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 ...

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 ...

Q–I am going to install a wood chair-rail molding around the walls of my dining room, using an attractive molding with a contour similar to that of a baseboard molding. My problem is trying to get a ...

Q: I bought a fixer house and want to dress it up a bit. The baseboard is the cheap builder-grade stuff, but I want to put in taller baseboards with a more noticeable profile. How hard it this? A: ...

Measure the linear feet of the walls to be installed with baseboard. To be safe with your calculations and account for any bad cuts, always purchase 10% more material than measured to avoid returning ...

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 ...