Use a nail set and a hammer to ensure the heads of the nails are set below the surface of the baseboard. Fill all the nail ...

Installing baseboards in your home is a relatively straightforward way to spruce the place up a bit. And while the general process is easy enough for a do-it-yourself project, cutting the baseboards ...

Use paint stirrers, popsicle sticks, or any other thin flat material that you can nail through to shim the baseboard against the wall and snug up the miter. Slide the popsicle stick behind the bottom ...

The first pieces of baseboard you should install are along the walls where two inside corners meet. The easiest pieces to ...

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: ...

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