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.

Nate Berkus seated on stage with a blue background - Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images Color has returned to interior residential design after years of beiges and grays. Paint is an easy and affordable way ...

DEAR DEBBIE: We are moving into a new house and the walls will be stark-white flat paint and the woodwork semigloss white paint. I hope to paint the walls in earth tones (soft clays and greens). Is ...

I'm not one who goes for a lot of frou-frou or fussy detail, but I do like a good moulding, especially when it has been applied in the correct proportion to the surrounding architecture. Mouldings are ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 85th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...