10 reasons for natural stone
Decorative natural stone
10 reasons for natural stone
Decorative natural stone: are you also wondering why you should choose natural stone? Customers often ask their architects and interior designers this question. To make the decision easier, we have put together the ten most important reasons why natural stone is the right choice for your home.
1. Beauty
Stone is a natural material. Its properties depend on the type and quality of the minerals that make up each variety. A big advantage over other building materials: it can be combined with all of them. Natural stone is not an industrial product. It has a natural origin and shows its colourful history.
2. 100% natural material
As the name says, natural stone is found directly in nature. Producing it takes no energy of its own, only for quarrying and processing, which is practically negligible compared with other building materials. Stone waste is usually used directly to backfill the quarries the stone came from, or put to other uses. In this cycle of quarrying and processing, nature ultimately loses nothing.
3. Suitable for any home
Decorative natural stone contains no substances harmful to health and nothing that pollutes the environment. It is completely safe, non-flammable and releases no dangerous substances in a fire. Natural stone also needs no auxiliary materials such as environmentally harmful or hazardous coatings before use.
4. Variety
No other natural building material has as many textures and colours as natural stone. Thanks to the many surface finishes, the variety is almost unlimited. This wide choice allows builders and architects to adapt natural stone to any setting. With its visual and technical properties, it is often the first choice, because it meets every requirement of a building material.
5. Its uniqueness
Natural stone is extracted from the quarry in large blocks and cut to the required size with special tools. The slabs can be adapted to any size and any conditions, and to any shape you like, not just cubes or rectangles. Everything to order. The variety of natural stone, individual processing and the many design options underline the uniqueness of this building material.
6. Quality and durability
While some building materials lose their appeal, quality and shine over the years, stone keeps its natural beauty, colour and texture for many years. Many natural stones are like wine and only reveal their full elegance after a few years. Care is simple and inexpensive. The service life is exceptionally long: well designed and built, natural stone buildings stand for thousands of years, as history shows.
7. Three-dimensionality
Natural stone looks three-dimensional. The 3D design and lively surface create an interesting play of light and shadow. Slabs like these stand out and look best as wall cladding.
8. A fair price
If price is the deciding factor, consider this: if you calculate the total costs of building materials over 30 years or more, natural stone is no more expensive than comparable synthetic materials. The slightly higher initial investment soon pays for itself. Think too of the low maintenance costs and the exceptionally long service life.
9. Saving energy
Natural stone conducts heat very well and stores it excellently. With underfloor heating it achieves the best efficiency. For outdoors we recommend light shades. They reflect heat and heat up neither the surroundings nor the interior.
10. Resistance
Natural stone is a long-lasting, resistant and high-quality material for eternity. As a floor covering, it suffers the least damage of all materials.