K. K. Stones | Natural Stone, Marble & Granite Suppliers since 1982
43+ Years dedicated to 4300+ Projects, in, around, and sometimes, far away from Ahmedabad
Have a look at this ensemble of panels!
It’s a very wide landscape shot taken with a small-sensor camera, but I hope you get the idea.
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Hand-chiseled 7 inches thick natural stone for steps in your garden. Once laid, nothing much to bother about.
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Beautiful variations of color and rock texture for your walls.
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Fancy these for your project?
What’s the size?
Length * Width: 100 mm * 100 mm
Thickness: 22 mm to 27 mm
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Indoors or outdoors, do up your walls with rock-face granite. Now this is in one color. And it looks right. You may mix a few granite colors of your choice. Couple of examples below.
I tell you rock-face looks and feels much better than glossy glass-face granite. It is decorative without feeling decorative!
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Preparing this substantial and considerably thick block of granite for a name plate. It’s solid and heavy. This will be installed at the entrance of a project. The name may be written in brass and fixed on to this. Can you visualize? Can you guess the size of this block? Looks good?
These cobbles have 10mm groove at the edges. These are different from the usual cobble stones we see. And will accord a different look to the landscape.
Over time, natural stone changes and finds its own look, as it interacts with the elements. Would be interesting to observe these.
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It’s a granite waterfall created using Black Granite, at a bungalow project. Actually you can create such waterfalls in a variety of ways, using a variety of granite. Red, White, Brown… Can be multi-hued too.
You can’t see the water yet. It will start falling soon. 🙂 Actually we’ll update with a picture of water falling. Soon!
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Don’t mind the mobile phone camera. If folks understood how lenses work, we would be careful about the limitations of tiny cameras.
That’s Red Natural Stone for you. At a farm house. You can try putting any kind of vitrified tiles, and try growing grass in between, the way you see in the pictures, and you won’t feel a thing. And you won’t get a picture like this.
There’s another point here. You see squares have a special magic in matters of flooring. I feel they look better than rectangles.
But then one who understands that beautiful lack of symmetry looks more beautiful than beautiful symmetry, would not prefer squares. That’s for another post. This red looks ravishing at night with some dim lights around.
They are stones, they don’t come packed. But when they are laid, there’s no comparison. Have a look below, clicked at a recent project for a bungalow.
You are not going to get vitrified tiles for such beauty. You may think it’s just a matter of outdoors vs indoors, but it isn’t quite. It’s a matter of patience and sensibilities. It’s a matter of what your sole (you may even say, soul) wants to feel.
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Welcome to this view of Mint White Stone. There’s no substitute to this. Can’t be created in vitrified tile factories.
These are 50mm thick, no less. Where will you use these? Think. Wherever you do, it may give you great company every time.
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell in “JUSTINE”
What response do those vitrified tiles generate?
What response does that interior design generate?
Do they even generate anything? Anything worthwhile?
Just look at this bungalow! I often pass by this house on my walks, mostly in the evenings.
How beautifully charmingly it ages! An interestingly done facade with natural stone. Can any of the artificially contrived surface materials, that folks and interior designs use so often, match this beauty?
One of the things about this is also that this stone is glossy like glass. Glass means maintenance, at some point, will be a pain.
It’s been a trend. Bigger and bigger slabs of marble and granite for flooring. As if bigger is better. Or, bigger is better looking.
Actually watching the slabs in a huge stockyard is quite different from watching the slabs as floor amidst the enclosing walls.
In a huge stockyard, a big slab may still not look as big. In a room, a big slab may seem to exhaust the floor.
Big rectangular slabs look downright ugly. Irregular ones may still look much better. But you gotta see the small irregular slabs, in fact more in the form of flagstone, as part of floor. Unfortunately, even with so many images proliferating on the web, in the catalogues and magazines and elsewhere, it’s hard to compare different kinds of floors side by side.
Big slabs look ugly. Sure, we are not rich builders or famous architects. We are mere stone suppliers, or as they use that term in the SAP software, we are mere vendors. What do the vendors know!
Which building in Ahmedabad would attract you enough to spend a good part of your day in its presence?
That sounds like a contrived question. Let me re-attempt.
Is there any built space in Ahmedabad that you may want to spend all your day in?
At one point, when I was a child, the garden in Gandhinagar offered that space. But then children have fascinating ways of turning their surroundings into entertaining spaces.
Now, a member would immediately say, Karnavati Club.
Recall more such spaces? We are building more buildings. But those buildings can’t seem to hold us, accommodate us. In fact, the more time we spend among such buildings, the greater is the feeling to go away somewhere far, somewhere where the memory and sights of these buildings can be obliterated.
Such is the city we’ve built and continue to build.
