Thursday, March 11, 2010

How to Cut Baseboard Molding on the Wall

March 4, 2010 by admin  
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Most baseboard molding cuts are made before the molding is installed, but occasionally it is necessary to make a cut to installed molding. While removing the entire section of molding from the wall and then cutting and re-installing the molding is an option, it’s not always the most efficient in time or effort. Instead, you [...]

How to Cut Wood Baseboard Molding

March 3, 2010 by admin  
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Installing interior baseboard molding can seem a daunting task when taken as a whole. But in the end, it’s only a matter of a few simple cuts and accurate measurements. While it may take a little practice, cutting wood baseboard molding is the easy part. Once you’ve gotten the hang of it, a project that [...]

How to Fix Hardwood Floors Separating From the Baseboards

March 1, 2010 by admin  
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Hardwood floors are a natural product and as such tend to expand and contract when exposed to home variables such as temperature, humidity and moisture vapor emission. Because of these tendencies, hardwood floors require an expansion area around the edges of a room where the hardwood meets the baseboard of the wall. If you are [...]

Carpet Reveals Beautiful Floors

February 6, 2010 by admin  
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So you pulled up some wall-to-wall carpeting and the floor is beautiful.
Removing wall-to-wall carpeting can reveal beautiful hardwood floors, but it can also reveal a mess on your baseboards.
This baseboard was painted with carpeting in place so it has a raised lip of dried paint that needs to be removed and touched up before it [...]

Incorporating A Formal Look To Home Design

January 11, 2010 by admin  
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For those who absolute adore the looks of formal hotels and buildings, you may wish you could translate such extravagant elegance into your own home. Beautiful wood floors, intricately carved walls and ceilings, or deep baseboard moldings may be the features you admire in formal homes. But there are several things that you can change [...]

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