Travertine flooring
Have you used any? It’s beautiful for bathroom floors and bathrooms generally. Like the stone we use in our stone fireplaces, and unpainted oak for doors and flooring, you can’t really beat the beauty of natural products. They tend not to ‘go out of fashion’ like so much other trendy stuff.
Stone has been used in construction for many hundreds of years. It can be readily available, is immensely strong, and does not need firing (like bricks) or any other labour/time intensive processes. It does however need to be cut or worked to make it the shape and size that you need, and that of course is where the art of stonemasonry originated.
Cutting a stone fireplace is a small operation in stonemasonry terms, but none the less complicated. It is important that the right piece of stone is used, and in the right orientation. As the jambs of our stone fireplaces are made from separate blocks we also try and ensure that each component is the same colour and texture, although that is not always easy.
A stone fireplace can be incredibly simple, or it can be very complex. We do both! Our standard ranges tend to lean towards the ‘plain and simple’ as we find that this is what most of our customers prefer, but we have made some fantastically beautiful and ornate stone fireplaces for some very grand houses.