The weight of nuts, if there are too many, can affect the rise. With well developed, strong gluten in a white bread, you can get away with a lot and still get a good rise. With a less strong dough, I've managed up to about 20% of the weight of the flour in non-glutenous add ins, but none as heavy as whole nuts. Chopped would be better. For finely ground nuts, the texture of meal or flour, again, about 20% of the weight of the flour works fine. More than that might be possible, if you want to experiment. However you do it, don't substitute for any of the flour. Just add.

Im not sure what your meaning of (quote) " down feather dacron wrap". You can wrap foam with bonded low-melt dacron fiber, but I wouldnt recommend that as it will eventually compress/flatten leaving a wrinkled cushion, more so if you add swells on the cut-cover. Better to make a envelope (which is not a wrap) that has channels using down-proof ticking if your using feathers. If just fiber filled then you can use a cheaper option a non-woven material. Either way, The boxing or border for the envelope should finish the same height as the thickness of the foam. Then your fabric cover border should finish 1/2" less. The swells should be on all 4 sides of the cut cover and ( from .375 to .650) depending on the added thickness of the filled envelope. These swells should not be arched, the swell should start and arch within the first 2-3 inches of the end and go straight across to within the last 2-3 inches of the opposite end and then arch back down to the edge. Measuring from edge to edge off the foam, the cut cover should be 1" bigger; Meaning half inch seams, All the way around. Oh and the envelope should finish 1 1/2" bigger than the foam; measuring side to side and front to back.

Hi. Our ceilings are 9’ and we came into the house after the first room had the baseboards in…the builder had put in 9” baseboards. I stopped in my tracks… it looked too enormous to me. The gut can certainly tell you things… luckily we switched to 71/2”… which still seems big to me but a bit better. I think you wouldn’t need much to make you happier. First picture is ours… a bit less modern than yours… but if u look online or on Pinterest there’s a lot of examples of ways to add on… it’ll depend on the look you like… below are also some pictures from online…

Some suggestions pretty much in line with everyone else: --Get an under sink garbage can Rev a Shelf from big box stores has an undersink pullout and is very easy to install. --Coffee setup goes in kitchen. --When you add new pieces like side tables and a coffee table, get them in the wood of your dining table so they echo each other. Natural wood will add texture to your too-smooth surfaces. This coffee table would be best if you replace your very nice rug with a nice patterned rug. Your room desperately needs pattern and a bit of color. I see a colorful vertical art work near fireplace wall. Put it up next to the window. Or find a wonderful vertical mirror with wood trim to put by the window to reflect light coming in. That would help balance the mass of the black TV screen. A few live plants in front of it would be reflected as well. Get a horizontal art work with this palette or a pair of unmatched vertical art works in this palette of golds, gray, a touch of turqoise, lime, etc. Then get pillows in the secondary colors. If you're shy about pattern and color, go abstract with just one secondary color. This bit of gold would echo dining table--maybe something like this could go in dining room since it's visible from living room. Rug palette has pattern, some of your gray, but beautiful gold to reflect dining table across the way. Forgot to add coffee station. With garbage can out of sight, a small MCM little cabinet behind couch at end of cabinet would be functional and attractive in yoiur space: