Marble

There’s So Much Marble in This Michigan Home That It’s Really Stoned

By Mimi Perez / February 22, 2023 /

There is an unwritten code amongst the ladies that if we see one of the sisters with lipstick on their teeth, we suck and run our tongue over our teeth until she does the same to remove said lipstick. That’s the girl code. It’s what we do to support our fellow sisters so they can…

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Penthouse Plunge: Sudden Stone Sale Brings Countertops Into Focus

By Jon Anderson / January 7, 2020 /

The framing is almost complete in the A-unit of this Penthouse Plunge renovation project. For the newbies, this is the latest installment of a series chronicling the absurdity of my purchasing a double penthouse at The Claridge on Turtle Creek. I’m separating it back into two units and gutting and renovating the corner A-unit and…

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Kristin Cavallari Teamed Up With Dal-Tile To Make All Your Ceramic Dreams Come True

By Nikki Barringer / November 1, 2019 /

Right in our backyard, there’s a tile giant named Dal-Tile. I mean, it’s right in the name: DAL-Tile. But what if there’s some other famous Dal out there? It could happen. Here’s something to consider though, one in three tiles sold in America is a Dal-Tile product. Isn’t that bananas? It is a little, but…

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Ready to Remodel? Revisiting Countertop Options, Part 2

By Jon Anderson / July 25, 2017 /

Back in 2015 I wrote a pair of columns on countertops, and specifically issues I’d been having with mine. Based on new information, I thought a revisit was in order. In Part One I wrote about some of the more unusual countertop options like paper, wood, and glass before diving into the varieties of stone. …

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From the Archives: Phenomenal Buckner Terrace Reno Goes Under Contract in 3 Days

By Leah Shafer / December 29, 2015 /

Editor’s note: This piece originally ran March 24, 2015, and highlights the gorgeous work of Barton-Graham Home & Design Firm. We subsequently wrote a profile of them here and featured another renovation of theirs here. If you want to see what an incredible renovtion can do for a house, look no further than the 1960s…

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