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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.

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The Art of Flooring?

For the walls, etching and engraving with CNC machine on stone often looks garish. No it isn’t about lack of intricacy or details. It is just that it is machined and that machined repetition is a bit discomforting.

It feels like on most occasions we are overdoing things just because we have found a easy way of machining all the stone-art that was done by hand.

Intricate floor design featuring ornate patterns and textures, showcasing detailed engravings on stone.

So what is this? It is not for walls. It is for the floors.

The immediate thought that strikes me is a comparison with the printed horrible-feeling vitrified tiles. This looks and feels far richer.

That said, apart from its visual attractiveness, I can almost sense that it would be quite pleasing to the touch of the soles of the feet. Can you sense that? How would it feel to you?

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Within the 4 Walls & Beyond

A winding stone pathway made of irregularly shaped slabs, surrounded by lush greenery and colorful flowers, leading towards a brick wall and gate.

It’s crazy how interior designers and architects and even sellers of stone and hyper-expensive luxury marble think. And it’s crazy how even house-owners who are doing up their houses think.

Just because typical house layouts have square or rectangular shaped rooms doesn’t mean the flooring has to be the same. If anything, the flooring needs to disrupt and break the TYRANNY OF THE SQUARE/ RECTANGLE.

How do you do that? You do that by using crazy, non-uniform, dimensional stone slabs and stone pieces.

What you see in the picture can easily be done outdoors. But it can look so so gorgeous indoors too. The question is, do we have the kaarigars to pull it off?

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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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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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Flat

I’ve never liked the word ‘flat’. But someone must have used for his/her purposes in some situation and it has stuck since then.

House, Home, Bungalow, Row-house, Tenement, Hut, Cottage, Stable, Shade, Shelter, Flat!

More and more folks buying flats are buying big slabs for flooring. If ‘flat’ the word weren’t this bad, now there’s enough done to ensure flatness in the look of a flat too.

Slabs ensure that the flat achieves its flatness. Wisdom would suggest, “Reduce the flatness from this flat”.

What would you do to reduce the flatness? Hire an interior designer?

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4 Feet by 4 Feet Stone Flooring

Here’s a picture of square 4′ * 4′ Kota Stone flooring.

Don’t mind the picture quality. Perhaps shot indoors with a mobile phone. Besides, it is always difficult to photograph floors or flooring, no matter the design or patterns. You never get the height you desire; and creating perspectives are to show attractive flooring indoors are so difficult. Remember, floors are for the soles of your feet and for your body in space, more than for your eyes.

The hues of Kota Stone are so consistent. Beautiful gradient even when hues differ.

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Flooring with Big Slabs

The bigger the slab, the smaller the space.

KK Stones

Machines are slicing bigger and bigger blocks of marble and granite, and creating huge slabs.

Looked in isolation these huge slabs look grand. Typically these slabs are stacked vertically in the stockyard, so eyes look at them as if looking at a wall or painting on a wall.

If the flooring area is huge, these slabs may look alright as floor under your feet. But if the flooring area is a typical flat, you are in for a space-scrunching feeling.

When you are out to buy marble or granite for flooring, check the floor space available between the walls demarcate the floor space. And then divide it by the number of slabs or piece of flat marble or granite you have in mind.

For example if the space is 20′ * 15′, then you get 300 sq. ft. of space for flooring. If you wish to use slabs of 8′ * 2’6″, that means each slab covers 20 sq. ft. of flooring space. So 15 slabs will cover your entire floor.

Instead of 15 slabs, try imagining 45 slabs. There you have a floor worth looking at.

To argue or debate further regarding the aesthetics of big slabs vs small slabs, we are available at our office.

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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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Cobblestones (work in progress)

A large pile of dark stone cubes scattered on the ground, surrounded by greenery and trees in a natural outdoor setting.

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.

A newly laid cobblestone driveway with a circular pattern, showcasing the intricate design and texture of the stones.

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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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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Judging Flooring

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.

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