What’s The Best Type Of Marble For Your Kitchen Floor?

Marble flooring is one of the more popular types of flooring tile that people use nowadays in their homes. Although the use of marble as flooring tile dates back to the time of the Greeks and Romans, it is now finding its way back to people’s homes, and more specifically, to their kitchens.
Marble comes in a variety of grades, depending on how durable and resistant it is to breakage, with Grade A marble being the most durable and resistant. If you are going to use marble for your kitchen floor, you must make sure that the grade of the marble that you are getting is the highest one, especially since you are going to use it in an area where there will be a lot of possible contact with the floor such as the appliances, kitchen utensils, foods, as well as liquids. You need to make sure that the type of marble that you are using in the kitchen is durable and resistant enough to handle spills and breakages in order to avoid damage to the marble flooring like cracks.

Types of Marble

Carrara Marble – Pure white marble commonly used by the Greeks and Romans to design statues and fountains. It is the most expensive of all marbles.


Faux Marbling – Refers to the painting of a surface intended to look like marble. It is commonly used in buildings where costs are trying to be avoided.
Paper Marbling – Another technique used to resemble true marble. Different color patterns are used together to give the material the look and feel of marble.



Limestone – Usually either beige or tan, this type of marble usually forms at the bottom of a lake.


Breccias – This type of marble is also called Breccia Oniciata or Breche Nouvelle and is caused by landslides or cave-ins. It is famous for its broken look.

Green Marble – These are actually not real marbles, but are instead serpentinites. Although visually similar they are not real marble.

Cultured Marble – This refers to when marble dust is combined with cement.

Paros (Greece)- Parian Marble : The marble og Paros is one of the world’s most finest variety of semi- translucent marble which used to be extensively mined particularly during the classical period in the island of Paros.

There are numerous different types of marble ranging from the pure white Carrara which was used in ancient marble sculptures to Tennessee marble which has a pink colour to it. Due to the cost of marble, many people choose to use cheaper materials such as granite, Travertine, Sandstone or Slate which can be less expensive than purchasing marble.
Below is a list of the most common types of marble:

The Rock Cycle

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Metamorphic rocks are probably the least understood by someone not familiar with geology. These rocks form from the deformation of previously existing igneous, sedimentary, and even an older metamorphic rock. The term metamorphic comes from a Greek term that means "change form."

Metamorphic Rock

Metamorphic rock is rock that has changed from one type of rock into another. The word metamorphic (from Greek) means "of changing form." Metamorphic rock is produced from either igneous rock (rock formed from the cooling and hardening of magma) or sedimentary rock (rock formed from compressed and solidified layers of organic or inorganic matter).

Most of Earth's crust is made up of metamorphic rock. Igneous and sedimentary rocks become metamorphic rock as a result of intense heat from magma and pressure from burial within Earth. Although the rock undergoes extreme heat and a great deal of pressure, it does not melt. If the rock melted, it would become igneous and not metamorphic rock. Instead, the heat and pressure combine to change the mineral makeup of the rock. Essentially, metamorphic rocks are made of the same minerals as the original rock, but the various minerals have been rearranged to make a new rock.

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