Marble Home Decor

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Post Date: 09 Apr 2009    Viewed: 841

Marble is an elegant natural material which has graced the palaces and hallways of great kings for a thousand generations. It is classical, historical, and always stylish and, while it classically has been used primarily in art and architecture, it is also available in your home in a much more subtle and low maintenance way, in the form of stylish decorative products.

There is an almost endless variety of marble d??cor products which can be purchased. Some of the most common accessories made from this material include chess sets, wall clocks, beverage coasters, serving trays, and vases, although almost anything which is solid, without many moving parts, can actually be made from marble. If there is a particular marble product you are looking for, you can occasionally have a stone fabrication yard build something custom for you.

One of the most commonly asked questions about marble home d??cor products is how to clean and maintain them. One of the reasons that marble is a high end material, reserved largely for expensive applications, is that it is notoriously difficult top properly maintain and care for. This is due to the chemical makeup of the stone, which makes it a base in an acid base chemical relationship.

The fact that marble is a base is fascinating in a theoretical way, but it actually very important, because it means that you can not use any acid based cleanser on this material. If any chemical acid falls directly on your marble product, it will cause a chemical reaction, which will discolor the stone. Since almost every cleaning agent has some sort of acid in it, this limits what you can use.

Luckily, most marble products come treated with a sealing agent, which serves to create a thin, invisible layer over the surface of the stone. This has the effect of protecting the marble against acidic mishaps. However this is not a perfect shield and the sealant will tend to dry up and fade away over time.

Luckily most marble products don't require much more than a simple wipe with a damp washcloth to keep them clean. The polished surface found in many of these items will make that even easier, allowing you to simply slide the dirt or dust off of the item.

One of the great things about marble home d??cor products is that there are a wide variety of marble colors available. The standard color is a pure white, or off white, luminescent color, which is featured in classical architecture such as the Parthenon. However there are also a wide variety of shades, patterns, and even multi-colors available, depending on where the marble was quarried and what chemical elements were present during its formation.

When you purchase a marble piece that is made from one of the patterned or multi-colored materials, you will be getting a one of a kind piece. That is because the way that colors form in each piece of marble is unique, and unlike the formation found in any other.

Marble is an elegant and sophisticated material that will bring some of the classic beauty of the ages into your home. While architectural applications, and artistic pieces, are where you will generally find historical mention of marble, it is actually quite cost effective to simply use unique pieces of marble home d??cor to bring its full potential into your home environment.