Category: Flooring

Kurnool Grey Stone in Ahmedabad

Some pictures of this beautiful Indian natural stone, Kurnool Grey. Don’t confuse this with Kota Stone; of course, Grey in Kota Stone looks as beautiful one can say.

Pay attention to the surface finishes. Do your eyes love what they are seeing? Your feet will surely love the feeling touching this surface.

Size is 1200 mm * 600 mm.

A large slab of Kurnool Grey natural stone displayed outdoors, surrounded by other stone slabs.
Kurnool Grey natural stone in a raw format, showcasing its textured surface finish.
A large Kurnool Grey natural stone slab displayed vertically among other stone pieces, showcasing its textured surface and gray color.
Stack of Kurnool Grey Indian natural stone slabs with a smooth surface finish, displayed outdoors.

Couple of more pictures in a different size: 600 mm * 600 mm. Surface finish is again a little different from what you see above.

Close-up of stacked Kurnool Grey natural stone slabs, showcasing their smooth surface finish.
Close-up of a piece of Kurnool Grey natural stone resting on a newspaper, showcasing its textured surface.

Not just on Kurnool Grey, these amazing surface finishes can be achieved on other natural stone or granite. And all of them feel amazing. If you haven’t experienced K. K. Stones’ surface finishes on Indian natural stone, it’s time to try.

Discuss your requirements with us.

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The Patterns of Matrix Marble

Time to share glimpses of Matrix Grey-Black  Marble.

Close-up view of Matrix Grey-Black Marble, showcasing its deep colors and bold patterns.
A large slab of Matrix Grey-Black Marble with deep textures and bold patterns, displayed indoors.
A large slab of Matrix Grey-Black Marble with deep colors and bold patterns, displayed in a warehouse setting.

These are large slabs and meant for large spaces. The deep colors and bold patterns of the marble also demand good space.

Is there a big-space that you are working on?

Almost feels like 3D. Has to be given space to enjoy its beauty.

One might ask, what if we want to use this in small spaces? In which case we would say that you need to figure and determine the color-palette for your space, especially indoors. Then you may be able to make great use of this marble.

We will write a bit more on Color Palette for your projects as time goes by.

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Chocolate Stone

Work in progress… Flooring the area of a bungalow entrance and courtyard with a combination of Chocolate stone (with leather-finish surface) and Yellow stone.

Picture taken in near dark. Looks pretty?

No fad, this will look great for ages.

View of a bungalow entrance and courtyard featuring a combination of chocolate stone with a leather-finish surface and yellow stone tiles, captured in low light. A person is standing nearby, and the area appears to be in progress with some water on the surface.

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Black Flowers!

Natural Stone, in its default shape and condition, is a product of ‘creativity’. We do certain things to make it suitable for our purposes like landscaping, indoor flooring, paving et al. But this is something else.l, have a look.

Black Kadappah Stone in a floral form, modular pattern cutting for outdoor or semi-outdoor flooring. Impressive? We like it.

Black Kadappah Stone in a floral pattern, arranged for outdoor or semi-outdoor flooring, set on a green lawn.

When are we going to agree on one sacred for Kadappah? Earlier it used to be Cudappah and on the picture it is Kadapa! All are the same, in case you write in for inquiry.

Have a look at another picture below.

Black Kadappah stone flooring in a floral modular pattern, reflecting shiny surfaces with surrounding greenery.

An applied form of the Kadappah floral form. As is evident it is a sort semi-outdoor sort of space.

Have an interesting project coming up? Can you imagine your space petalled with Kadappah Stone Flowers?

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Black and Spotted

Dear Landscaper, once you floor your space like this, do you think there’s a chance folks visiting and walking through such spaces will ever get bored?

You place any object, any furniture, any insane color and this floor will make everything feel in place. No joke!

Enduring Black Beauty, if you can call it that! 🙂

A textured stone floor featuring irregularly shaped dark stones separated by white grout, creating a unique and artistic pattern.

Got a project going where you have space for such flooring?

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Giraffe Cover | Crazy Kota Stone Flooring

Have a look at this.

As is evident this is outdoor flooring. Looks fabulous? What do you think?

I feel such randomly shaped Kota Stone would be stunning indoors as well. The space between the stone pieces can be much much finer. And the floor can polished glossy like mirror.

For a moment, looking at this picture, it felt like Giraffe skin 😀.

Close-up of Kota Stone outdoor flooring with randomly shaped pieces, showcasing a polished surface and surrounding steps.

