The elevator opens onto a stone-tile foyer centered on a bubbling koi pond.
My spacious, high-ceilinged room had a stone-tile floor, worn but functional furniture and a private bath with a shower and a cold-water sink.
The bathroom has a rectangular sink surrounded by stone tile, a stone plunge-pool bath, and an arched marble doorway.
In Japan, they might be placed in the middle of a room and drain directly onto a floor of stone tile or, in fancier, zen garden-like setups (both indoors and out), they might lie on a bed of smooth river rocks, surrounded by plantings of whispering bamboo.
The more-than-three-acre property features a main house with five fireplaces, stone tile floors, a kitchen with an island, a breakfast nook, a formal dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows, a theater, a gym, a wine cellar, five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
Note that the cut edges of a ceramic or stone tile can be very sharp.
Down a cobblestone driveway beyond a gated brick wall, the castle has picturesque Flemish detailing, a reddish-brown baked stone tile roof, dormers and a chimney with two pigeonholes for nesting birds.
There are three and a half bathrooms, a two-car garage, covered porches with natural stone tile, high ceilings, an office, marble baths and a heated pool.
Travertine has long been a popular material for stone tile flooring in many stages of construction projects due to having unique surface properties characterized by honeycomb structure.
