I am trying to create a window with the given layout and I am curious about the best way to do it. I have set the window background to be a tiled image of the lighter color. I then thought I would add a uniformgrid with five columns and one row with the 5th column having an “orange” slightly transparent background. Then I would add another uniform grid with 5 rows and 1 column with rows 2 & 3 with the same “orange” color settings. Eventually I will add a company logo to the top left corner and some text in the horizontal band of “orange”. My methods do not seem to be working 🙁 any guidance as I am looking into this myself would be much appreciated. 
I am trying to create a window with the given layout and I am
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The short answer was just to use a grid and set the background color of the cells to be my chosen color with a slight transparency. I could then either set the cells of intersection to a darker color or add a label to the intersecting cells with the same background and transparency. Thank you every one for your help. Over the past hour I have learned a lot about xaml and WPF.