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Last week, with a dramatic before and after I watched one of those home renovation shows. Somewhere in Texas, a young couple had a total budget of US$ 200,000 to purchase their new home. They purchased a one-level house that needed a total reno for $ 115,000. Enter the designer and contractor who magically dug and renovated the entire house inside and outside, complete with a fabulous custom eat-in kitchen, high-end appliances, new paneling, wainscotting, a marble fireplace surrounding mantle, sexy light fixtures and great furnishings — fully decorated.The house was supported right down to the perfect table settings and...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Carraran marble quarry. Carrara marble (sometimes mistakenly "Carrera marble") is a type of white or blue-grey marble of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It is quarried at the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana, the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy.   History Carrara marble has been used since the time of Ancient Rome. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the marble quarries were monitored by the Cybo and Malaspina families who ruled over Massa and Carrara. The family created the Office of...

Felix Petrelli | Friday, February 21, 2014 - 09:00  When driving along the west coast of Tuscany just north of Pisa, you will see jagged alps rising steeply from the narrow strip of land, glistening majestically. These are the Alpi Apuane, or Apuan Alps, mountains that gleam as though cloaked with snow all year round. But the pristine white is not snow, it is the marble of the bare quarried faces of the mountains – the snow the gods made eternal. The effect is so surreal it would not be out of place in a mural in an Indian restaurant,...