Now, the model has white leather sectional sofas, sandstone tile floors and other contemporary furnishings.

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This unit has tile floors, on-site laundry and is located in a gated complex.

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The main house is the more elevated structure and consists of an open floor plan with French terra-cotta tile floors, custom wrought iron and cathedral ceilings.

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The house was also designed to consume minimal energy and incorporates a number environmentally friendly features, including geothermal heating and cooling and recycled tile floors and countertops.

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En suite bathrooms have tile floors and hot showers.

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They did a 10-month remodeling that included making a television room out of a screened porch while preserving original details like the pecky cypress ceilings in the living room and library, the handblown stained-glass panes in the powder-room door and the Cuban tile floors in the dining room.

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Replacing carpet with tile or wood floors is also beneficial, since carpets tend to trap dander.

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Like other ESPA-designed properties, the Acqualina spa flows beautifully, in gentle fountains of water, in warm and muted lighting, in the floors of teak and quartzite tile and walls of slate and tinted mosaics.

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Inside, floors morph from wood to stone to tile, rooms are demarcated only by rattan-wrapped poles, and a staircase seems suspended by nothing more than plants.

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