Naples, FL · Mon–Fri 8am–5pm · Sat 10am–2pm
Marble, quartzite, and travertine — cut for your house.
Hand-pick the slab with us; we template, fabricate, set, and seal it. Counters, baths, fireplaces, pool decks.
- 01Pick the slab with us
- 02We template & fabricate
- 03We set it & seal it
Pick your slab in person, with us.
Stone is the one surface you should never choose from a thumbnail. Each block leaves the quarry with veining that exists nowhere else on earth — so we don't order it for you. We stand you in front of the actual slab, at the yard or the showroom wall, and you keep the one you can't stop looking at.
The slab wallfull slabs, stood up 
Antiqued marblewarm gold veining 
Cambria wall · in personseen in real light 
Quartzitecool, glassy depth
We hold accounts with three Naples-area yards. Slab selection is the single most important decision in a stone project — so we'd rather you make it than make it for you.
Book the slab visitMarble etches — and that's the point.
Most stone companies dodge this. We'll say it plainly: a marble kitchen you cook in will etch — soft dull spots where acid met the stone. That is not a flaw and it is not damage. It's the same arc a leather bag or a copper pan takes — and if you can't live with it, we'll tell you to choose quartz instead.
- Year 0Install day
Cut, sealed, mirror-bright.
A penetrating sealer goes on before we leave — not a topical coat that scrapes off. The slab reads exactly as it did on the wall: crisp veining, even polish.
- Year 1First re-seal · free
The first soft marks appear.
A lemon by the sink, a glass of wine — calcite marble takes a few dull spots where acid touched it. We come back to re-seal at year one at no charge, and most owners have already stopped noticing them.
- Year 3Lived-in
It reads as patina.
The surface has a soft, low-sheen character around the working zones — the look people pay extra to fake on new stone. This is not damage. It's the mark of a kitchen that gets used, and it can be re-polished to new if you ever want it back.
- Etches from acid — visibly, and that's the character.
- Heat-resistant — sets a hot pan directly.
- Re-polishable — refinished back to new whenever you want.
- For the hero bath, the dining island, the fireplace surround.
- Never etches — acid, citrus, and wine leave nothing.
- Zero maintenance — no sealer, ever.
- Won't take heat — a trivet stays on the counter.
- For the children's bath, the rental kitchen, the surface that can't change.
We install both — the surface that ages with you, and the one that never moves. The only wrong call is the one made without knowing a marble kitchen earns its patina on purpose.
Which stone belongs in which room.
Picking the stone is half the decision — the other half is the room. A marble that's perfect on a fireplace is the wrong call on a wet bar. Here is each stone we set, the rooms it's right for, the rooms to skip it, and the one honest line on care.
Marble
Calcite · imported slabThe drama stone. Veining you can book-match across an island, a wet bar, a fireplace — and patina that earns character as the years pass.
- Belongs in
- The hero primary bathThe dining islandThe fireplace surround
- Skip it
- A wet bar or a kids' bath — daily acid will etch it fast.
- The honest care line
- Penetrating sealer at install; honed Calacatta forgives etching better than polished Carrara.
- Natural · harder than marble
Quartzite
- Belongs in
- Working kitchen counters · the island that gets cooked on
- Skip it
- Nothing structural — it's the hardest of the four; polished can still etch slightly.
- Care
- Far more etch-resistant than marble; one seal pass, then it largely looks after itself.
- Honed & filled · 2cm slab
Travertine
- Belongs in
- Pool decks · lanais · sun-warm guest bath floors
- Skip it
- Kitchen counters — it's porous and soft for a daily work surface.
- Care
- Annual penetrating-sealer pass around saltwater; we build the calendar into the scope.
- Engineered · USA · zero-seal
Cambria quartz
- Belongs in
- Children's baths · rental kitchens · the surface that can't ever change
- Skip it
- Anywhere a hot pan lands directly — heat will discolor it; keep a trivet.
- Care
- Never etches, never needs a sealer — the honest answer when patina isn't wanted.
