10 reasons to choose natural stone
Decorative natural stone
10 reasons to choose natural stone
Decorative natural stone: are you also wondering about the real reasons to choose natural stone? Customers often ask architects and interior designers this question. To help you decide, we have put together the ten most important reasons, with plenty of positive and current facts on why natural stone is the right choice for your home.
1. Aesthetics
Stone is a natural material. Its individual properties depend on the type and quality of the minerals that make up each type of natural stone. This is also why it has a big advantage over other building materials: it can be combined with all of them. Natural stone is not an industrial product. It has its own natural origin and shows its colourful history.
2. A 100% natural material
As the name says, natural stone as a building material is found ready-made in nature. Making it requires no energy of its own: energy is only used to extract and process the stone, and compared with other building materials this is practically negligible. Unused stone waste mostly goes straight back to fill the quarries it was dug from, or is put to other practical uses. In this closed cycle of extracting and working natural stone, nothing is lost to nature in the end.
3. Suitable for every home
Decorative natural stone as a building material contains no substances or components that are harmful to health or pollute the environment. It is completely safe to use, it does not burn, and it releases no substances that would be dangerous to health in a fire. On top of that, natural stone needs no auxiliary or secondary substances before use, such as coatings that are harmful to the environment or dangerous.
4. Variety
No other building material in nature has as many structures and colours as natural stone. The many processes that formed it make its variety almost unlimited. This wide choice is one of the key reasons builders and architects can adapt natural stone to any setting and environment. Natural stone is often the first choice because of its excellent visual and technical properties, as it meets every layout and every requirement a building material has to fulfil.
5. Its individuality
Natural stone is extracted from quarries in large blocks and then cut to the sizes you need with special tools. Stone slabs can be cut to any required measurement and condition, and we can make any shape you want, not just cubes or rectangles. It all depends on what the customer wants. The variety of natural stone, individual finishing and the many other design and finishing options make this building material stand out even more.
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 types of natural stone are like wine and only reach their full elegance after a few years. Natural stone is easy and inexpensive to care for. Its lifespan is extremely long, and with good planning and construction, natural stone buildings can last for thousands of years, as history shows.
7. Three dimensions
Natural stone is three-dimensional, thanks to 3D shaping and its translucent surface, which creates an interesting play of light and shadow. Natural stone slabs like these are very striking and are most interesting when used as wall cladding in your home.
8. A reasonable price
If the price of natural stone is what will tip the balance, do consider the following facts. When the total cost of building materials is added up over 30 years or more, calculations show that natural stone is no more expensive than similar synthetic materials. The slightly higher investment at the start also pays off quickly. Also think about the low maintenance costs and the unusually long life of natural stone.
9. Saving energy
Natural stone conducts heat very well and stores a lot of heat, so it works best with underfloor heating. Outdoors we recommend light shades, which reflect heat and so do not warm up the surroundings or the indoor spaces.
10. Resistance
Natural stone is a durable, resistant, quality material that lasts for generations. It is the material least likely to be damaged when used for floors.