Archives For Baseboards

large mdf white painted moldingTraditional Style

A Doric baseboard straight from Andrea Palladio’s First Book of Architecture.

You can use this powerful baseboard to serve as the foundation of your traditional style home’s architectural treatments.

Best of all it’s really easy to install.  I’ll show you how!

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victorian farmhouse baseboard moldings diyVictorian Style

As much as your home needs a solid structural foundation, it also needs a solid visual foundation inside.  This large baseboard, a simplified version of one I found in a Victorian mansion in Detroit (more on that later), will give your home the interior foundation it needs.

It’s made from two common pieces of MDF molding.  Plan to upgrade your door trim moldings if you install this baseboard.

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craftsman style large baseboard detroit metroCraftsman/Prairie Style

I love the angular steps of this baseboard design.  It’s like Falling Water, but without the water, kind of.

I based it on one of Frank Loyd Wright’s baseboards, but from which home I don’t remember.

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