Thursday, May 14, 2009

Accent with mosaic – ideas for low budget decoration and improvement

Stone mosaic is a long lasting decorative material. It makes and excellent accent in the interior. You can play with the mosaic in the interior and create the look and feel that is perfect for you.
Mixing and matching stone tiles of smaller sizes is a traditional way to create a mosaic pattern.
2”x2” tiles or smaller come mesh mounted and grew very popular among home owners and designers. It is commonly used as a backsplash. With combinations of stone, glass, and metal you can emphasize the countertop stone, or add colors to the space, or created a shiny reflection of the light and brighten up the room with polished glass and metal.
Renovating the entire room may be costly. But creating color spot can change the feel and look of the entire room.


For example, no need to renovate the entire bathroom. Placing colorful, contrasting mosaic around the mirror or creating a line through out the walls and playing with the matching or accenting paint color, adding matching candle holders can be an enexpensive way of giving a new bright, or refreshing, or calming look and feel to your bathroom. Another decorative and practical place for mosaic is entrance. Tile on the entrance floor is a well known practice. But why not use tile for coat hanging area. Choose your mosaic to give your entrance style.
Visit Stone Sourc Inc stone mosaic and glass mosaics pages, take a look at mosaics available, have fun decorating your space.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Rainforest Marble - Rainforest escape

Marble is a classic stone that has been used for centuries as building and decorating material. White marble is well known for the use in sculpture for the softness of the stone and relative resistance to shattering. And low index of refraction of marble lets the light penetrate several millimeters into the stone and gives it a “life” look of human body. Black and pink marble were also but occasionally used for sculptures. And all colors were widely used for interior and exterior decoration and as building materials.

Modern days technologies allow to have marble not only with polished surface, but to give it a different look and feel with honed, tumbled, and brushed finish.

Rainforest Brown Marble Tiles from Stone Source Inc.
Today’s feature is Rainforest Brown Marble with brushed finish. The surface of the stone is brushed with coarse wire brush that gives a stone soft weathered appearance and texture, and brings out it’s veins and contrast of the color creating a masterpiece of rainforest painting on the tile, inviting you to explore every line on the stone and greet it with your touch.

You can play with the tiles like Rainforest Brown Marble in many different ways in your interior. It makes a perfect floor, impressive entrance, or just a framed part of the wall for your eyes to rest and mind to wonder of.
Take advantage of low prices offered by Stone Source – Direct importer of the stones to improve or decorate you home or office.