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“One easy way to refresh an original fireplace in an older home is to update the front hearth with a remnant stone slab like soapstone or marble,” she says.

One method of eco-friendly cooling that she would never consider is whiskey stones, those small cube-shaped rocks made of soapstone or stainless steel that are sold as ice alternatives.

Carved from soapstone, they copy the crude softwood miniatures that kids build from dollhouse kits.

“Granite and slate,” he said each time we visited, “maybe a little soapstone, sprinkled with limestone and quartz. Minerals galore! It’s a smorgasbord of metamorphic marvels!”

Some of the things that make up the style include reclaimed flooring, stone, brick, granite and soapstone.