Installing flush baseboards for your modern home is an art. In this video, Matt Risinger, master builder shows us how to do flush baseboards. Most houses have the baseboard added on top of the sheetrock. Instead, consider a flush or recessed baseboard. At this building site, the drywall stage is beginning. This is the first place where you can see where the recessed base is going to go into the house. On the stairway to the second floor, instead of doing skirt boards, we're going to recess them. First, the finish carpenters put in the locations where that base is going. Plywood is screwed into the studs for a reference point for the drywall guys to hang the drywall to that plywood.At the bottom of the sheetrock we had to finish that off with a trim piece. This makes a really nice shadow line of the gap before the baseboard gets put down after the trim is installed. The next step is to install the flooring all the way under the sheetrock, a longer distance than normal, so it needs to be installed very early. The next step is doing a recessed or flush base, in this case a 1 x 6. Here, we're using Windsor, a pre-primed pine. Poplar is also good. We put a cut into the back of the base that makes up for that extra eighth-inch gap. The 5/8-inch sheetrock needs to mate up with 3/4-inch trim. We put a curve down in the back and that transition is beautiful without quarter rounds or additional moldings. It's a flush a contemporary look and the craftsmanship is second to none here