WalnutCreek - I found these today.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Treasure-Lamp-Crystal-Glass-Table-Lamps-Mid-Century-Modern-Hollywood-Regency/142712427767?hash=item213a52d4f7:g:UgoAAOSwX61ZBQYP

First, there is nothing political in being practical. And we here have come to ask practical questions for practical problems - building etc. Another purely practical problem I have faced is that asking companies or 'professionals' here has resulted in lost money and even a bigger mess with the subject of the service. In other words I have been driven to these western forums by practical reasons. So I am practical as well, not political. Capitalism is only a baseline economic system but culture permeates and twists all aspects of life in a given country incl. economic system, government type, juridical system, etc. Different cultures are not equally productive, are not equally scientific and are not equally progressive in the end. So professionals in USA of course are not the same as a professional in a developing countries. I've learned that the hard way because I have lived and worked in a far more developed country than mine for a while which was enough to draw solid conclusions that cultures is the key to success. I don't see any distinction between the 'left', the 'centric' and the 'right' political system wise, when all of their failures are much more driven by their cultural characteristics and behavior rather than their political orientation on the classical bipolar scale. https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/ To the point (before the topic gets deleted by a Mod): When less people demand quality, and even less are willing to pay anything (just like the case in my country) the market is not pushed to offer quality. Further, even if customers are more in number, you still cannot simply offer higher quality just because there is customer demand for services just because your culture is not "high quality". When your culture is "low quality" there are so many things that go wrong and market is only one of them.

Those pictures are of farmhouse style? Really? They look kind of froufrou to me, and in my book, farmhouses are simple, modest, utilitarian structures. But maybe now that traditional farms are pretty much dead, "farmhouse" is just another label for whatever some highly-paid interior designer thinks looks "traditional." I'm with the rest of the crew here. With 8' ceilings, that's no mansion you have there. Trying to make it look like one with fancy crown molding will just make it look like a parody of one. I say let your house be what its architect meant it to be. But that's just my opinion. It's your house, and if crown molding makes you happy, why not? I'd suggest the narrowest, simplest molding you can find. If the the next person who buys your house doesn't like it, they can always pry it off and patch the holes.

Just because its done in a pic doesn't mean it works. Base goes in AFTER floor no matter what and has nothing to do with shoe molding. The above is set up like a breadboard end on a table. The saddle most likely is rabbited and the floor mortised and floats inside the saddle or breadboard end. This takes care of movement. The floor to tile is an issue and the only way it could work is to use a flexible caulking. Most floors have a saddle or transition strip. You could use a traditional wood saddle and float it above both the tile and wood floor allowing movement underneath. You simply attach strip of wood thickness of floor under saddle and attach to floor. This would be cleanest way. If your on the West coast you probably have no idea what a saddle is.