There is an aluminum plate included. You can put a piece of baseboard on it. You can see this quite well in a picture in the kitchen catalog. You can also completely omit the aluminum plate and stick the baseboard on the back with a piece of foil. The aluminum plate actually just makes it unnecessarily expensive. Edge banding is included with the baseboard. I would also overall choose a closed base; otherwise, there will be problems with the dishwasher. An open base with a drawer in between, in my opinion, looks sh... too.