Absolute Black Polished Granite is an elegant black granite with a small scale black on black patterning and a polished finish. This stone is ideal for both indoor and outdoor applications.

Valley Hardwood
Mid-sized transitional medium tone wood floor living room photo in Seattle with gray walls

Angela Dye
Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary drought-tolerant and full sun hillside stone garden path in Denver for summer.

Example of a tuscan home office design in Sacramento

"Colomns-look" side panels. Draped shenille based onto "Damask"-patterned upholstered wood box-cornices. Perfect solution for jtall windows, leaves whole view with just "framing" decoration.

Herringbone 2"x4" tiles with borders. 1"x1" diagonally set tiles with 1"x2" tiles and quarter round edge trim.
Inspiration for a mediterranean backyard natural pool house remodel in Los Angeles

Bedroom - modern bedroom idea in Vancouver

Debra Prinzing

Scott & Catherine Buley, High Tech Turf & Trees/Rain Garden Nursery

Powder room - cottage wallpaper powder room idea in New York

LavArte - MGO Stone Classics Enameled lava stone counter tops are perfect for outdoor kitchens. 36 standard colors to chose from. Please call for info and details.

Confetti cover in shades of blue. Create custom shelves using Schluter®-KERDI-BOARD.

Boxleaf Honeysuckle and Black Sweet Potato Vine.
Deck container garden - small eclectic backyard deck container garden idea in Seattle with no cover

Millicent Harvey
Living room - mid-sized contemporary open concept light wood floor living room idea in Boston with a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

Added a spa to this old pool then completed the pool and spa with an all tile interior. Spa is extra long to accomodate swim jets to be an endless pool for swimming in place. Color LED lights enhance the beauty. New travertine deck was added and a beautiful pizza oven and BBQ unit

This client didn't have any built in shelves for Shampoo bottles and other shower necessities. Also, the client wanted to replace the existing bench because of issues they had with the existing grout and tile. Rather than redoing the tiled bench, I selected a slab of travertine to match the existing tile. We also added the stone shelves you see on the wall to make the space more functional.

I was recently asked to this property in Wimbledon in to see if there was anything we could do to resolve the problem with a recently laid Black Limestone tiled floor. The builders that had laid the Limestone did not cover or clean the tiles prior to sealing with an impregnating seal thereby trapping in all the dirt from the building works. They then grouted the tiles but didn’t clean the grout off the surface before putting on another two coats of sealer all of which resulted in a very poor finish. Naturally the customer was not happy so called them back to rectify the problem and so they came back and tried to strip the sealer off with cloths and a chemical stripper. Then without rinsing the stone to remove the chemicals they added another two coats of sealer; in desperation the lady gave up with them and called me in. To resolve I tried all the sealant strippers available to me but couldn’t budge the mess effectively. The only other option available was to diamond grind the surface so I discussed this with the customer and she agreed to this and left me to carry on. Initially I started with a coarse 400 grit diamond pad but even that wasn’t having much effect so in the end I had to cut back the surface using a 100 grit pad moving up to 200 grit, then 400 before finally stopping at 800. To lubricate the process you need to use a little water and then rinse away the resultant soil after each pad. If this was a polished stone surface I would have continued with finer and finer grits to restore the surface polish however these tiles were rough limestone and I needed to leave it as near to how it should be. Once all the Limestone had been stripped back the stone turned an uninviting grey colour, so to bring it back to black I applied two coats of Tile Doctor Stone Oil which enhanced the colour. I left the floor overnight to allow the Stone Oil to dry out and then returned to seal the Limestone using two coats of Tile Doctor Colour Grow which is an impregnating sealer that enhances the colour in the stone and will protect it from staining going forward. When the customer saw the final result she was overwhelmed and said she felt like crying with relief, because the floor now looked how she had imagined it to be. It was a great feeling for me to know that I had solved the problems for her.

A close up shot of the tone on tone texture with a hint of pearl in the background.