On the shores of a Venice canal, Ilaria Miani, a well-known Italian interior designer, bought a former bishop’s boathouse adjacent to an ancient basilica in Venice. She has renovated it to a beautiful home and succeed to marry the old with the new. She kept the decoration simple, creating a cool, soothing oasis of exposed brick, salvaged woods, and smooth seminato floors (lime mixed with ground pieces of marble and coloured pigment — or terracotta in the cavana — and then polished) against an all-white backdrop of walls, furniture and curtains.

source Vogue