I have a whole folder of wainscot designs on Houzz Here's one from Fiorella [Traditional Dining Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-dining-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_722~s_2107) by San Francisco Interior Designers & Decorators Fiorella Design From Siena custom builders in IL [Traditional Dining Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-dining-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_722~s_2107) by Naperville Design-Build Firms Siena Custom Builders, Inc. Next up is the inspiration we're using for the house we're building, it's by Court Atkins and is a house on Daniel Island, somewhere close to Charleston. If you click on the link the moulding throughout this house is outstanding. [Traditional Dining Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-dining-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_722~s_2107) by Bluffton Architects & Designers Court Atkins Architects and one more [Traditional Dining Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-dining-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_722~s_2107) by Edmonton Home Stagers Revealing Assets - Home Staging Services If you type wainscotting into the search bar on Houzz, then when the results come up narrow your selections by room and choose dining room over on teh left side of the page you'll have more than enough examples to choose from. Good luck.

Sam Goh “I think we'll end up with some deep baseboards like ILR's example, just got to get the returns right because the baseboard is thicker than the door trim.” my casing is a flat board and a backband, trying to mimic old house trim. The backband is 1” thick. My baseboard is not as thick. So in places where there is no wainscoting there was no issue... The baseboard was thinner than the backband. However where I have wainscoting I was very concerned about how the returns would look since the baseboard was installed over the wainscoting...making the base thicker than the casing. My guy assured me it would look good. He 45’d the base off and it actually has a really nice, beefy profile. So your worry about the returns may be an easy fix.

rustic relating to the countryside; rural. made in a plain and simple fashion. If you don't like cedar shingles that turn gray with age then you shouldn't list "rustic" a goal. Painted clapboards and thin stone skirts aren't rustic. Nothing could look more rustic than cedar shakes that are hand split and have a very thick bottom edge and a stone foundation should stop at the bottom of the floor framing like a foundation normally does. What you have drawn looks decidedly suburban and developer-ish. The best finish for shakes is to have them factory dipped in a stain of any color you like but I wouldn't choose one as dark as the windows nor mix them with other claddings.

The layout I believe would work best would NOT be an L formation as earlier mentioned. I do think it’s perfectly okay to place a couch back along the stair wall, and would do that, with another couch of the same dimensions facing it, placed along the sliding glass door of the living area. You have three sliding glass doors in that room, and will never use or need all three. It doesn’t make sense to do so. I would leave the center SGD available for easy flow, and arrange your furniture the way it works best in front of the other two SGD. If you do an L formation in the living room, it drastically limits the flow in that area. I would recommend instead to use two couches facing each other, one backed up to the SGD and the other to the stair wall. Then you could even float another short couch or two arm chairs in the center, directly facing the FP, if you wanted. Also love your color choices and the use of headboard or board and batten, as well as the painted kitchen cabinets. I am in the process right now of replacing all my kitchen cabinet doors with newly sprayed white shaker door fronts after already painting all the boxes, and it has completely transformed my space. This is the second home that I’ve done this in and the results are well worth the effort/and/or expense! It will be a lovely room when you’re finished.