Do you think your project has space for such work? What is the color palette you’ve imagined for your project?

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Brown Stone Flooring

Used in flooring at one of the bungalows at Suramya Bungalows Ahmedabad.

What is the test of good flooring?

Mason’s fixing?

Visual beauty?

Or something else too?

How do you feel with your bare feet on the floor, sitting, standing, or walking? That is a deep test.

(Stupid vitrified tiles won’t pass that test. Try it. Sorry, don’t try it even though they are convenient to lay and easy to print with any pattern.)

Close-up of a tan-colored floor tile next to a grassy area with a green plant, featuring a subtle texture and a hand lightly resting on the edge of a raised platform.

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Crazy? Or Most Natural?

We give strange names on occasions. Such that the most natural is called CRAZY.

Look at this outdoor flooring. Since this brown stone doesn’t have regular four corners and size of machine-cut slabs, this is called Crazy Brown. And yet this is much closer to nature, and will feel so much more attractive and ‘earthy’ as time passes by.

Uneven brown stone flooring with various shapes and sizes, creating a natural and earthy appearance.

Actually, looking at this kind of flooring one might say that the indoor flooring done using vitrified tiles is the most crazy thing we do! What is your sense?

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Flooring Patterns

We can broadly classify flooring patterns into 2:

  • Natural Pattern
  • Man-made Pattern

And a third pattern that can probably have a balanced mix of the above 2. Let’s call it Mixed Pattern.

Using large slabs of stone, granite or marble in flooring means you are depending on the natural patterns to lend beauty to the flooring and over-all design of the space.

On the other hand, using stone, granite or marble of relatively smaller dimensions in flooring means you are introducing man-made patterns to combine with natural patterns to lend beauty to the design of the space.

Big slabs would disappoint your eyes sooner than latter. Look at the flooring of places you visit carefully.

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Floor Design using Marble

Have a look at these pictures. This floor was done about 2 decades back. May be more.

A beautifully crafted floor featuring a star-shaped design made from various stones, showcasing intricate border detailing and an organic layout.

This is a view while sitting on the sofa on this very floor.

Now check this picture taken from a height.

Aerial view of a living room showcasing a beautifully designed patterned floor with a floral motif, white marble finish, and decorative stone borders. A sofa and coffee table are arranged, with a television visible in the background.

Amazing isn’t it! The architect did a such fine job of defining the boundaries of the drawing-room space. Non-rectangular! Organic. Has a charm. Never tiring.

Those border lines, with winding-vine like look, are done in stone. That’s right! Such neat hands. Takes an artist to do such stuff. KARIGARI!

Here’s one more picture, again taken from a height, at a slightly different angle:

Aerial view of a beautifully designed floor featuring a star-shaped pattern in warm colors, with intricate stone borders and surrounding areas highlighting the organic layout of the drawing-room and dining space.

On the extreme right, a couple of steps above, is the dining space.

As charming as this floor is, it took a lot of patience on the part of the house-owner along with others, to see it through. Do you have patience to create a beautiful floor for your house?

Once you get such a beautiful floor done, it would dictate the choice for other elements of interior design of the house. And floor doesn’t allow the bar for quality and artistry go any lower.

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Floor Design using Natural Stone

Look at this floor. Good chance that if you like watching TV you may have come across this.

Oh no! This floor wasn’t featured for its beauty in the first place, it just happens to be a part of a corruption story from Delhi. You guessed it?

Irrespective of the story, just look at the floor. This floor couldn’t be done without top-notch masons and natural stone.

Interior view of a living room featuring elegant brown leather sofas, a wooden coffee table with a stone top, and a patterned floor with a stylish border.

Isn’t it wow!

So many house-builders and owners aren’t patient enough for a thing that will (or should) last probably a lifetime or many lifetimes.

Don’t let vitrified tiles fool your senses.

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Non-Kejriwal Stone

Aha! I am curious now. Because of this scandal of opulence, what is going to happen? Will Dior Pearl White marble from Vietnam become more popular in India?

I picked this picture of Dior Pearl White marble from a website. Have a look.

A large slab of Dior Pearl White marble displayed on a stand, featuring a polished surface with a smooth texture.

At K. K. Stones Ahmedabad, you are going to get only Non-Kejriwal stone. So far that’s the status. That doesn’t mean that you won’t get beautiful stone. Indian white marble is also exquisite.

