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Cost-effective, lightweight and more environmentally friendly than solid stone, faux stone effect panels are the perfect solution to making your interior design visions become stunningly beautiful reality. Natural Stone vs. Faux Stone Effect Panels While natural stone walls are doubtlessly incredibly beautiful and will add both style and timeless elegance to any residential or commercial setting, use of solid stone panels does present architects and interior designers with several problems: Weight –…

Created using the latest in solid surface technology/techniques, lightweight stone walls open an entirely new world of creating stunningly beautiful, totally unique and memorable spatial experiences. Lightweight Stone Panels Consisting of thin natural stone panels bonded to varying backing materials, lightweight stone panels: Preserve the gorgeous appearance of natural stone while offering the durability, flexural strength and impact resistance of man-made materials Can be used in situations where dead-load restrictions prohibit use…

Stunningly beautiful and naturally translucent, man-made, fake stone walls are an ever-more popular alternative to natural stone walls. Here is why. Top Reasons to opt for Fake Stone Walls One of the main reasons to choose faux stone wall panels over solid stone panels is that they are significantly lighter in weight. 6-mm thick solid stone panels would, for example, weigh an average of approximately 16 kg/m2. Fake stone panels of the…

Durable and aesthetically appealing, natural stone wall panels have been used to bring timeless beauty to buildings around the world for millennia. There are, however, drawbacks to their use… Natural Stone Drawbacks The first disadvantage of natural stone is weight, which often prohibits its use due to limitations on buildings’ dead load and may necessitate expensive remedial work to enable attachment of heavy materials to vertical surfaces. Inherently brittle, comparatively inflexible and…

Use of faux, or fake stone panels is becoming increasingly popular in today’s interior design projects. Here is why fake stone walls are so popular in the 21st Century. Natural Stone To explain the popularity of faux stone in architectural/interior design projects, it is perhaps best to first look at the potential disadvantages of using natural stone. Whether you intend to enhance your interiors with marble, alabaster, granite or indeed any other…

Soft and malleable, the finely-grained and characteristically veined mineral stone known as alabaster has captured the imagination of and been used by cultures all over the world for centuries. Easily carve and shaped into impressive designs, this stunningly beautiful stone features a pure whiteness and natural, light-enhancing translucency that make it the perfect material for works of art and architectural projects. Here is a brief history of the use of this magnificent…

Faux marble sheets for walls are suitable for a wide variety of exciting potential applications. Here are some of them. Marble Walls in History and Today Architects and builders have used marble on walls to stunning effect for centuries. The interior Georgia marble walls and columns of Temple Square, Utah’s historic State Capitol Building are among the world’s finest examples of such use. Unfortunately, weight restrictions and budget limitations make use of…

Faux Alabaster Panels – Turning Your Vision of Stunning Structural Interior Design into Reality. Whether you are inspired by classic, ancient or art deco influences; whether you draw your inspiration from industrial or international, modern or futuristic examples, faux alabaster panels allow you to create distinctive, totally unique and truly memorable spatial experiences. Faux Alabaster Panels Using the very latest in solid surface technologies & techniques, we assist you in making the…

Marble and other luxury surfaces have been used to stunningly beautify stately homes for centuries. One of the most extravagant and incredibly innovative examples of such homes is Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. Marble and Other Luxury Surfaces Created for John Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, by architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, Mount Stuart was a house filled with marble and other luxury surfaces – as well as…