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Choosing
Choosing
How to Choose a Marble Table: Nine Questions to Ask
Nine questions to settle before buying a marble table — slab thickness, size against the room, edge profile, weight, finish, base and stone choice, answered directly.
Marble Edge Profiles for Furniture: A Cost and Safety Comparison
The six marble edge profiles for furniture compared — eased, bevel, bullnose, ogee, mitred and waterfall — on appearance, relative cost, chipping risk, child safety and slab thickness compatibility.
Furniture-Grade vs Countertop-Grade Stone: What Actually Differs
Why stone sold for kitchen worktops is not automatically right for furniture — thickness, substrate, span limits, base engineering and where fracture actually starts.
Stone Furniture for Small Spaces: Sizing That Works
How to choose stone tables for a small or awkward room — coffee table sizing in a narrow lounge, a slim console, a compact side table, and which stones suit limited space.
Materials
Materials
Marble vs Granite vs Quartzite vs Travertine for Furniture
How marble, granite, quartzite and travertine differ for furniture — hardness, acid resistance, porosity, weight and where each one earns its place in a room.
Onyx Stone Explained: Architectural Onyx, Not the Gemstone
What architectural onyx actually is — banded calcite, its Mohs hardness, absorption and density, where it comes from, and why it needs backlighting to be worth the price.
Filled vs Unfilled Travertine: What Changes in Furniture
The difference between filled and unfilled travertine — the holes, the sealing, the hygiene question in a bathroom, and which one to specify for a table or a basin.
Delivery
Delivery
Bathroom
Bathroom
Care
Care
How to Clean a Marble Table: The Three Kinds of Damage
How to clean marble without etching it — the difference between stains, etching and limescale, what causes each, which can be removed, and what to use instead.
Bathroom Stone Care: Limescale, Etching and Staining
Why bathroom marble etches faster than kitchen marble, which products cause it, how to remove limescale from a stone basin without etching it, and what to do about hard water.
Trade
Trade
How to Buy Stone Furniture from a Chinese Workshop
How to buy stone furniture from China — what evidence shows a real workshop, realistic MOQ, FOB against CFR and DDP, HS codes, crating, inspection and the clauses that decide who pays when a piece arrives damaged.
FOB vs CFR vs DDP for Stone Furniture
What FOB, CFR and DDP each include, what they leave to you, and why a heavy stone table should be compared on the same term rather than on the headline price.
The Nine-Item Brief for Specifying a Stone Furniture Project
The nine things to specify before a stone furniture project can be drawn and quoted — use, dimensions, stone, thickness, edge, base, cut-outs, fittings and delivery.
Buying the Same Stone Twice: Slab Reserves and Batch Matching
How to get two pieces of the same stone to match — slab reserves, block references, batch matching, veining direction and why colour matches but patterns never do.
Ordering
Ordering
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