Hi, We are installing engineered wood flooring soon and will be replacing our interior trim at the same time. We're going for a classical craftsman kind of look, in the sense that we will have simple roundover casing and base but with a built-up header over doors & entries. In most rooms, our casing will be 3/4" thick. Herein lies the issue: I think that in order to create nice shadows and have an interesting detail between what will otherwise be a simple intersection of base & casing, a plinth block is a good move. However, my wife's first response upon seeing a plinth block in pictures was, "What's the point of that?" At this stage, she's not a fan. My concern is that if we skip the plinths, the thinnest base I can find that is sufficiently tall is 5/8", and I'm not sure if this will create a sharp enough contrast where this intersects the 3/4" casing. Will 5/8" base hitting 3/4" casing look fine? Or is using plinths really a better move here? Thanks for any advice, guys.

I am building an entertainment center and am going to have glass doors on each end. The doors will be a total of 11 1/2 inches wide and 26 1/2 inches tall. I want to use only styles for the doors with the glass set in dados. The styles are 1 1/2 inches wide and my current dado is 1/4 inches deep. This makes the glass panel be 9 inches wide and 26 1/2 inches tall. I will glue the glass into the dado and then run clear adhesive caulk on both sides of the styles. My question is, Is 1/4 inch dado adequate? I can easily deepen them to 1/2 inch if that would be better and just get a wider piece of glass. Any suggestions would be welcome.