BathroomAshburn, VA6 products
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Book-matched marble guest bath
A single marble wall where the veining mirrors at the centre joint, set against a hexagonal mosaic floor.
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Living space
Split-face stone fireplace surround
Floor-to-ceiling natural slate with mitred returns at the opening, coursed to land full at the ceiling.
- Room
- Living space
- Location
- Great Falls, VA
- Completed
- November 2024
- Case study
- Read the build
Specification study
- Products
- 3
- One of each
- $114.90
One unit of every priced item, which is a floor rather than an estimate — a real room needs more than one box of tile.
Why it was specified this way
Split-face stone has real depth, which means it also has real shadow. Lighting it from above rakes across the face and makes the texture do the work, where flat front lighting would wash it out.
Carrying the stone the full height rather than stopping at a mantel makes the chimney breast read as a single element. Setting out from the ceiling down means the top course lands full, and any cut course is at the floor where a skirting hides it.
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Everything in this room
Listed in build order, from what goes against the substrate to what you finally see. The placement beside each product is the surface it went on. Open any of them to read the specification without leaving the room.
Open a material to read its specification without losing the room. Save the ones you are weighing up, or add them to your materials list. Set the amounts you need there, or work them out first with the tile calculator. Or take the whole list away as a document: Print this specification.
Chimney breast
Carried floor to ceiling, with mitred returns at the opening so no cut edge is visible.
$13.90per sq ft
Chimney breast
Sealed after installation, which keeps soot and dust out of an open-textured surface.
$59each
Behind the stone
$42per bag
This specification was written for the room in the photographs. Yours will need different amounts and a different amount of work behind the finish, so send the list for a quote and we will price it against your own.
The room in detail
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The build behind it
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