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If you’re completely gutting the kitchen, you’ve got plenty of choices to make, but also plenty of freedom. It’s important to consider the kitchen as a whole in these cases, and you should think about how you’ll use it, not just when you’re cooking for a dinner party but when you’re having breakfast, reading the paper or even washing the dog. Stone floors are easy to clean, hard to damage and very durable. Modern engineered stones allow you to coordinate textures while choosing different colours, and many people enjoy having […]

Why Choose Marble For Your Staircase? If you’re looking for a material for your home to give it that luxurious edge, look no further than marble. An incredible stone which has proven popular throughout the ages, the imitation by other materials only proves how coveted this material really is. There are so many ways you can incorporate this stylish stone into your home, from worktops to bathrooms and flooring, marble will give any room an instant edge. Available in a multitude of colours from the classic white and black through […]

This week I have been mostly looking at Roman Aqueducts. The first, the Aqua Appia was built in 312 BC to provide the populace of Rome up to 75,537 cubic meters of water per day. The amazing thing about this structure is that the majority of it’s length was subterranean and dropped only 10m throughout it’s entirety. Aqueducts move water through gravity alone and the Aqua Appia, built from stone, brick and the special volcanic element pozzuolona also afforded itself protection by it’s underground construction. During the Samnite wars, the […]