I appreciate the replies! The rest of the room has dark wood trim on the doors, windows, some ledge trim, and vanity. The existing dark wood baseboard will come out and tile floor will meet tile wainscot. We have an existing light floor tile and I am using a complementary porcelain tile for the shower, vanity top, and wainscot. I am leaning to trying the stained chair rail to tie the woods together and not introduce a new material, painted wood, into the room. If the rest of the wood was painted, and I wish it was, I would paint the chair rail. I'll probably go ahead with it. If I don't like the end result, I can always remove the chair rail and install the ordinary bullnose tiles. Thanks for the input.

Hi Barb5, No, I am not a carpenter--I'm a technology specialist at an elementary school. I started with the Golden Triangle but ended up making some very small adjustments. On the stairwell, the margins are equal above, below, and inbetween. I used a 3x5 notecard as a spacer and drew everything out on the wall. The moulding is from Lowes--the chair rail is actually two pieces--a flat piece that has two grooves near each edge and another piece that has a curvy profile--they are pine and are pre-primed. The boxes are made of picture frame moulding that I must admit are pvc because it was so light and easy to cut. Here is the dining room. The chair rail is similar, but I added a smaller piece of moulding that the book referred to as a subrail. Again, I used a 3x5 card as a spacer. I started off trying to employ the Golden Triangle but all four walls are different in length from each other so the "boxes" vary in size on each wall--I don't think anyone would notice it unless I pointed it out! Under the windows, the boxes are the same width each window with a tall skinny one inbetween. If you need a close up of the dining room or stairs, let me know and I can take a couple more pictures. In both pictures, they look really white but is painted BM Cloud White which is a pretty creamy white that looks beautiful in candlelight! I am redoing a bathroom and think about adding crown moulding--this is something I haven't attempted yet! Nancy

I posted above 2 months ago and I want to update now that we've laid eyes on Wolf Classic white painted cabinets. The headline for me is "thank goodness we chose a great contractor". We signed up with a big operation that must do a lot of work with Wolf. They inspected every cabinet at their shop prior to bringing them to the job site (our home) and I've learned there were a few that were damaged and sent back for replacement. Some of the replacement cabinets even showed up damaged and had to be replaced. All in, the quality of the cabinet is not great but we are lucky enough to have a good contractor that's making all the door / drawer adjustments and will touch up all the paint imperfections, of which there are many. We ordered white painted and so they're bound to have flaws vs a stained cabinet which would probably be less delicate. However, as other reviewers noted, you would expect better quality for the money. I can not in good conscience refer you to Wolf Classic but I could refer you to our contractor if you're in the Atlanta area. We purchased cabinets from Cabinets.com for a basement remodel 2 yrs ago and based on our observations the Cabinets.com product is better. Key differences to note, white painted wolf classic doors are MDF and supposedly will hold the painted finish better over time because contraction and expansion is reduced. Cabinets.com are maple doors, cabinet interior is nicer, they use blum soft close hardware and they didn't show up damaged. Of course there are many cabinet brands to consider but at a similar price point Cabinets.com appears to be a better product. Wish we would've considered them again or another brand. Having said all that, our kitchen project is going to look great when it's done but I doubt they'll look great in 10 years. Definitely no comparison to the quality of the 80's cabinets we just had ripped out. Reach out if you have any follow up questions.

All these photos are beautiful!! I still haven't figured out how to use the photo gallery on here very well...I searched under "red rooms" but got nothing. ? Have to look into it further. dixiedo - Very nice! I LOVE Swiss Coffee...I have that in my home now. My builder uses BM - "White Atrium" or "Atrium White" (I forget which?!) seems to be the BM equivalent of Swiss Coffee. :) A very nice, warm and cozy white. :) Thank you for your photo! newhomebuilder - Nice! Thank you. I really like your Olive colored dining room as well. Is that a tray ceiling or cathedral in there? Looks great! Love the faux wainscoting! Does look real! I like red rooms....I too think they look very garnished with white but was second-guessing myself with the white faux wainscoting. I think I will go for it now! :) What do you both think I should do about the tray in the ceiling? I think leave it white as I cannot imagine red on the ceiling...might be too much! Thank you for your suggestions/advice. You have helped me a lot.