Thank you for the suggestions!
After pondering it a bit and looking around the past few days for some inspiration, I think I have found some inspiration in a formerly well known build(might still be well known, but hasn’t had any updates in years) that’ll allow me to come up with happy medium. However it’ll require my panels to be taken to my upholstery guy instead of ordering them from nakamae like originally planned. I’ve got my new nakamae stuff on order, just have to wait for them to arrive before I am able to take my seats and panels to the upholstery shop as I want to try and get him to find the same exact stitching color to use on the seats and door panels so it all matches throughout the car.
It’s a slow and steady build.... but I hope the end result will be worth it!