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I recently had a large aluminum slider replaced in my kitchen, along with a 8'x8' sliding patio door (one side fixed the other side slid) and used Sherwood Gregory at Custom Windows of Houston ( 713)864-2747. They did a real nice job for the price. He will talk quite a lot, but his price is great and the end product is good. He uses Milguard windows sometimes, which you can find through other sources as well. For the patio door, his custom fabricated door was about $2500 cheaper than the quote I got from Western Window Systems. The Milguard windows are considered the lower end of the spectrum as compared with Fleetwood, Western, etc. but I have been very happy with the one we had installed. It is about 5' tall by 6' wide. It has very thin brushed aluminum framing, which is the look I was going for. Hope this helps.

Are you looking for residential examples or commercial/ office examples? It is fairly difficult to find a company willing to pour new terrazzo in a residential application. I did a remodel of a MCM in Meyerland this summer and it took quite an effort simply to find a contractor who could patch my existing terrazzo and pour two relatively small (about 100 sq ft) areas to match. The other thing you may want to consider is the cost. My house has about 2500 sq ft of terrazzo and all three of the contractors I had bid on grinding and polishing it commented on how no one would pay to have it poured now. They each estimated the cost of pouring it new at around $30-45 a square foot. That being said -- it is incredibly easy to take care of, and IMHO nothing looks better in a MCM or modern than terrazzo. It is easy to find terrazzo downtown in some of the older office buildings and a couple of the courthouses (the federal courthouse on Rusk has 11 floors of it) but all white terrazzo is pretty rare. Do you mean white base with other colored marble chips, or white base with white marble chips?