We install all four, and we'll tell you which room wants which — quartz for the children's bath and the high-abuse rental kitchen, marble for the hero bath, the dining island, and the fireplace surround. The point of the slab yard is to make that call standing in front of the actual stone.
The slab you picked, set and sealed.
A marble waterfall island, templated to your room and sealed before we leave — the piece you chose at the yard, living where you actually cook.
Pick the slab, and we'll take it from there.
Walk our Naples showroom or the slab yard with us — we'll write a fixed-price scope on your actual slab, no deposit.
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The details, for when you want them.
How we seal it, what book-matching actually changes, and when marble beats quartz. Skim what's useful — the slab yard is the easy way to get the rest.
- Penetrating sealer at install — not a topical coat that can be scraped off.
- Re-seal visit at year 1 (free), then every 3 years on call-back.
- Written maintenance calendar delivered with the job.
- Honed finish recommended for high-traffic — shows etching less than polished.
Unsealed marble stains from a single glass of red wine. We seal at install and keep it up for you, so it stays the stone you chose.
Book-matching — cutting two adjacent slabs so the veins mirror each other across a seam — is the single most dramatic thing you can do with marble. A Calacatta island with a waterfall book-match reads like a piece of art.
We plan these from the quarry, photograph every slab, and call out the match on the cut list before a single saw touches the stone.
Stone is cut once. We template full-scale and dry-fit before the saw runs, so a one-of-a-kind slab is never wasted on a wrong call.
Which one belongs in which room.
We install both. Quartz is the correct choice for children's bathrooms and high-abuse rental kitchens; marble for the hero bath, the dining island, and the fireplace surround — heat-set, re-polishable, and one of a kind.
Marble etching in humid, acidic exposure.
Naples humidity plus a citrus splash or a glass of wine will etch a calcite-based marble within minutes. We seal at install, walk you through which marbles are forgiving (honed Calacatta) and which aren't (polished Carrara on a wet bar), and put a protective-placement plan in the file.
Sealer refresh on patios + pool decks.
Travertine, limestone, and tumbled marble around a saltwater pool need an annual sealer pass — non-negotiable in this climate. We build the maintenance calendar into the original scope so the warranty stays intact.
Slab load on second-story installs.
Three-centimeter Calacatta or Taj Mahal on a second-floor primary bath isn't a given. We coordinate with your structural engineer (or pull the original drawings) before we spec the slab — no surprise sign-off requests after demo.
Every slab we set is sourced for your house and templated before the saw runs — a one-of-a-kind stone is never wasted.
Direct-from-quarry sourcing, an Italian bridge saw in our own shop, and twenty-eight years of what works in Naples salt air.
- 28
- Years in Naples
- A+
- BBB · since 2004
- 5.0
- Google rating
Common questions · Natural Stone
Honest answers.
Will marble etch in my kitchen?
If you use it daily, yes. Lemon, wine, coffee leave dull spots within months. This is not damage — it's patina, and most marble kitchens we install embrace it. If you can't live with etching, we'll steer you to a Calacatta-look porcelain or quartz that looks identical from five feet away.
What about pool-deck stone in salt air?
Travertine and limestone both handle salt well. We seal with a penetrating sealer (not a topical one) and re-seal at year three. Porcelain pool deck is another option — zero maintenance, but the surface reads differently underfoot.
Can we visit the slab yard?
Absolutely — we encourage it. We have accounts with three Naples-area yards. Slab selection is the single most important decision in a stone project; we'd rather you pick the exact slab than have us pick on your behalf.
How long does a kitchen stone install take?
Template to install: 3–4 weeks. Install itself is a single day for a standard kitchen, two days for an island with waterfall edges. We time it around your cabinet install so the stone lands on finished cabinets.
Do you do outdoor stone?
Pool decks, outdoor kitchen counters, fireplace surrounds. Naples salt air does work on stone — we over-spec the sealer and build a maintenance calendar into the project scope.
What's your warranty?
Lifetime on fabrication + install. Sealer is warrantied for 3 years; we'll come re-seal at year three free of charge. If a seam fails from settling, we fix it — our warranty call rate is under 2%.