Natural marble in walls and floor cladding fills any interior with the feeling of natural, beauty and luxury. The richness of textures and a variety of natural shades of marble’s surface allows modern designers to create interiors of almost any style from traditional classic to cutting-edge directions.
Marble is noble, beautiful and truly practical material. It can withstand any operational loads and doesn’t lose its allure even in 20 years after installation. Thus only natural stone in walls and floor cladding is the most advantageous option from the perspective view.
Advantages of marble cladding
• Aesthetics and beauty. Rich palette of natural stone colors – every marble tile has its color and pattern. Natural tracery of veins and specks is never repeated.
• Permanence and usability. Floor and walls of marble cladding are not subjected to deformation; stone is resistant to abrasion and different mechanical damage during operation. High-quality natural stone cladding performed on walls and floor eliminates the possibility of scratches, cracks and chipping on its surface.
• Longevity. Marble used for cladding walls and floor is resistant to temperature differences, humidity and other weather conditions. Throughout its life natural stone doesn’t change its original appearance. The lifetime of such coverage is nearly unlimited.
• Ease of use. It’s simple enough to look after the marble tile. In order to wash off the dirt you need just wipe it with a damp cloth.
Variants of marble floor and wall cladding
Marble tile. Marble tiles are most often produced in such sizes: 305×305×10 mm (thickness can vary from 10 to 30 mm), 300×600×20 mm and 600×600×20 mm (thickness of such tiles can be of 20 or 30 mm). Installation of such a coating is no different from normal tiles – installation is performed through the joints and once dried they should be filled with troweling.
Large-size marble plates. Plates have approximate size of 3000×2000 mm. When installation they usually match marble patterns in order to make its veins uninterrupted giving the impression of the whole stone plate. For the floor and walls cladding they use marble plates of 20 mm thick but its shape and size are random and depend on the interior design.
Art panels. Due to modern technologies with numerical control pictures of marble are manufactured according to very different sizes and unusual good-looking ornaments.
Marble mosaic. In fact it’s a picture which can consist of a large number of various textures and colors of natural stone providing the unique effect to the floor and walls. The simplest example is double-colored tiles in chess order. When creating mosaic floors or walls marble is cut according to the pattern, no need in square or rectangular shape.
Marble floor and walls might be the most luxurious: fantastic natural tracery of veins, polishing gloss, wealth of colors. Marble floor and walls can be polished or made from artificially aged marble – “antique”.
While cladding with marble besides textures and colors you can combine different kinds of stone surfaces: matte, polished, leathered, thermally processed and artificially aged for “antique” style. The use of a particular texture allows playing with color contrasts and light effects.