London
Book-Matched Marble Living Room
Double height living room, feature wall & joinery
The project
A double-height living room built around a book-matched marble feature wall, with walnut joinery and a staircase detailed to keep the stone as the single dominant element.
The effort behind it
Four slabs were reserved from one block and laid out on the workshop floor for the client to walk before cutting. Lifting them to full height needed a bespoke vacuum rig and a scaffold designed by an engineer, and the mitres were dry-assembled twice so the vein turns the corner within 1mm.
Challenges faced
Working in London brought the classic London constraints: party walls on both sides, no lay-down area, and neighbours two metres from the scaffold line. The Book-Matched Marble Living Room programme had to absorb structural discoveries made only after opening up, and every delay risked cascading into the finishing trades booked behind us. Weekly look-ahead planning and a just-in-time delivery schedule kept the site moving without ever blocking the road.
Team & involvement
Delivery was led by a working site manager with a core crew of our own trades, supported by structural engineers, building control and specialist subcontractors we have worked with for over a decade. Morning briefings, a live programme on the wall and photographic records of every concealed stage meant the client in London always knew exactly where their project stood.
A successful outcome
Book-Matched Marble Living Room was handed over on programme and within the agreed budget, with building control sign-off at the first inspection of every notifiable stage. The client moved back in on the date we gave them at tender — and the aftercare visit twelve months later found nothing to put right. That is the standard every DBS project is measured against.
