Beautiful, Natural, traditional… Stone
You just can’t beat natural materials. Oak for furniture; flooring; doors or actually the frame of your house. Thatch for a roof, terracotta tiles for the floor; travertine or limestone for flooring, and of course, natural stone for a stone fireplace or a stone mullion window, or a stone door surround. Not only do all these natural materials look beautiful, but they’re also generally very durable and long lasting. They also tend to be rarely a ‘fashion’ item and are therefore retained much longer if not for their lifetime, which means that they’re very eco-friendly.
The beauty of natural materials, whether stone; timber; or whatever, is that no two pieces are ever exactly the same. Each piece is unique, and thus has a unique beauty. When we make stone fireplaces, we often find lovely figuring or maybe a subtle shade variation, and even sometimes a preserved sea shell, that settled in the sediment many thousands of years ago (millions probably) and only sees the light of day again, when our masons find it as they carve your stone fireplace. How miraculous is that!?