What is "baseboards"

Usage examples of "baseboards".

The rain trickles down through the house, and everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust.

I peered in and found Tommy on his hands and knees, touching up the baseboards with a brush and a can of white latex paint.

I wiped down the walls, scrubbed the baseboards and floors until the soapy water turned a frothy pink.

The baseboards and cupboard door, as well, were obviously scavenged wood from some lot or estate sale.

The window was trimmed with it, and the baseboards had once been the horizontal slabs for the horse stall.

The whole of it smelled like mildew, and I suspected at night wee creatures scuttled around the baseboards after all the lights were turned off.

I unscrewed the heater vent and tapped along the baseboards listening for hollow spots.

I tried the kitchen first, tapping along the baseboards for the sound of hollow spaces.