Tips for Using Natural Stone in Your Kitchen

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1. Kitchen Decoration Trends

2. Kitchen Decoration | Natural stone cladded furniture

3. Kitchen Decoration | Natural stone claddings

4. Kitchen Decoration | Stone kitchen islands

Kitchen is an essential area of a house; as a gathering space, it should be balanced in terms of design and functionality. In the past, kitchen was only regarded as an area for preparing food. In time, this feature evolved into something that feels more than comfortable, so here you can also enjoy your morning coffee or invite a couple of friends for dinner. Kitchen decoration project is essential, with aesthetics matching the functional part.

1. Kitchen Decoration Trends

Lately, the concept "less is more" is highlighted for kitchens – a spacious, minimal space with a clean, yet elegant look. The modern facilities of a kitchen are promoted, because are increasingly sophisticated and less time consuming. The kitchen elements assume the elegance, realism and colors rage of furniture items for the living room, while finishes are meant to amplify the sensation of space. Current trends highlight the serene, neutral shades, yet constrasting different elements. Of course, colors and finishes are inspired by nature. Kitchen decoration projects as a social space, more comfortable and inviting, require more daring details and revolutionary materials – such as SKIN flexible slate, the flexible natural stone – for replacing wooden flooring and traditional ceramic tiles.

2. Kitchen Decoration | Natural stone cladded furniture

Cladding your kitchen furniture with natural materials is currently trending. Natural stone finishes have a particular elegance. Although it seems hard to believe, natural stone manages to be "tamed" up to the maximum flexibility allowed by such a massive and raw material. PIATRAONLINE portfolio includes a revolutionary material – SKIN flexible slate – which represents the flexible shape of the natural stone. With such a flexible natural stone, you are able to clad the most atypical surfaces, which is impossible for a standard tile.

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Rediscover natural stone, highlighted by 18 different designs and textures and dare to create spectacular projects for your kitchen. Being an ultra lightweight and large size product, SKIN flexible slate will successfully clad your modern kitchen furniture. We offer you assistance for the custom made furniture, but you need to choose your favorite texture, for an ultra modern and durable element in your kitchen decoration project.

SKIN flexible slate is a durable material, even for wet spaces and you will no longer have to worry for furniture fingerprints. Furthermore, as soon as the surface is sealed with professional solutions for natural stone from LTP, you will no longer have to worry about water droplets or steam. LTP Mattstone H2O, a water-based sealer, is ideal for SKIN flexible slate.

Furniture cladding with SKIN flexible slate is one of the latest trends in kitchen decoration, even for apartments. It is a perfect fit for contemporary style, it is inspired by nature and is also an element that separates your home from the rest – every piece of natural stone is unique. Countertops can also be cladded with flexible slate – you don't have to worry about scratching or staining it.

If you still want something even more spectacular compared to flexible natural stone, a particular texture or an even more elegant material, you can decide to clad your furniture with marble. So, we experimented in our showroom (Aleea Teisani 137A, Bucharest) and re-created a full-scale apartment. For kitchen, we selected a very popular material – Nero Marquina marble – used it for furniture cladding. With peach travertine backsplash, we have attained a spectacular contrast, also available for your home – two materials with strong personalities, yet together durable. This project of furniture cladding with Nero Marquina Marble was a joint-venture with Romanian Furniture Club Association (ACRM). PIATRAONLINE portfolio includes plenty of natural stone for your kitchen decoration project.

3. Kitchen Decoration | Natural stone claddings

Not just furniture or your kitchen countertop can be refreshed, but also your kitchen walls. Romanian house are focused mainly on two trends: either whitewashed walls, either ceramic tiles installed up to the ceiling or, if we’re lucky, up to half. And in both situations, there is nothing for conveying comfort, or the concept of home, to separate it from other kitchens. Definitely, modern trends are about bringing natural materials – wood, stone – closer. Although stone might suggest something cold, bulky, it is actually a spectacular material, filled with comfort and so easy to integrate into a space. It is exactly this paradox that incorporates the beauty of natural stone. Also with respect to modern trends, the three-dimensional mosaics started to be points of attraction in modern kitchen decoration projects. Mosaics are those tiny pieces of natural stone that offer you the freedom to create new designs and recreate the space you call kitchen. PIATRAONLINE product range includes a wide range of mosaics, from many types of stone. Starting with Kavala marble classic mosaics, tumbled Classic travertine, up to 3D mosaics. These are easy to install and can be combined with other stones or natural materials. Besides the modern touch of natural stone mosaics, these are ideal materials for a kitchen type of space. Apart from the amazing mosaics for cladding, you have a wide range of tiles, different sizes and finishes, for your kitchen decoration project.

4. Kitchen Decoration | Stone kitchen islands

In modern kitchens, the stand alone dining table is replaced by a kitchen island, usually located right in the middle, which allows you to integrate the oven or storage facilities and then turns into the visual anchor of your kitchen. Such a decoration project is a perfect fit for an open-space or a large-size kitchen. As we said, modern designs are going to optimize space and create a clean aesthetics, thus avoiding cluttering. Besides, our lifestyle has radically changed, thus leading to such changes in our personal space. A kitchen island serves two purposes: aesthetic and functional.

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Preparing meals will be much easier, giving you a comfortable space. You will have everything at hand – you can embed the sink or the stove top or you can also integrate shelves or storage facilities – and you can arrange it so that there is a dining place, by adding some chairs and lighting objects, targeting the island. Based on the design of your kitchen, you can use this island for a color touch and texture, as an instant eye catcher. A matching countertop for this project can be made from natural stone – marble – or you can clad it with SKIN Flexible Slate, if produced from another material.

Based on your needs, island can replace the bar, it can only be a work space for passionate people, your coffee or dining table. A modern multifunctional element that complies with every activity ares of a kitchen.

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A kitchen decoration project will consume you a lot of time, energy and resources. But, as with any other project, natural resources will ultimately provide the desired result. For an amazing effect, the maximum number of colors to be combined in the kitchen is 2 – 3. Furniture cladding with natural stone is pretty much common outside Romania, but in here, this is still considered out of the ordinare, hence the stone-cladded kitchens are quite rare, mostly imported from countries such as Italia or Spain. Because we put our soul into every project and natural stone is so versatile, you will find kitchens cladded with natural stone in our portfolio. Do not limit yourself to claddings and floorings with natural stone; this material gives you the freedom to turn your dream space into reality.

#Generatinginspiration for thousands of projects, natural stone has a story that needs to be taken further. We invite you to visit our showroom, for the complete range of natural stones where you will definitely discover the perfect materials for your modern kitchen!