Fall is for Everything

Despite our recent diversions from the topic at hand, we haven't forgotten our main topic and so, back to business. We've been making good progress on the guest bedroom, which we now call either the serious room or the presumptious room. Compared to the room across the hall, it seems like it takes itself quite seriously, we ended up with dark stained wood and the textured wallpaper and it looks quite formal. The paneling came out really nice, the next three pictures show the steps in constructing it. The first picture shows the 1/4" plywood that I put up against the studs and the bottom railing (3/4" plywood) that was attached over the 1/4" plywood.
You can also see the outles that will be mounted horizontally in the baseboards. The light colored plywood is just 3/4 plywood filler strips that the baseboard will hide. Next I attached the stiles and top rail, spacing out the stiles as needed. The top and bottom of the styles had small rabbets that fit into corresponding rabbets in the top and bottom rail. That should help to hold the thing together and it made things much easier to install.
The top rail also had a rabbet on the top due to the thickness difference between the 1/2" drywall and 1/4" plywood. I was unable to get full (4'x8') sheets of 1/2 plywood anywhere around here, which struck me as very odd, but the best you can do is 1/2 sheets. Half sheets of plywood would have left a lot of joints that would need to be hidden by stiles and just wasn't worth it. The stiles are 20" high, so using the golden ration as a guide, my target width was 12", and then I adusted up or down an inch to even things out. You can see one small panel in the corner where I couldn'd get things adjusted all the way. If I do this again, I'll make reduce the width slightly.
In this last picture, you can see the moulding that I put inside of each frame. I used 3/4" decorative shelf edge and mitered that into each panel and nailed things in place. I then made beaded chair rail from solid 2" strips of oak attached that to hide the top rail. Then another piece of decorative shelf edge was attached under the chair rail, it's difficult to make out both of those pieces.
Lastly, we discovered an architecural salvage place in Ithaca that has very reasonable prices on salvaged trim. So we bought new door trim and frieze boards, here's one quick shot of the molding we bought, we'll put more up once the frieze's are up and everythings stained.
I think everybody knows, but if not we officially have another dog. He's a blind Irish border collie. Sadly, he was imported from Ireland by some folks in NY who own sheep and compete in sheep herding trials. He had been here about a year when they realized he was having trouble seeing the sheep. They found he has a genetic degenerative disease which at this point has left him completely blind. He's a lousy sheep herding dog, but a very nice (if somewhat protective) pet. He's also very lazy.