Standardize Padding

Hi,
What’s the best way to standardize padding? I need to have 70px above and below all content and am using color sections for every column. I have modified the default padding to:
.content, .sidebar {
padding-top: 70px;
padding-bottom: 50px;
}

This works for some sections but not others. Most sections have “special headings” and it seems that the line height of the heading is contribuing to spacing, also some elements such as accordions aren’t getting the normal padding.

My site is currently password protected.

Please let me know best practice to address the issue of having the same padding above and below content in all color sections.

thanks