on the work he does now. In 2003 he began building artwork and exploring what wood could be pushed to do. A passion for making turned into a career defined by experimentation, craftsmanship, and a stubborn interest in pieces that cannot be reproduced.
How the work is made
Over the years Matt developed a style that puts traditional woodworking next to methods most shops do not touch. Hand planers, carving tools, angle grinders, scorching, fractal burning, epoxy, layered materials, and natural finishes. The results show both the raw power and the refined side of the material, and they lean into the things other makers sand out: the burn marks, the voids, the movement, the flaws that give a piece its identity.
That instinct is the same one that shows up in a metallic epoxy floor. You are working a liquid that will only be workable for a short window, the pattern comes out of how you move it, and it is finished once. There is no undo. It is the reason the decorative floors and the wall pieces come out of the same shop.
What we build
The work ranges from sculptural live edge furniture and custom dining tables to large scale three dimensional wall art, architectural installations, illuminated pieces, signage, and commissions for homes and businesses. Each one is designed and built individually, and no two come out the same.
The work has been shown in galleries, businesses, boutiques, restaurants, and art festivals across Colorado and the Southwest. Matt took Best of Woodworking at the Castle Rock Art Festival in 2024, shows at festivals around the state and beyond, and has been covered in regional publications and artist interviews.
“Every tree has a story. My job is to help it begin its next chapter.”
The goal is the same whether it is a garage slab or a walnut slab: find what is already in the material and turn it into something that lasts, something you can live with and hand on.
Ray Sample
Ray builds the furniture and the finish work. Custom pieces, architectural woodwork, and the interior trim that has to line up with everything already in the room.
He works in hardwood and sources and mills it himself. Live edge black walnut is the material he keeps coming back to, usually as the one piece a room ends up arranged around. He also sits down with the layout before anything is cut, because a table that is right in the shop can still be wrong in the room.
The carpentry runs the whole way through, from framing and structural prep at one end to fine trim and floating installations at the other. Nothing gets handed between two trades halfway.
Ray on resin
Countertops are poured to take heat, scratches, and a dropped pan. Kitchens, bars, and commercial counters, where the surface gets used rather than looked at.
River tables are deep pour work. Clear or pigmented resin cast against live edge lumber, bubble free, in one window. Color blending and metallic pigment where the piece calls for it, then a UV stable topcoat in gloss or satin. Same rule as the floors: the pattern comes out of how it is moved, and it is finished once.
He also does the unglamorous half. Resurfacing and sealing wood that is already in the house, stone look epoxy finishes, and built in fixtures made to fit one opening and no other.
The process
The same five steps whether it is a three car garage or a bar top.
- 01
Consultation
We look at the actual slab. Square footage, moisture, cracks, what is already on it, and what you want the room to do. The estimate comes from that, not from a phone call.
- 02
Design
Colour, finish, and the amount of movement you want in the material. For decorative work we get specific here, because this is the part that cannot be changed later.
- 03
Preparation
Diamond grinding, crack repair, joint treatment, and moisture testing. It is the least photogenic day of the job and the one that decides whether the floor lasts.
- 04
Application
Primer, build coats, and topcoat, installed in sequence with the cure times the manufacturer actually specifies rather than the ones that fit a faster schedule.
- 05
Reveal
We walk the finished floor with you, cover care and cure times, and tell you when it can take furniture and vehicles.
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