Hi Scott I dicover many things while attending Korean temple and reading Sutras. since I have no guidance to reading sutra. I may not understand sutras fully. small portion of words in sutra is some how relate to Japanese garden. I found why willow tree is used around pond also found why willow tree is symbol of long life in book of divination . old photo of Ginkakuji had lotus in the pond , but there is no water liliy now ,and planting of tree and shurb in peninsula are much different than today. planting of willow/ choice of willow came from sutra . silver of Ginkakuji temple and gold of Kinkaji also written in Sutra. I thought "sama" at end of name is pure Japanese word, but now I know it was ancent Korean custom to call Monk. Samma is the way Korean write and pronanceation a little different than today's Japanese. And now I see Chinese temple has stone lanterns, according my a Japanese stone lantern book, Chinese temple's stone lanterns are not exist many. It may be true statement, may be what I saw in photo of Chinese temple could be replica of old stone lanterns since China had many domestic wars thousand years. I see different between Korean and Chinese stone lanterns . and Japanese stone lanters are different than Chinese and Korean. Tanyou sho VS Tagyo sho : now I know which book made miss take and when. It was not Dr MIcheal Dirr. It was more 100 year ago . ( I have to save this part for my future book ) If I did not study sutras my self, I would not understand many parts of Japanese garden and it's history. It took me hundreds of hours and reading lot's more than 100 books. once I can reach to some point to understand buddhism and history, then I have to go back to designe and horticulture of Gardening again. About edzard : He is faceing serious wild annimal problem. Bear dameged his truck already. now trying to get his horses. wolf and coyote as well. He is spending sleep less nights quite some time. Please give him time. I was going to make joke about bear but seriousness of problem , It is not good time for joking. As we get old ( I am talking to you, heheheh ) we gaind experience and read more books and contacted many knowgeble peoples and gained more information from them , and we get stone head/ stubborness ( now I am talking about my self ;)... ) Edzard is well educated, soft spoken man. much different than writting when I talk to him. once I settele in Salem Mass , I am going invited edzard to our home . since your are not very far from Salem, we can get togather face to face, we can know each other well. If I send smell of a good Cuban ciger to INky , He may visit too. while you give edzard time to cacth up, you will find many intresting things in the sutras. If you want to take shout cut and want to know what sutra and where in sutra relate to Japanese garden . I will show you secretly... (I should not tell to every one whole story of Movie, right ? ) Oh ,,Well, it's about time to go to bed..... mike

This isn't a direct answer to your query re stiles, but for the most custom-looking appearance make the bottom rail wider (really taller) than the top rail of a each door front. Think about your proposed door sizes, too, when deciding on the stile width. The panel between the stiles looks dorky on narrow doors if it is too close to the width of the stiles themselves. One really wide doors sometimes it looks better to add a center stile. Beyond that, I would measure your existing trims in the house and also measure all the cabs you can find on display at the highest-end cab companies you can visit. Start by choosing something that looks eye-sweet to you. Your cabinet maker may also have some preferred dimensions based on his tools. HTH L.

Thanks Whitecap. We just inherited the tile when we bought the house. When we moved in I thought the grout was dark gray - turns out, it was dirty! I discovered in the hall closet, a nice light tone. SO I used a super strength oxy clean and went to work. It got most of the dirt out so it is lighter all over. Since doing that, I would say it hasn't been too hard, but we are a shoes off family. The tile has little groves that I also thought were gray - nope -had to scrub and scrub with a stiff bristle brush. :)

Kristin Windhorst, if you will look at a thread here on Houzz, Adura Max vs Cortec, you will find many photos of actual installs of SuperCore. I had SuperCore Krypton installed in a home I sold in 2020 and it turned out great. I had moved before the install, but do know that it’s easy upkeep. My new construction home has SuperCore Elkhorn floors, and I love them. The planks are 7” wide and 60” long. My flooring has a micro bevel that I can’t even see. Both of my choices would be too rustic for you, but I love them. There are many choices of color and style in SuperCore. Oak Natural is a pretty hardwood look with little contrast between planks, Gunstock is a darker choice, and there are many others. WeShipFloors.com has a great website with good info on SuperCore. Barbara and Zoe were so helpful to me with both floors. They sent numerous samples and answered my many questions. The phone number is on the website if you have questions. Good luck on your flooring search. If you decide on SuperCore I don’t think you will be sorry.