Have you seen giant buildings talking to the skies, these buildings are constructed through some resources that made them prosper among our modern construction designs. One of these resources is natural stones that are considered as the important construction materials inverted from minerals. In old times, people used natural stones for constructional decoration and for this they used to travel miles, collect stones and carve them according to requirements. After all, natural stones show their beauty as well as your inspiration through different colors and styles. Additionally, these stones are healthy to be seen and some other useful benefits can be obtained from these natural resources. Here are some natural stones that should be used for decorative housing!
Bluestone
Walkthroughs, gardens and swimming pools should be decorated with natural bluestones that are considered as prettiest to be used. You just need to find them according to your needs of size, shapes, colors and textures.
Cobblestone
Cobblestones are mostly in irregular shape and found at garden-way, boundary walls, decorative fireplaces and aquariums’ bases. Cobblestone can’t be beaten by any other natural stones because it gives quite sophisticated look to your designs.
Dolomite
Dolomite is a carbonated mineral found in Italy made up of calcium magnesium carbonate. Dolomite used as a piece of decoration whether it has many others. Dolomites have many features and colors that made it more beautiful among others. Dolomites are usually seen as countertops, garden tiles, furnace linings and refractory bricks.
Flagstone
Flagstone is oldest stones on this planet that are being used for making strong and beautiful building structures. Flagstones are flat shaped stones that are considered as useful for many building purposes like walkways, boundary walls, flooring and roofing.
Granite
Granites are common stones seen everywhere at buildings and sceneries. Artists have great minds to carve these stones up to your inspirations and feelings. Granite usually obtains from igenous rock where it is in irregular shape and has coarse-grain texture. Granites found in many colors like black, red, maroon, cyan and green and originated from India, China, New Zealand, France etc. Granite can be used as countertops, boundary tiles, garden decorations, aquarium decorations, kitchen slabs and swimming pools.
Limestone
Limestone is one of the beautiful mineral stones which can be found at many locations of the world. Limestone has this name because of lime texture and color. It is lime to white imaged and usually comes from sedimentary rocks. Limestone has different applications like paint raw materials, protectants for road surface and building materials.
Marble
Marbles is trendy looked stone for your house or office because it has the nature power of attraction. Marble is so much famous because of its usage in ancient buildings like Taj Mahal, Masjid-e-Nabwi and Forts across the globe. Marbles originated from Pakistan, China, India, Greece and Turkey whereas mostly seen colors are white, grey, black, brown, purple, pink, green and blue.
Onyx
Onyx is one of the natural stones that can’t be seen commonly because of its preciousness. It has color bands instead of colors that are white, pink, brown, black, grey, green, blue, red and maroon. Onyx gives perfect beautiful shade which reflects in lights and most founded shape of onyx is fingernail.
Soapstone
Soapstone came from the metamorphic rocks that can be found across the globe as common one. It has texture like lathery foam that’s why it was named to soapstone. Soapstone is being used in many historical and modern ways like ancient sculptures, monuments and modern buildings.
Travertine
Travertine is one of the strongest forms of natural mineral stones ever seen because of its stronger color and strengthened molecules, so it is mostly seen as main building material in most of ancient constructions. Travertine originated from limestone whereas it has colors like tan, white and cream.
These natural stones bring life to our houses by creative charm in decorations so most of the artists choose them for taking inspirations. From South to East and North to West, every historical building tells its story through these beautiful and decorative mineral stones!