Damaged molding along the floors and ceilings of your home need replacing, but some moldings are very ornate, especially if the house is old. Here’s how to use a simple tool to capture the profile of ...

Note: For less flexible baseboard, the best solution is to simply fill any gaps with caulk. Select a premium acrylic latex caulk ($3-plus per tube) that says “paintable” on the label. Force the caulk ...

Looking around your home and thinking you would like a change? Then you look at your budget and are thinking about a challenge? Well, we have some thoughts for you that won’t break the bank. Our ideas ...

Q: I have vinyl flooring in my kitchen. Around the perimeter of the room, I would like to install some vinyl base molding so that the entire thing is washable. Is this any different from installing ...

Whether bold and beautiful or elegant and understated, accent walls are all the rage in home decor right now. There are so ...

Sometimes it’s the simplest details that make the most striking visual impact, and wall molding offers the perfect example. This design detail has a long history, dating all the way back to the 1700s ...

There are a zillion ways to add character to a plain apartment, but one of the simplest and most transformative has to be molding. We're talking crown molding at the top of the wall, baseboards at the ...

Dear Robin and Christian: I am slowly trying to update my home, which was built in the 1980s. I do most of the work myself but have a limited budget. Right now I am concentrating on molding. The house ...

Want to add elegance and flair to a room? Nothing dresses up a space like the presence of crown molding. And although it's easy to install, crown molding is actually one of the most-feared home ...

The surefire way to begin modernizing an older house used to be to rip out the moldings. After all, such ornate embellishments were characteristic of one's great-grandfather's house. They were ...