Q: We just tore the carpet out of a bedroom of our recently purchased 1946 house in Richmond. Underneath are beautiful hardwood floors. There is a very plain and unobtrusive baseboard already in place ...

Note: For less flexible baseboard, the best solution is to simply fill any gaps with caulk. Select a premium acrylic latex caulk ($3-plus per tube) that says “paintable” on the label. Force the caulk ...

There are a zillion ways to add character to a plain apartment, but one of the simplest and most transformative has to be molding. We're talking crown molding at the top of the wall, baseboards at the ...

Intricate crown molding and baseboards—you know, the kind with scrollwork and dentils and multiple layers—are all well and good in a restored historic apartment in some romantic European city. But if ...

Dear Robin and Christian: I am slowly trying to update my home, which was built in the 1980s. I do most of the work myself but have a limited budget. Right now I am concentrating on molding. The house ...

Baseboards are so easy to overlook as just decorative trims in a room; however, they do serve a critical function in your home. Baseboards are the board or trim that runs along where the wall meets ...