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 ...

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 ...

You put a lot of effort into cutting clean miters and coping tricky corners, yet the wrong glue choice can quietly undo that work and leave your baseboards gapping or popping away from the wall. The ...

Q: We are moving into a new house, and the walls will be stark-white flat paint and the woodwork semi-gloss white paint. I hope to paint the walls in earth tones (soft clays and greens). Is there any ...

Question: I have some time on my hands and would like to do a few home projects. What are some simple ones I can do without breaking the bank? Answer: There are quite a few. For example, changing ...

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 ...