Travertine: A Stone In Multiple Formats

Available in multiple sizes and styles, travertine will both delight your interior and exterior. It makes a great difference in design.

• Indoors, multi-format travertine is available on all floors!
• Outside, the stone is in its original environment: Nature
• Choosing travertine and its shades of aged beige
• What does “aged” mean?

What is multi-format travertine? Kitchen, living room, bathroom, terrace, border of bedding, entrance path to your house, travertine can be integrated into every part, every corner of your house according to your wishes. All you have to do is choose! Maybe travertine slabs for a small garden path?

Indoors, multi-format travertine is available on all floors!

 For the followers of a classic but quality style, the square format travertine like the Classic Light 61x61x1.2 cm will brighten up your living room! Its dimension, similar to many tiles, harmonizes harmoniously with its natural and soft appearance. For those who wish to bring a breath of countryside into their home, the rectangular format, placed in an offset fashion, will be recommended! The Medium tiled travertine in 40x60x1.2 cm, gives off an air of tranquillity while making your interior brighter.

Those nostalgic for holidays in the sun will also be happy with multi-format travertine laid in Roman opus that will make them want to put on their swimsuits, even in winter. The Rustic travertine, laid according to this method, will guarantee you a Mediterranean and friendly atmosphere that will delight your guests! Laying in Roman opus is often feared because it is considered complex. To guide you, we propose a sketch and an article on this method.

Tip: To grout your travertine and fill the holes, use grout.

To complete and finalize the chosen style, travertine can also be laid with plinths. This will make your home harmonious, and give you that relaxed feeling even when your child is constantly hanging around you in the evening after a long working day.

For most people, a staircase often consists of wood. Why not change it? The universal slab travertine is perfect for stair cladding! No need to worry, a tile like Natura travertine is non-slip! Non-slip so is the mosaic! The latter exists in travertine, and it will delight your shower as well as all the rooms of your house.

Tip: If you do not want a shower or a wall covering made only of mosaic, a band, framed by travertine in wall covering will have its charm.

Outside, the stone is in its original environment: Nature

The multi-format travertine allows you to use the same kind of stone for your terrace as for your indoor floor and thus make your house more spacious. On the terrace, the formats remain similar to those indoors, except that the thickness is higher to be able to resist rain and frost.

Note: Remember to keep a slope of at least 3% for your terrace for better water flow. For this, it will be necessary to set up a bed of gravel 10 to 20 cm thick which will then be covered with another layer of gravel 5 cm thick.

But outdoors, using natural stone isn’t just limited to the patio. For a path from your portal to your front door, universal Rustic travertine tiles will blend into the environment and at the same time bring a touch of originality to your garden. The multi-format travertine can also be laid as a wall covering, pool surround and even as a single border or flower bed border!

Tip: For successful flower bed borders, remember to push well the stone into the ground and prevent weeds from making their way through.

Choosing travertine and its shades of aged beige

Multiple formats, okay, but why travertine? Because one of the finishes of travertine, making it aged beige, also called tumbled, is a stone that is highly appreciated, not only for its appearance but also for its quality and resistance.  But its porosity makes its quality. It makes it anti-slip, and therefore perfectly adapted to humid or risky environments. The kitchen, the bathroom and even the shower can be covered with travertine!

This stone exists since the dawn of time. Nature has thus forged millennia, travertines with different nuances. From the lightest, like Light travertine, to the darkest, like Noce, everyone finds the shade that suits them! A characteristic difference is also the number and the importance of the holes, the Rustic is the most perforated travertine, which is not a sign of poor quality; on the contrary!

What does “aged” mean?

Aged, or tumbled, actually refers to the finish of the stone, which can be contrasted with softened. Beige travertine with an aged finish will be placed in gear with gravel or quartz sand with water. This gear will then begin a rotational movement, which will cause the stones, along with the gravel, to clash. To better imagine this, we can compare it to a washing machine, the principle is the same, except that the stone is not washed. These repetitive shocks break the freshly cut edges of the tiles, making them uneven. The top of the stone also becomes more irregular than initially, increasing its anti-slip capacity. This process gives the stone this rustic and Mediterranean aspect.

For a warm interior or exterior, aged beige travertine will delight you in all its forms! What more do you expect?

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