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Does my house look ‘new’?

There is this strange desire among house owners who are renovating their houses or building houses anew, to make their houses look ‘new’.

‘New’ is so mercurial, temporal, elusive, that even while building the ‘new’, the ‘new’ may stop feeling ‘new’. Or right after the day of ‘house warming’, the newness may evaporate like water in desert.

Is it this desire for ‘new new new’ that makes folks select mirror-finished surface for their indoor flooring, irrespective of the material: granite, marble or vitrified tiles?

Look at this floor for example:

Close-up of indoor granite flooring with reflective surface and grains in shades of brown.

You would have guessed that this is granite with grains in shades of brown. If you look carefully, you might also see that it is reflective. And yet it is not mirror-finished surface. No, it is not matte surely.

Think about this.

Do you want a house that looks ‘new’, or do you want a house that feels neat and clean and cozy?

Mirror-finished surfaces often look new but also non-cozy. Beautiful perhaps but quite sterile.

The picture above shows granite flooring with a rather alluring surface finish. To my senses, ideal for indoor flooring where folks are looking for long-term beauty and warmth and a certain comfort and coziness. Mind you, this finish and feeling can’t be replicated using vitrified tiles. Perhaps not even with natural marble. Granite suits the best.

Would you try this finish for indoor flooring for your project?

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We cannot manufacture natural patterns

It is impossible.

You can’t print the endless, you can’t print the beauty of the endless quirks.

And that is why, irrespective of the price we put on stone and pay, stone is arguably the most precious thing available for our experiences and spaces and movements.

Vitrified Tile is an abomination in the name of creating spaces for our living and for our experiences. Sure it costs much cheaper than most natural stone but the story typically stops at just that. Over a life time, you can’t fall in love with the vitrified. It will glaze and gloss and you won’t understand what’s really the loss!

Check this picture of Mint Stone piece for modular elevation design.

Close-up of modular stone pieces arranged in a strip-like pattern, showcasing different textures and finishes, ready for dispatch.

This is these modular strip-like of pieces of stone are packed and dispatched to the destination. One picture from a recently dispatched order.

Packed boxes of stone pieces ready for dispatch, arranged neatly in a truck.

These modular wall elevation patterns can be done in many ways and many combinations. For your project, remember to call us and we may be able to contribute.

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Work in Progress | Resort at Udaipur

A view of a resort construction site in Udaipur, showcasing a pathway made with multi-color machine-cut cobbles, surrounded by landscaping and mountains in the background.

Udaipur is the destination for ‘destination wedding’, right?

This picture was clicked last year. A resort project in progress. By now, it would all be over and done I guess.

You can see the laying of multi-color machine-cut cobbles with surface dimension of 5.5″ * 5.5″. Looks pretty even in the unfinished look.

Imagine vitrified tiles used in a city like Udaipur that has such rich architectural heritage. Blasphemy! And yet they are doing it all the over the place, the silly straight-lined aluminium panelled hotels.

At places, you see windows made with the classic royal palace-like window-frames, and then floored with vitrified tiles. Pukish when you realise the kind of minds at work.

Horror!

Do you have a project with a good expanse?

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Cloning Natural Stone Patterns

The other day I had a conversation with a trader of vitrified tiles.

I always poke them about the pathetic look of vitrified tiles. In response, this person proudly informed me about some more developments.

He said vitrified tiles are now offered in 16 different surface patterns also, all cloned from natural stone, to avoid the look of repetitive pattern.

On the other hand, there are some purchase managers and quality checkers who insist on repetitive uniform patterns in natural stone.

What do we do about this world? 😀

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Hill-shaped building

Transamerica Pyramid San Francisco

We are not ‘architects’. But since we supply material to building projects, it isn’t hard to keep wondering about the shapes these buildings take.

Of course, we don’t have a say in anything related to shapes whatsoever. We are mere suppliers of flooring material. At best, we may have a say in ‘quality’ of the flooring material we supply.

Why must a building always feel like a cuboid block? An efficiency-based answer is the best I can muster. That’s it. No more.

I would like buildings that are hill-shaped. We like hills, right? We love hills. If not hill-like they can at least turn out triangle-shaped if they have to be skyscrapers.

These guys in San Francisco named it Pyramid! Alright, let’s bear with it.

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