Gazebos – making your garden more inviting!

Whatever your taste in garden furniture, you can’t go far wrong with a gazebo. These handy structures come in all shapes and sizes, from the roll-up tent affair that can be erected and dismantled as and when required, to the ornate, wrought-iron structure familiar from many stately homes that provides a focal point for the [...]

Travertine – an ancient building material that is more popular than ever!

Travertine is used as a cladding for prestigious buildings, although one of its principal uses is for flooring for which it is ideally suitable. It is one of the oldest building materials known to man and the Romans used Travertine extensively, perhaps the most famous of these is the Colesseum which is the largest building [...]

Cembrit slates make all the difference to exclusive development

Cembrit Westerland fibre cement slates are the finishing touch for Hill House, an elite eco-development in Ropley, Hampshire. Specifically chosen to give the development a contemporary architectural feel, over 6,000 blue/black slates were used for the 6,700 sq ft timber frame house. Westerland slate comes in graphite, blue-black and also Welsh blue and looks very [...]