article thumbnail

"Travertine, Before And After"

How to Floor Tile

Travertine is a Natural Stone as you know, but did you know most of it is filled with grout? If you look at most Travertine Tile you will see that it is very porous on the unfinished side and that is because that is how most of it looks. They simple match the color and fill it with grout then polish the surface.

article thumbnail

Rigid core reigns with a focus on innovation

Floor Covering News

The Stone + Wood collection—my dad, [Michael Raskin, CEO], has been working on for two years, picking out the right colors and really fine-tuning it. Now we’ve taken it and we’re offering the same colors in a herringbone option—so a little bit more stylistic in design. We have eight different colors in the line.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Bigger Is Better: Large Format Porcelain Tile

Architectural Ceramics

AC’s Ancient Stone Collection in the color Black, used in a commercial setting. Pictured above, the 24″x24″ field tile in the color Black was used. Our collection’s options are simple: four colors in four sizes. The Beige color makes for a serene and simple way to start or end your day.

Porcelain 182
article thumbnail

Expect the Unexpected from Tile Variation

Architectural Ceramics

Check out our product page to see all four available color options from this readily available collection. Their catalog organizes their glazes by type and also provides an icon to illustrate how much each glaze will range in contrast (light to dark) and hue (color gradient). V3 tiles are those with moderate variation.

article thumbnail

When choosing between natural stone and quartz composites, Vadara makes that choice a breeze

Kitchen and Residential Design

My travertine floors somehow manage to hide dirt and be dirty at the same time and so we sweep them every day and mop them two or three times a week. Vadara’s new colors and patterns follow. Vadara’s full collection consists of 32 colors and each takes its inspiration from a natural stone.

article thumbnail

Kitchen and Residential Design: A Coverings preview

Kitchen and Residential Design

It comes in four colors and can be used outdoors. • Baldocer (Booth 1914) is bringing digital front-and-center to its porcelain collection, spotlighting its innovative methods for adding distinctive decorative touches, such as high and low reliefs, colorations, stone and wood lookalikes, and more.

Kitchen 76
article thumbnail

Queries and Quandaries: Stone Tile on Exterior Balcony

StoneDimensions

We enjoy working with stone because of the natural beauty and variation that occurs in the color and character of the material. But if we were testing the flexural strength of a travertine with an average of 800 lbs/in² and had a standard deviation of 500 lbs/in², that would indicate EXTREMELY scattered and inconsistent results.

Stone 40