Stone floors

The room is measured, the datum is struck with a laser, and the slabs are dry-laid from it so the pattern and the cuts at the walls are agreed before adhesive is opened.

Each slab goes down on a full bed, is beaten home to the line and checked for lippage as it goes. Stone is then honed where the job calls for it, sealed, and walked once more at handover.

Laser set-out and dry lay
Full-bed adhesive
Lippage checked as it goes
Honed and sealed in place

A polished marble floor at the foot of a floating staircase. — The dining room floor, Claremont

Veined marble slabs running under a stone-clad wall. — Veins carried through the doorway

A polished marble floor reflecting tall windows. — Polished until the windows read in it

02 / Walls and cladding

Walls and cladding

Walls are set out the same way as floors: the line first, then the courses. Rectified stone and porcelain go up on the flat, sheet mosaic is buttered and beaten, and every course is checked plumb.

That covers stairwells and fire surrounds, splashback walls taken to the ceiling, bathroom and shower walls, and exterior cladding on rendered or framed shells.

Feature walls and facades
Bathroom and shower walls
Sheet mosaic and small format
Set out plumb and square

A curved facade clad in grey rectangular stone tile. — Stone tile set on a radius

A monolithic facade wrapped in small grey mosaic tile. — Sheet mosaic over the whole volume

A white modernist apartment block behind a pine. — Balconies and terraces in tile

03 / Kitchens and splashbacks

Kitchens and splashbacks

The splashback is set out so the joints land on the window line and the bench line, not halfway between them. On big kitchens the floor is run through on the same datum as the living room, so there is no threshold to trip the eye.

Island fronts and upstands are clad in the same stone as the bench where the job calls for it.

Splashbacks to the ceiling
Island fronts in stone
Floor run through from living
Joints landed on the lines of the room

A white modern house with a timber pergola over an outdoor table. — Kitchen wing, one floor through

A crisp white modernist house behind a lawn. — A rendered new-build, Dalkeith

A modern house with a dark upper floor over a timber-battened base. — Dark over timber, Cottesloe

04 / Outdoors and pools

Outdoors and pools

Outside, the falls matter more than the pattern. Levels are shot in, the fall is set away from the house, and the pavers go down on a bed that drains.

French pattern and large-format travertine around pools and under verandahs, step runs, and stone thresholds back into the house.

Falls shot in with a level
Pool edges and coping
French pattern and large format
Thresholds back into the house

A travertine French-pattern floor under brick arches on a verandah. — French pattern under the arches

Travertine paving running toward a garden. — Paving run to the garden

A covered alfresco floor in warm travertine. — The alfresco floor, Mount Claremont

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Start with the line.

Call, or send the room, the stone and the suburb. Every job starts with a measure and a datum.