Natural Stone

Natural Stone

Nothing conveys a sense of permanence and timeless elegance like natural stone. Stone gets more beautiful with age as the colour mellows and the surface wears to a smooth patina. No two pieces of stone are ever identical, which is part of its unique and endearing charm.
Stone's natural hues and textures provide the perfect partnership with surrounding materials such as wood, steel and glass. It works in harmony with traditional and contemporary settings to create urban or rustic appeal.

Stone comes in an impressive variety of types, colors, surface textures and patterns from all over the world. The rapid progress in stone extraction and fabrication technologies made stone more affordable and accessible to the public. Today we are witnessing an ever-growing interest in utilizing stone as a building material among architects, commercial real estate developers and homeowners. If you are in the process of home remodeling, you are likely considering using natural stone tiles or solid stone in your home design.

Smoother stones like limestone, travertine, and marble are popular choices in the Gold Coast market.

Limestone: With its subtle patterning and typically pale neutral colors limestone has a strong contemporary appeal.

Limestone comprises a broad family of different types of stone, which vary significantly in character. Limestone is softer than igneous rocks such as granite; nevertheless it shares a timeless and monumental quality that is common to all types of stones. Some varieties of limestone are very hard and dense which makes them suitable for most interior and exterior applications including kitchen and bath countertops. Limestone offers sure footing when wet which makes limestone a good candidate for flooring in the bathroom. Aesthetically speaking limestone is usually pale in colour ranging in earthy shades from off-white to gold-hued and light gray. With its subtle textural pattern and neutral color palette limestone is especially welcome in contemporary style spaces.

Travertine: Like most other stone, travertine can also be traced back to the humble limestone. Its composition is much the same.
The evaporation of water in limestone caverns formed what we know today as travertine, in the form of stalactites and stalagmites.
Travertine has one advantage over other natural stones: it hardens with age and exposure. Due to its origins and 'structure', it can be processed in many ways, leading to different visual effects. Prior to polishing, the 'cracks' can be filled either in a matching colour or with clear poly-resin, or even in a contrasting colour, in each case changing the appearance quite dramatically.

Travertine is one of the world's oldest building materials and certainly has stood the test of time - just look at the Colosseum in Rome! Today it finds use in the form of floor tiles, wall cladding, steps and sills, for paving, as mantle pieces and surrounds for windows and doors.

Sandstone: Sandstone will add beauty to your home or office. It is available in many different forms – paving, tiles, pool coping, wall cladding, column capping, feature walls, window sills, stairs, furniture (benches, tables, etc), water features, sculptures & crazy pave slabs or off-cuts.

Gosford Sandstone is recognized as one of the premium sandstones of the world & is totally unique to Australia. Products from this Quarry are manufactured & shipped from within Australia, & cut to your individual requirements.

Individual & personalized designs can be custom made for you, so you have a rare “one of a kind” item. You can also request additional manufacturing – bull-nosing, rock-facing & stone detailing.

Stone Cladding is a great way to decorate your home, both inside & out. It can be used for feature walls, niches, columns, as kitchen island bench faces, as a bathroom feature, on fireplaces, around BBQ areas, on fences, in water features, on pool retaining walls & as house cladding.

It is available in a huge range of colours, sizes & different profiles - From white to black, from thin to thick, from flat to chunky, from symmetrical to irregular.

The only limit is your imagination!

Marble is a metamorphic stone formed by the re-crystallization of limestone under the intense geological pressure and heat. This process creates stone with a very tight crystalline structure and small but definite porosity.

Marble can be of two types, one composed of calcite and the other of dolomite. Depending on its mineral composition it varies in colour from brilliant white through to black, and includes shades of blue-grey, red, yellow and green. Substances included in minor amounts during formation cause the veining, clouds, mottling and shadings in marble.

Natural marble has a wide range of colours, texture, crystals and various finishing techniques that allow it to dress every type of ambience.

Marble is an expressive material and by its various types can make your room space look sophisticated or simple, warm or cool, elegant or rustic, sumptuous or minimalist. The eternal life of marble is disconnected from fashion and enhances the beauty of your environment in the most natural way.

Marble flooring adds a rich, elegant touch to any space. Polished marble is usually preferred for formal style interiors and honed and tumbled marble is more suitable for contemporary interiors where a softer, warmer look is desired.

Marble tiles are used for entrances and bathrooms primarily. Polished marble scratches and stains easily and loses its polish if acids, such as wine and vinegar, are spilt on it. This rules it out for kitchens and dining areas.

Granite is the second hardest stone after diamond and is therefore an extremely durable material. Granite is magmatic intrusive rocks consisting mainly of quartz with granular structure and crystals of various dimensions and colours. Granite has high resistance to abrasion, compression and pollution.

Thanks to its excellent chemical, physical and mechanical properties granite is a proper material for high-traffic areas as well an exterior claddings and floors.

Available in polished (high glossy), flamed (antique rough) or honed (smooth and matt), with the advantage that its hard surface finishing remains basically unchanged. Granite is very hard, resists scratching and needs minimal grouting joints.

Granite comes in an amazing array of colors and textures. Granite tiles are available in various sizes and thicknesses and are used for indoor and outdoor applications for flooring, cladding walls, stairs or kitchens. Some granites have a quite spectacular appearance and are used for their visual impact, such as on facades.

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