A schedule that keeps things spotless.

Plus, how often you should be cleaning them. Why is it that baseboards need to be covered in dirt and grime before we even notice that they need to be cleaned? If this is your experience, too, know ...

Dark, shadowy, dirty lines on the carpet along baseboards, under doors and draperies, along the edges and in the crevices of carpeted stairs are visible signs of a problem called filtration soil. With ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Liudmila Chernetska/Getty Images After a messy, frigid winter, my baseboards (and probably yours) are, in a word, gross.