Baseboards — those six to eight inches rising from where a wall meets the floor — are easy to overlook in your kitchen cleaning routine. Not only are they way below eye-level, but baseboards don’t ...

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.

Dear Debbie: 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 ...