Thursday, July 23, 2009

Marble or Porcelain...can't tell the difference!
















Now here is something for the rich and poor, corporate and residential, commercial and retail, natural and man-made, to be precise...for every discipline and market.

Natural stone is out and porcelains are in...Designer using natural stone is frowned upon especially considering the current economy, reason being- you pay a fortune for something that weathers and needs a lot of maintenance.

Porcelains on the other hand are exclusively manufactured, mostly in Italy but still very economical, easy to install hence less labor and needs no maintenance- spill coffee, wine, oil, nail paint & all you only need is soap and water to wash it off.

You can now get porcelain tiles that are as big as 4' x 4', are through body which means the color goes all the way through, are double loaded which means if there is a print on the tile it goes fractions of inches inside the tile that gives it a texture and makes it high definition and is rectified to give some smallest grout joints possible.

Some smart manufacturers also have factories in China that have Italian machinery, Italian supervisors but Chinese labor, so that they could achieve that same quality at an inexpensive price point.

To date you can even get an exact replica of marble/granite or French limestone in a porcelain tile for 10 times less and no one would lift an eyebrow. It doesn't end there...for those 'less is more' styled people there is an industrial cement look, metallic look, linen look, Swarovski and glass embedded tiles, any color, any pattern, any size ranging froma 1"x1" mosaic to a 4'x4' and I can go on and on and on...

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