Marbles and Granites in Our Home

Building homes is a cumbersome task, because it needs a lot of planning and investment. The importance of this task even increases because your feelings, dreams and emotions are attached with your home. Therefore people plan to build homes with great care, prior home work and perfectness.


Well, there are several materials which are used in building homes, from sand, cement to iron rods, wood and adhesives. But once your main portion is complete, you concentrate over the interior finish of your home. For that people uses different types of marble, granite and other beautiful rocks in flooring, tiling of walls, as well as kitchen and bathroom interiors.

It's a fact and a strange thing to know that the best quality marbles are used mostly in bathrooms. Well using marble in your flooring and tiling will increase the durability and strength of your house. You need to invest a little more in beginning but you'll feel happy after watching its beauty everyday and knowing about the benefits of marbles and other rocks which you'll use in making your house.

The different sections of a home and suitable rocks for respective areas are as follows:

1. Drawing/Living Room - This is a common area of home where you spend most of your leisure time with family, this is the ideal places for your guests too. Simply, this is the place which is open to your neighbors, relatives, and guests, through which they come to know about your taste of color as well as concept of interior decoration. You need to choose best quality marbles with light shades matching with the coloring of drawing room. It can solve your purpose of flaunting your wealth as well as making your neighbors and relatives feel zealous.

2. Bed Room - The place where you sleep should contain lighter environment suiting your mood. The best option for your need will be a textured (matching your own choice and colors) collection of marble rocks. Avoid boring deep colors because you need to feel relax and happy when you enter your bedroom. Boring colored marbles will create a negative and bad impact. You need to create a romantic mood in your bedroom, because you spend your most intimate moments and enjoy the best part of your life with your life partner in this section of home only.

3. Bathroom and Kitchen - For kitchen Granite Counter Tops are best suitable option. Marble Manufacturers produce such counter tops according to several customized needs which will cater your need of having a stylish, durable and healthy kitchen. Granites are durable, and controls excess heat. Cleaning and maintenance is also easy. Where as in bathroom you can go for beige marbles or Italian collection of exquisite marbles to create extra pleasure for you and a romantic ambience

Kitchen countertops

When installed in a kitchen, countertops are usually about 25 1/2 inches (650 mm) from front to back and are designed to slightly-overhang standard kitchen base cabinets. This allows a convenient reach to objects at the back of the countertop. They often contain some sort of integrated backsplash to prevent spilled liquids from falling behind the cabinets and the face of the countertop may be decorated in ways ranging from plain to very elaborate. They may be cut away to accommodate the installation of sinks, stoves (cookers), ranges, and cooktops, or other accessories such as integrated drain boards and cutting boards.

Choosing the Right Kitchen Countertops

When choosing a kitchen countertop material, it is important to note that your choice would affect the aesthetic charm, resilience, durability, and operability.  In the selection process, it is important to look beyond the cost and meticulously compare the benefits of one material over the other.  To help you out on this, enumerated are some of the most popular materials used as countertops:

Natural Stone
 
Granite is among the most popular and most widely used stone for kitchen countertops.  It comes in a range of natural colors which may be in matte finishes or polished.  Being a player in the current kitchen remodeling trends, its texture and look is often found imitated by synthetic products.  But though others may be fooled, what many of these alternatives fail to copy is the inherent durability, resistance to fire and scratches and low porosity making it easy to clean.  

Marble looks luxurious but its recommended use is on islands and baking centers only.  A more porous material, it can be stained easily and needs more maintenance. 

Limestone, which comes in a limited set of color options, also exhibits high resistance on both impact and heat - making it a durable choice.

Laminate

Laminate is one of the most versatile when it comes to kitchen countertops design as it is available in a very wide variety of patterns, surfaces and colors.  It can also superbly duplicate the look and texture of other materials.  Among its advantages as countertops are they are inexpensive as well as highly resistant to stain, making them very easy to clean.  A laminate finish, though, could not withstand too much heat and are not an ideal surface for cutting.   

Engineered Stone or Quartz

Engineered stone is man-made quartz-composite kitchen countertop material.  This comes in a much wider color selection and has an even pattern compared with natural stone.  Other than not requiring any resealing, the product is said to be stronger than granite.   

Caring for your Stone

A natural stone is an investment that will give you many years of beautiful services. Granite, Quartz, Marble, Limestone and Travertine are natural products and simple care and maintenance will keep it looking beautiful. Here are some recommendations for routine care and cleaning.
How to Clean
Cleaning Procedures & Recommendations for the care of your natural stone.

Do's and Don'ts
- Do dust/ mop floors frequently.
- Do clean surfaces with mild detergent or stone soap.
- Do thoroughly rinse and dry the surface after washing.
- Do blot up spills immediately.
- Do protect floor surfaces with non-slip mats or area rugs and countertop surfaces with coasters, trivets or placemats.
- Don't use vinegar, lemon juice or other cleaners containing acids on marble, limestone, travertine, granite, Quartz or onyx surfaces.
- Don't use cleaners that contain acid such as bathroom cleaners, grout cleaners or tub & tile cleaners.
- Don't use abrasive cleaners such as dry cleansers or soft cleansers.
- Don't use scouring powders or creams. These products contain abrasives than may scratch the stone.
- Don't mix bleach and ammonia; this combination creates a toxic and lethal gas.
- To remove soap scum in the bath use a non-acid soap scum remover or a solution of ammonia and water (about ½ cup of ammonia to a 1 gal. of water). Frequent or over-use of an ammonia solution may eventually dull the surface of the stone.
- Once a year it is recommended to use a stone sealer to prolong the finish of your stone. Stone cleansers are available in our showroom