Black and white: symbolic of light and dark, night and day, physical and spiritual, above and below, masculine and feminine, and the struggle between good and evil.
If you are in the process of renovating your home, or perhaps just replacing old and worn flooring, you are probably in the midst of researching various products; carpets, tile, linoleum, wood. I am not sure that there is any scientific proof that tiles stay cooler in the heat, but given the fact