Choose where the veins fall.
Marble and natural stone for kitchens, bathrooms and floors, from our slab yard in Beverley. We template your room, lay the templates on the slab with you, then cut, polish and install.
White marble
White marble comes as a bundle of 6 matching slabs, cut one after another from the same block.
Lay your kitchen on this slabThe quietest stone in the yard, white with soft grey feathering.
3200 × 1800 mm · 20 or 30 mm · honed or polished
Pick a stone under the rack, drag the rack sideways, or use the arrow keys.
White marble
Lay your kitchen on the slab.
Every slab is different. The templates decide which part of it becomes your benchtop.
Slab 1 of 6
Slab 2 of 6
The room
Thickness
Drag a piece to move it. R turns the one you’re holding. Tab goes to the next piece.
Where your veins went
The veins run on up the wall.
The layout here is drawn for this page. At the yard you do it with the real slab and our templates.
Five stones in the yard.
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White marble
Soft grey feathering on white.
Kitchens that like a quiet top, vanities, floors.
Think twice if you want a top that never changes.
Lay it out on white marble -
Bold-veined marble
Heavy grey veins that cross and split.
An island with nothing on it, a feature wall.
In a small, busy kitchen it can look restless.
Lay it out on bold-veined marble -
Green serpentine
Deep green, pale threads, the odd black fleck.
Vanities, walls, a fireplace surround.
It’s soft for a stone: not the chopping side of a kitchen.
Lay it out on green serpentine -
Cross-cut travertine
Cream and honey clouds, pores filled before it leaves the yard.
Floors, bathrooms, under a verandah.
Acid marks it the way it marks marble.
Lay it out on cross-cut travertine -
Grey quartzite
Grey-white bands with a glint.
Busy kitchens, outdoor kitchens in shade.
It’s hard to shape, so ornate edges aren’t its thing.
Lay it out on grey quartzite
We describe stones by what they are, not by trade names. Slab sizes vary by bundle; the ones here are typical.
An afternoon at the yard.
We come to your house first and make templates of thin board, cut to your cabinets and walls. Then you come to the yard in Beverley, we lay the templates on the slabs together, and you move them until the veins fall where you want. We mark the slab, cut it on the saw, shape and polish the edges, and bring it back to fit, seal and clean up.
Bring a cabinet door, a tap handle or a tile you like. The shed roof lets in north light, so you see the stone the way your kitchen window will.
Marble and lemon juice.
Tap the tile to put a drop of lemon on the polished marble.
Drawn for this page. A real etch takes a few minutes.
Marble is soft, and acid marks it.
Lemon, vinegar, tomato and some bathroom sprays leave a dull patch the shape of the spill. That’s an etch, not a stain. Sealing slows stains. It doesn’t stop an etch. On a polished top an etch shows. On a honed top it mostly sinks into the finish.
Honed or polished?
Polished shows the colour deepest, and every mark. Honed is matte, and it wears in rather than out. For a kitchen that gets cooked in, we usually say honed. For a vanity, either.
Walls that open like a book.
Your pair, from the bundle you chose: white marble, slabs 1 and 2, the second turned over like a page.
Cut two slabs one after the other and they carry nearly the same pattern.
They come from the same block. Turn the second over like the page of a book and the veins meet at the joint in a mirror. On a vanity, a mitred edge carries the vein round the corner. Honed underfoot in the shower; honed or polished on the wall.
Floors, laid in bond.
Large-format stone, 1200 by 600, laid like this page: each row offset by half a tile. We number the tiles as they come off the slab, so the veins run on from one to the next. Honed underfoot, sealed before the grout. The base has to be flat before the first tile goes down, so we check it when we template.
Living with marble.
Where it suits
A bathroom wall. A vanity. A floor you walk on in socks. A baking bench, cool under pastry. An island people lean on and talk over.
Where it doesn’t
A barbecue bench in full western sun. A kitchen where nobody wants to wipe up lemon. Anyone who wants a top that never changes. For those, come and look at the quartzite.
Day to day
Wipe spills when you see them. Use a pH-neutral cleaner. A board under the knife, a trivet under the pot. Reseal honed marble when water stops beading on it.
Come and walk the racks.
The yard is in Beverley. Every slab stands where you can walk its whole face. Tell us about the room and we’ll have the right bundles out when you come.