Inside, among faux marble columns and enormous chandeliers, ten animatronic goblins glare at visitors, before looking down again to scratch out numbers with their quills.

Specialist painter and decorators still use this technique to great effect in the world of interior design e.g. faux marble.

Massive plaster columns are painted in a faux marble technique to emulate the red marble and rest on hexagonal brass bases.

On either side of the lateral walls are two built-in confessionals, with doors painted in red and decorative elements in gold, as well as faux marble interiors, framed in shells.

Measuring 2,000 sq ft, the three-bedroom flat has a large open-plan living room with a marble kitchen and high ceilings throughout.

The villa's open-plan dining area boasts a huge table, while their smart grey marble kitchen has all mod cons.

The pearls are taking over the flat, and they can't eat at the big marble kitchen table because it's covered in samples and paperwork.

An open-plan living area has high ceilings and a sleek marble kitchen.

The flat has two ensuites and a stone and marble kitchen.

The polished marble monument has several inscriptions on it.

The left-hand window was walled up to provide space for the new neoclassical marble monument.

The marble monument includes an empty tomb with her name on it.

A blue and red marble monument of a number of pieces - nine to ten feet high.

The marble monument was an obelisk about 20 ft in height, resting on a marble pedestal.

Also, the pool, finished only six months ago, was tiled in marble mosaic.

The bathroom had a marble mosaic double shower and freestanding in, it bath.

Marble mosaic medallions are inset in the north and south lobby floors.

All that remains of the original furnishings are three marble mosaic console tables and upholstered settees.

The floors were are of marble mosaic with geometric decorations.

The inscription had become unreadable by 1922 and a separate marble plaque with this text was installed at the entrance to the reserve.

The building was originally a hospital for blind war veterans (commemorated by a marble plaque inside the building).

Extensive renovations to the property occurred in 1896 (as a simple marble plaque states on the front of the building) and again most probably in the 1950s.

They are surrounded by a raised rectangle of granite featuring six lightposts approximately four feet high, with the student's name engraved on a triangular marble plaque in one corner.

The yellow walls bear marble plaques, testaments from grateful patients.

It has a tall central tower and featured an ornate interior with marble sculpture and murals.

The current altar was designed to recall in marble sculpture the essential form of this reliquary casket.

Noted for its magnificent architecture and beautiful marble sculpture, the temple has twelve spiral columns each 15 feet high.

They were viewed as handicrafts, thus inherently inferior, and not art, like marble sculptures.

Here, he was entrusted with processing ancient marble sculptures, a main theme of his future research.

Marble stairs lead to bedrooms with fabulous bathrooms and garden views at the back.

It has marble stairs and a veranda with views of the lake; the owner can use the well-maintained communal gardens, as well as a private outside space.

Marble stairs lead up to a balustraded balcony on all four sides.

Armed with a map, we marched confidently up the marble stairs.

The central lobby contains marble stairs and flooring, and a high ceiling with decorative plaster work.

Obviously, you have to have the gleaming feet of a neoclassical marble statue to wear these.

A 6½ft marble statue, it shows the emperor decked out in his finest war gear, addressing his assembled legions.

Baker proposed a marble statue that would cost $50,000 to $60,000 and stand on a pedestal worth $7,000 to $10,000.

Some specific artifacts named are clay metopes with yellow veneer, spearheads, and part of the arm of a marble statue.

He asked for three years to complete a marble statue.

The front door has grand bronze handles and a marble surround.

Most people opt for a classic built-in bath with a marble surround.

Inside, features include bay windows with views across the parkland, and a fireplace with marble surround in the dining room.

Other than a fireplace with marble surround, the rooms are generally plainer than their downstairs counterparts, but the northwest chamber has an elaborate ceiling cornice.

Marble writing tables and a bulletin board with marble surround are at the lobby's south wall.

It had hardwood floors in all classrooms and terrazzo floors in the stairs and hallways, accented with marble tile borders.

The original decor was elaborate, sporting marble tile and onyx wainscoting.

Standards are so high that the types of materials used are specific and highly scrutinised - marble tiles are out, marble slabs are in.

Fake marble tiles are dreadful - they should be real marble or plain porcelain.

There were also chips around the marble tile's edges.

Polished marble floors are decorated in geometric patterns; cherubs dance across frescoed ceilings and antiques stand against sumptuously papered walls.

At just after eight, five rascals came rollicking in, a blur of silk scarves and frock coats, their buccaneer boots clattering on the polished marble floors.

The giant open-plan receptions, all polished marble, contemporary sculptures and 20th century sofas, are built to impress visitors and reassure staff that they're part of something big.

The spec included polished marble and wood floors, as well as expensive landscaping with fossil mint stone terraces.

A light-filled, open-plan living area with polished marble floors and a sleek kitchen opens on to a chic terrace with sunloungers lining a triangular pool.