The first time that David and Susan Scott presented designs for our house they brought along material samples - one of which was a slab of pale grey-blue unpolished Tllupana marble. We learned that it had been quarried up island. The Scotts are connoisseurs of that which is produced on Vancouver Island. They have used Tlupana marble on other projects (as in a massive handsome kitchen counter we admired (add image)). They encouraged us to take a drive to Duncan to Matrix Marble to see the operation. Ivo Zanatta is the major domo. he comes from a family of an Italian family of stone experts.

Vancouver island marble turns up in our house, you’ll see it when we get to the finishings stage. We scrimped to be able to use Tlupana on a few surfaces. We bought all our kitchen appliances on used Vic second hand for $1700. We sourced the base cabinets from Ikea for $3000.