Choose slate for a more natural-looking floor

Imagine that the time has come for a new floor for your home, restaurant, museum or bar. What do you desire in its appearance? Of course, you may be on the lookout for something fairly clinical, modern and manmade, or there may be a more natural effect that you are seeking. Flooring slate is a particularly sound choice of tile for those desiring the latter, simply because no tile looks quite the same as the next. 

That's obvious enough from a casual peruse of the current Natural Slate Company range. You may fall in love with calibrated Brazilian Grey slate, gauged Rustic Multicolour slate, gauged Mint Fossil Sandstone, gauged Lilac slate or gauged Barley slate. These offer all of the intriguing colour and pattern variations of the fine grained metamorphic rock that is slate, as is formed by the earth's crust's compression and heating of ocean or riverbed sediments.

To be fair, you can still get a great contemporary look to your floor with slate, such as with a calibrated lightly riven Brazilian slate tile, bringing all of the customary practical advantages of slate flooring - such as durability and ease of installation and maintenance - to even the most cutting edge looking kitchen, conservatory, hallway or bathroom. Newly-built shops and restaurants may also benefit from such tiles.

Picture your flooring slate installed in your intended destination right now, wooing visitors and continuing to interest family members who can't stop finding something new in those highly distinctive tiles. Will they be gazing upon the clean and modern Brazilian Black slate, for example, a lightly riven grey black slate with slight shade variations? Or perhaps they'll have fallen in love with Rustic Brown slate, this olive brown slate combining a riven surface with autumnal tones of varying degrees? There's also Sahara slate, with its alluring tones and swirls of orange and brown. The list truly goes on and on.

Don't forget that when you are deciding on flooring slate to fit the look of your home or public or commercial premises from the Natural Slate Company, you will also need to learn the differences between calibrated, gauged and ungauged slates, in addition to being well-versed in the five flooring patterns that we offer. These are all detailed on the relevant slate flooring page, allowing you to quickly determine the right choice of slate for you.

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