This is our latest project (March 2012)

Years and years ago, Eddy bought two or three old fireplace mantles. We have made a choice and took the black/green marble one for our living room. But it was not only a puzzle, it asked a lot of cleaning. Eddy did the puzzling and than i could clean it. Two weeks ago i began on a beautiful sunday morning with the first cleaning works. I had to take care, because of marble is very vulnerable to certain products. You can use any products with acid. I tried to wash of the most of the dirt with "brown soap". And than i polished the marble, layer by layer.... with a lot of patience. The green marble became green again, the black again black, you can see the difference between the two pictures i' ve took from both sides. And than i polished the marble with fine oil, again with a lot of patience.

Back than it was Eddy's turn to assembly the fireplace mantle on his mal. It is not finished yet, but you can see already the result will be great !

Today i painted the wall above the mantle, so Eddy can finish one of this days the rest of the marble..... curious about the result ??? Me to !