Some time back I posted a work-in-progress pic of this site. I think it’s now completed. IIT Gandhinagar amphitheatre. You can’t dream of building something like this with vitrified tiles.
Got some more of the ever-rich variable double-color natural stone. Not vitrified tiles. In fact, in vitrified tiles you may even have rainbow colored tiles, all same-looking and printed.
Ha! Green, Yellow, Gray combos!
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What we witness in our age is a serious serious deficit of patience. Gurus tell us and we acknowledge, and then we fall back to rectangulism as soon as we come to interior design and such matters.
In the background you see a gate made about 600 years back in Lucknow. 600 years! What would it take to make something as beautiful right now? Don’t tell me money!
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What the soles desire,
Not necessarily what the eyes see,
That’s how the floors must be.
A glimpse of truck-load of natural stone @ K K Stones, Ahmedabad.
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Your choice of flooring for your house depends on quite a few factors. One of the factors is how does it feel to the soles of your feet. Repeat:
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET?
But then now so many of us wear slippers most of the times when we are indoors. And so the feeling to the soles is kind of lost. And then flooring becomes just a matter of visual pleasure.
This looks good, that looks good.
I am confused.
Oh this color is not so good. Let’s check some more colors.
Oh this doesn’t match the color of the table!
Oh, but we chose that laminate. And so this color will look good.
Our senses have gone for a toss and so has our sense of designing. But some small reminders may help. But then who reminds whom… When? After the interior design is horribly done, it’s all a matter of criticisms, odd expressions and jealousies.
See this.
This wall is clad with White Mint stone (in shot blast finish). Let the project get over and this is going to look one of a kind.
There’s this semi-fraud-acquaintance who took a lot of assistance from my Dad in getting stone and design related work for his big house project. I am compelled to call it house coz it’s hard to call it bungalow.
One of the features of this man’s project is the numerous kinds of stone and surface material he has used to garnish his house with, both inside and outside.
Needless to say, I was appalled at the way it all felt when I got a chance to visit this site once, more than a year back. The work’s still going on I hear.
Taj Mahal is primarily a one stone work.
Kailash Temple, they say, is not just one stone, it is one-rock work. Incredible, isn’t it.
Now, for the sake of funny arguments, a professional like an architect or an interior designer or a status-symbol-maker may say but these are public monuments, not houses for living. So let me ask another question.
Would you want a house that looks as gorgeous as a monument or a house that looks like a hodge-podge of materials?
Funny argumenter may even say, “But monuments require more money and space to make.” Really? Is that so?
The practitioners and house-makers of today’s age seem to earn a lot from the use of materials instead of the use of imagination. Bitter and easier said and true wherever I see.
In Ahmedabad, you can witness the architectural obscenities in the form of flats almost everywhere you go. Especially the newly developed or developing areas.
Contrast Ahmedabad’s flats with these, built somewhere in China. Out here wonky urban planners and funny builders are trying to extract every little penny out of the FSI allowances and policies by making cubic and cuboidal blocks typically painted in horrible greys and browns.
We are looking for a builder to work with who attempts something like this.
Distinct and charming in its own way! You may want to check some more pictures here.
Please forgive them, the folks at Mail Online (dailymail.co.uk) who have written the linked article and bizarrely titled it Bizarre ‘pyramid-shaped’ building in China becomes an internet sensation.
Towards some work in progress… 30mm thick Granite slabs. Rock solid.
Wow! Just look at that! You can’t have vitrified tiles match any of this. Just keep watching this floor. Therapeutic!
Even if you try, you can’t get something like this in vitrified tiles. That feeling, that earthiness, that coarseness is only possible with Indian granite like this.
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That’s the Chicken Church of Indonesia. You can’t make such lovely spaces with vitrified tiles. In fact, no lovely spaces deserve vitrified tiles. But you can trust natural stone and marble and granite to help build lovely spaces and lovely places.
Are any machine-made copy-paste tiles any match to this?
And yet mad folks of today vitrify!
What a waste!
What a waste!
The other day I was at PVR Acropolis to watch Tapsee Pannu starrer Thappad. While the movie felt great, PVR’s renovation felt classic and plastic at the same time. When you visit there you’ll notice. The space feels spacious, the floor feels all plastic (courtesy the famed vitrified tiles).
Somewhere in the initial pages of Gavin McCrea’s Mrs Engels, there’s this exchange between Jenny and Lizzie, I can’t forget to share.
In her book, there’s naught worse than a new house that looks new. She said so just now before we left. ‘So long as the thirst for novelty exists independently of all aesthetics considerations,’ she went, ‘the aim of Manchester and Sheffield and Birmingham will be to produce objects which shall always appear new. And, Lizzie, is there anything more depressing than that lustre of newness?’
The lustre of newness is depressing indeed on most occasions. And in the case of copy-paste vitrified tiles, plastic too.
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