There are 2 things you must be particular about:

  1. Limiting the size of the stone tile
  2. Staying patient while the mason lays a neat floor for you

When doing up a house, typically customers look for huge slabs of stone as a measure of beauty. We recommend smaller slabs or tiles of stone and the mason’s work as a measure of beauty.

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Beyond 4 Sides of a Rectangle

How is this for your floor? If not indoors, then what about outdoors? Can you appreciate the surface finish of these multi-sided irregular stones?

I’ve observed that plenty of rooms are floored with the same kind of gigantic rectangular slabs of stone or marble, irrespective of the size of surface area to be floored.

Big slabs are faster and may be easier to lay, and therefore quite easily, also quite ugly to look at. The other day I was at someone’s place in Shahibag, Ahmedabad, and they’ve put huge glossy slabs on the walls! Alright!

One measure for those who are getting their interior/exterior design done:

Size of the surface area of the floor / Size of a rectangular slab (or stone piece)

The the greater the result, the better you would feel when the floor is done.

For example, if the room is 15ft * 12ft, and the slab size is 6ft * 2.5ft, it will take just 12 slabs to floor the entire area. Now think if the stone size is 1.5ft * 1.5ft, it will take 80 stone-pieces to floor the area.

Which is a better option? 16 or 80? For your eyes? For your feet? For creative floor surfacing? For the long term?

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Square Red Stone and Some Grass Between

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.

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Big slabs

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!

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Amphitheatre

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.

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Double Color Natural Stone

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.

A worker lifting a large natural stone slab from the back of a truck, with other stacked slabs visible in the background.
Close-up of a natural stone tile showing rich variable colors of orange and gray, highlighting the unique patterns and texture.

Ha! Green, Yellow, Gray combos!

Close-up of a unique double-color natural stone surface featuring a blend of orange, gray, and beige tones.

What are you looking for?

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Flamed Cera Grey Granite

Flamed Cera Grey Granite, 30mm thick slabs, requirement fulfilled by K K Stones, Ahmedabad.

For your requirements…

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Shapes of Tile or Slab

That’s Black Granite in irregular shapes

When choosing granite or other stone for flooring or paving, what really matters? It seems to me currently 2 major points play a role while making a choice:

  1. The color of stone
  2. The natural pattern of stone surface

Surprising when I pay just a little more attention.

Why isn’t ‘shape’ of tile or stone not considered at all! Typically it’s rectangle! Or sometimes, square. Why?

The variations of natural stone coupled with and cut in different shapes can produce a magic-like floor. No, I’m not talking about just outdoors or for landscaping. I’m talking about indoors too. Here, have a look at this indoor floor:

Plenty of variations and colors in Indian granite and other natural stone to create a floor like that. If you want to execute something like that in Ahmedabad…

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“Why slab it when you can stile it!”

Increasingly now, and over a long time, I observe that natural stone tiling trumps natural stone slabbing.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that all floor needs to be tiled instead of slabbed. We find plenty of floors that are a combination of tiles and slabs and they look good.

But over last many years, so many folks have slabbed their floors edge to edge. As years pass by that doesn’t look as lovely, especially in smaller spaces, though always lovelier and more pleasing than the ‘vitrified’ tiles.

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Multi-color Flooring

Multi-stone multi-color outdoor flooring. Would you ever get bored with this? This is for eternity. And it shall grow on the residents as it ages.

If you desire to execute such a floor in Ahmedabad or (elsewhere too if you are willing to make equal effort as we do), then we can definitely help.

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Black & Red Granite Floor

This flooring was done way way back in 1996! 23 years! Imagine! It looks as good and as shining as it looked in the beginning.

Apart from the shine and sheen though, what’s amazing is that it looks more beautiful as it ages. Folks these days, builders and house owners alike, out of convenience so often lay vitrified tiles; yes, my office floor has vitrified tiles and it is no match to this granite floor.

Granite has natural and endlessly fascinating variations, whereas vitrified tiles are printed with the same print lifted normally copied and pasted from some piece of natural stone.

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Flooring with Triangles

K K Stones multi color marble flooring meir guri

That’s a multi-colored marble floor done in a restaurant in Tel Aviv by the designer Meir Guri.

Looks wonderful, doesn’t it!? Haven’t seen anything like this in Ahmedabad or for that matter anywhere in India yet. In fact, this should look amazing  in a mix of colors of India Granite too. If you think you would love doing such a floor visit our stockyard, and we shall help you accomplish a floor like that.

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