Baseboard molding is the wood trim that runs around the perimeter of the wall at floor level. It serves as a decorative accent; it also conceals the expansion joint between the edge of a wood floor ...

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 ...

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 ...