For interior designers, architects and their fabricators there’s never been a better time to create a fireplace in natural stone.
Topics: Fireplaces, Alberene Soapstone, American black granite, Saint Henry Black, Solar Grey
If there's anything we love more than quarrying and hewing blocks of stone into unique products for our projects, it's seeing how designers and architects roll up their sleeves and get creative with them in their designs.
Topics: Material Selection, stone samples, Georgia marble, Inspiration, Saint Clair
For the edgiest of designers the white kitchen is on its way out.
Topics: Granite, Kitchen, Saint Henry Black
In Washington D.C., modern and historic live side-by-side, sometimes in the same building.
Topics: Fabrication, Historic restoration, American marble, Georgia marble, White Cherokee Marble, Stone Facades
Goodbye Polish, Hello Texture. California Designer Makes Her Marble Antiqued
California designer Brooke Wagner knew just what she wanted for her personal kitchen, a warm atmosphere with touchable marble surfaces with that time worn texture you might find in a 150 year old French bakery. She just didn’t know where to get it.
Topics: Antiqued finish, Brushed finish, American marble, White Cherokee Marble, American black granite
Thanks to a twist of fate, and the turn of the astronomical gears, the path of today's eclipse traveled smack dab across the northern hills of Georgia near our historic Tate marble quarry, offering us a unique vantage point.
Topics: History and Heritage
It’s a dangerous situation. An architect who specializes in restaurant design let loose to design his own kitchen. There’s no end to the resources and ideas at his disposal. But if you’re Kellen Minor of Decatur, GA you take a cue from the classics and give it a modern update.
Topics: Marble and granite, American marble, Georgia marble, White Cherokee Marble
Have you ever been so in love with a piece of furniture that you designed the whole room around it? For two French Canadian homeowners, it just happened to be their countertops.
Topics: Granite, Backsplashes, Countertops, American black granite, honed finish, saint henry
DIY Soapstone Countertops: How To Fabricate and Install Them Safely (and Easily)
Being an avid DIY’er is both a blessing and a curse.
Topics: Fabrication, Soapstone, Waxed soapstone, How to cut soapstone, DIY soapstone kits, Alberene Soapstone, Safety
Cut it linear or on the rift, rough it up or make it shine. No matter how you slice it, this American marble is the versatile, durable answer to all your soothing grey dreams.
Topics: Kitchen, Saint Clair, Exterior applications