When buying baseboards in the past, you only had just one choice: natural wood, usually pine or hemlock. Now, the choice of materials for baseboards and trim has expanded to include MDF and plastic.

If your home comes with standard 3-inch baseboard molding and you'd like to have a more luxurious trim without having to dispose of your current perfectly-good molding you can simply add a line of ...

Wood trim is supposed to provide a finishing touch to a room. But it doesn’t always work out so neatly. And if you’ve ever tried to install trim and been frustrated by a poor fit where two pieces meet ...

When it comes to cleaning your moldings, chances are the task falls into the “out of sight, out of mind” category, and you aren’t doing it enough. Because if you can’t see the dirt, it isn’t really ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Why is it that baseboards need to be covered in dirt and grime before we even notice that they need to be cleaned? If ...

Last weekend, I had the good fortune to show my son how to install wood baseboard and interior door casing. We’re in the final stages of finishing over 1,000 square feet of living space in the ...

I'm not one who goes for a lot of frou-frou or fussy detail, but I do like a good moulding, especially when it has been applied in the correct proportion to the surrounding architecture. Mouldings are ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 85th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

Grab a sponge and bring those baseboards back to life.