Hessian soldiers! Love them in brass. I hope you didn't move these yourself, on crutches!

Abbey Road brass!!

Love it!

So whimsical, I love it. Also stunning floors and rugs!

The floors are commercial Armstrong VCT.

Love them.

I like that they are the same, and all VA Metalcrafters, but not identical, and each one is in different condition. I would expect heavily lacquered brass to stay this way, my firedogs and so forth are all bright and they are 57 years old, but I guess environments differ.

The execution on those baseboards is incredibly impressive. Wow. How do you handle the edges of the drywall - or is that not drywall above?

So good!

Ally De,

The baseboards were quite a process.

The drywall has a metal bead at the bottom. The bottom of the drywall has to be cut so that it looks straight, and you have to figure out the best straight line to use because floors are usually not level.

The bottom of the baseboard has to be scribed to the floor so it does not have a gap. The base and the drywall have to be the same thickness. It takes installing baseboard in three rooms from hours to days.

Doorways were tricky because there is either a metal corner bead on an open doorway or a metal flush doorjamb, and bits of those had to be cut off to get the flush base to go right to the door.

The open doorways were finished with corner beads but capped with 1/4" birch because I wanted something more durable and easy to clean than an all drywall jamb.

I wanted stained baseboard in the living room, and this shows the jamb detail:

Here is the detail around a door.

You can also just do drywall all the way to the floor with a little reveal, but I did not want that because of cleaning and vacuuming the floors.

There is an apartment my sister and I are considering buying that has carpet on concrete, and I am going to put LVP in (I would use VCT but it will be a rental) and if the baseboard needs to be replaced I am honestly thinking rubber base. Minimal, very easy to clean, doesn't get banged up, doesn't collect dust on the edge, lets you put things right against the wall, disappears if the walls are the same color.

And that is the cat door at the bottom.

Do I love the flush base and the flush door jambs? Yes. Could I live through this process again? No.

The execution on those baseboards is incredibly impressive.

I can only imagine how much Pal appreciated that someone noticed this very special detail!

Thank you for the information. They are one of those things that you can tell require an attention to detail that most people either don't have, or don't value. Very nicely done.