Sluice, If you look at some of the older threads from Jan Slama, you will see that a lot of the broom material he grafts doesn't appear in best of health, but he can find enough good scion to get some great plants out of them. Attention to needle cleaning etc can keep the grafted plant healthy My thought is if you have the rootstock graft anything interesting to you. Dax and others have noted that the grafted plant can often take a different form than the broom so until a graft has been grown out, you just don't know. I have a few things that I have found and propagated or others have propagated for me and I have special affection for those plants. I just started conifer grafting. I think that my grafts from this year are going to do great. A few are starting to push. Thanks for the pictures, keith

I am having transoms in my new build and our builder said transoms should be around half as tall as there are wide. If you have 30 inch wide transom, it would look best with it being 15 inches high. That is just a bench mark, but I would not go either way too much.

There is a huge variety of rugs available to match any budget or setting so your options are wide open. You just need to figure out what features are more important to you, ie material, wearability, pricing. We don't have kids but we have animals and didn't want to invest a lot into a rug that may not wear well. I found a huge variety at of all places, Home Depot. We ultimately got this one for under 400.00 for a 10x12. One of the great things about it is it cleans easy, it's nice to walk on and it's wearing exceptionally well. It's made by Mohawk and is polypropolene. The lighter coloring really brought life to our fairly dark space.

All depends on number and the locations of the lights. Also what lights you intended to use every place else. 5" would look nice, but if every place else you have 4", or 3" 5" will look out of place.