"Nonny" wrote in message
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Speaking of using marble for decoration somewhere other than on a floor or
counter top, I also did some work with slate that was both fun and came
out well. We had a second place up in the mountains, and it has a granite
tile entry, with a framed mirror hung over a primitive table to add to the
sense of depth. The mirror's frame was pretty crappy, so one weekend I
decided to see if I could improve on things. A trip to Lowe's found 12"
slate tiles that while having a gray background, also has veins of gold
color, some brown colors and even a bit of green in them. They looked
like they'd been made to go with the entry's granite floor and the veins
matched the stone fireplace that was visible beyond the entry. Besides,
they were cheap.

I bought a couple boxes of the slate tiles, dug out my wet saw, and found
a nice, non-beveled edge 30" X 36" X 1/4" plate glass mirror. The mirror
was glued to the drywall, using mirror mastic and supported from shear
loading of the mastic (while curing out for a week) by some 8d nails
driven into the studs to support the mirror bottom. The mirror was
non-beveled so that the thickness would closely match the slate surround I
planned to make.

The following weekend, I ripped the slate into 1", 2" and 3" widths on the
wet saw. Then, I used Liquid Nails for CCA Decks to attach the ripped
pieces to the drywall. I first surrounded the mirror with 1" widths of
varying lengths, and wasn't very careful to press everything down tight.
I wanted a slightly 3 dimensional look to the slate. As with the nails
I'd removed from below the mirror, I used dressmaker pins (about an inch
long with a glass head on them) to support the slate pieces until the
Liquid Nails cured. Essentially, each pass took 3 days to do. Each day,
I increased the width of the slate pieces to use the 2" and then the 3"
ones.

When the pins for the 3" pieces were finally removed, the mirror and its
frame looked like a million bucks, matching the floor and complimenting
the fireplace, while going well with the little table and adding depth to
the small entry.

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Nonny

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Are we going to see a photo of it???????? ww