Baseboards are one of those things that you don't really notice… until you do. And once you start to notice all the dust, pet hair, and scuff marks that have accumulated along the bottom of your walls ...

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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.

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 ...

Having clean baseboards isn’t something that jumps out to a guest as making a house sparkle, but it certainly helps your home look better. Baseboards are solid wood or engineered wood material planks ...

Grab a sponge and bring those baseboards back to life.