No more dusty baseboards

by Kathryn Bressem
(Hercules, CA)

I painted a coat of water soluble (for easy clean up) varathane onto the top of all my baseboard (where it meets the wall).

I found it was the caulk attracting all that dust and not letting it go even when going over them with a rag.

Now, the dust doesn't even accumulate. Now if I could just kill off my dust bunnies...

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