In general, they take great pleasure in objects of aesthetic beauty. If they have the means, they’re likely to have to have many beautiful possessions, and an artfully furnished home. I would say that you are allowed to have marble if you’re an:ĮSFPs have a very well-developed appreciation for aesthetic beauty, and an excellent sense of space and function. The following are my very unscientific observations. I personally would advocate taking a Myers-Briggs personality test before being able to purchase marble. Here’s a link to how I clean my marble, for those of you who are bound to ask. So, how do you know if marble is for you? In general, if you love beauty over function, are laid back in personality, and have a strong aesthetic sensibility, you will likely LOVE having marble, like I do. (an etched in stain, probably from some kind of acid) Here are some pics of my imperfect marble. You can try to be as johnny-on-the-spot with wiping up water stains (I tried it for less than 24 hours) but IT WILL STAIN. I don’t think I would personally call it a downside but some of you would HATE having marble, for this reason. And last year, when we made homemade salsa, there’s a huge patterned stain (looks just like a water stain) from where the tomatoes were all sitting. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but it’s almost true. Marble is a Beautiful Natural Stone that Stains Like CrazyĪlmost everything that has ever touched my marble has stained it. It’s soft and porous and it WILL most certainly never be perfect. Marble is marble and it will look flawless for exactly 3 seconds after it’s installed. Mine is polished and already has the same ‘patina’ as my friends who have honed marble. I honestly don’t think it matters whether it’s honed or polished. I wouldn’t change a thing, except maybe I’d have it covering every surface in my house. I love rolling out pastry dough right on it. I love how it’s always cold to the touch. I can mark the memories in my kitchen by the staining pattern in my marble. This character trait of marble makes me love it even more. It goes through good times and hard times. And even more awesome with two cutie little girls playing on top of it. It’s the perfect surface, in my humble estimation. It is stately and feminine, all at the same time. I would say that hardly any other surface is as stunning as a big slab of marble. So, here are my very personal thoughts on living with marble. We used EVERY single inch of that marble.Įvery single day that I walk into my kitchen, I LOVE seeing this marble. I also have marble in my master bath and on the dressing vanity in the girl’s room. I have all marble in the kitchen, excluding one piece that has a walnut top. I knew I wanted mostly marble in the kitchen and marble for the island. ![]() Big counter top companies will usually have a huge yard of remnants so make sure and ask to see them. I got amazing deals on remnant granite and it balanced out the cost of the marble. To offset the cost of the marble, I bought all remnants for my other countertops. I had all the edges beveled and all the finishes were polished. I loved the gold-ish veining and decided that I would use two slabs as far as they would go in my house. I fell in love with two big slabs of Calcutta Gold. I attribute that to all the Cottage Living magazines I had scoured for years and years AND all my friends with marble had Carrera. I was sure, going into it, that I wanted Carrera. I bought all my countertops from Smoky Mountain Tops, in Knoxville. It took several trips before I settled on the one I wanted. I went to several local counter top shops (as in Knoxville-not Bean Station) and looked at all the marble that was currently in stock. I decided that I LOVED the look of marble so much that I wasn’t gonna listen to the naysayers. Honed? Polished? Straight edge? Beveled edge? Calcutta Gold? Carrera? Water spots? Wine spots? I gave up. I found a host of entirely conflicting views. So, I took to the internets and did some research. ![]() ![]() ![]() He repeatedly asked me if I was sure I wanted marble. I didn’t think the counter top guy was gonna sell it to me. Real things always are.Īnd let me say that EVERYBODY warned me against marble. So many of you have asked me if I love the marble, after living with it for awhile.
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