What is Sandstone

A stunning Natural Stone, known for not only its durability but popular also for its distinctiveness, is how we define a Sandstone as. This naturally formed sedimentary rock has a unique characteristic in providing a prettifying touch to your resting abode. Exhibiting multiple variations with its hues that range from white to black and from pink to grey, they can be an apt choice for both interiors and cxteriors.

Sandstone creates an amazing effect wherever it is used. While on one hand, it provides warmth and peace to our residential projects, on the other hand, it provides grace and beauty to the commercial ones. The quality of variation is what makes the composition of this stone differ from others. Used since prehistoric times, the stone is durable, unique, replaceable, and eco-friendly in nature. If provided with proper care and maintenance, the stone lasts for ages and keeps giving a touch of royalty to your projects.

How Do You Identify a Sandstone

Made up of sand grains that are closely cemented together, the stone can be identified by its rough granular texture which can be easily located if seen and felt closely. These granules will give different colors from beige to black giving a superficial appearance of hard rock at times. But this is the beauty of this stone. So many different colored grains omitting different hues altogether gives this stone its unique quality of being different from its other stone piece.

Where Can We Install These Sandstones

The Trending Applications

It says Life is Bliss if spent close to Nature. Taking the idea forward, let us understand exactly the places where we can make apt use of this material. With the changing trends, stone is not only limited to garden areas or walls, it has taken different shapes and forms when it comes to adorning the interiors and exteriors of your homes and offices. Today everyone has a niche for beauty. Though the natural stone is in use for ages, now with the latest trends people have actually realized its worth and have carved an eye for embellishing them in the most intrinsic way that they can. This has now become the first choice of architects, designers, and builders across the globe.

Here are some of the ideas to decor your ambiance in the most unique and extravagant ways:

Beautifying your Garden Designs

Being a versatile material, the stone can be effectively used in a contemporary and modern way in your gardens. From backdrops to stone statues to pedestals, sandstones are everywhere.

• Garden Walls:

  Be it the regular patterns or some signature statements, sandstones work very well as wall claddings. Considering the nature of the stone as the long-lasting one, it makes an apt choice for a boundary fence as well. Throw plants or flower beds complete that wow appeal.

• Garden Statues:

  We have often seen figurines of animals, birds, angels, or some contemporary figure in many modernized gardens. This stone makes everything possible. 

• Garden Fountains:

  How can we forget the gleam and glare that the garden fountains bring to the entire surroundings. It imparts an altogether different look to an ordinary-looking garden.

• Garden Tables & Benches:

  Strengthening the idea further that Nature is the purest portal to inner peace, there are times when we just want to relax in the lap of nature. So, constructing the bench tops with Sandstone slabs is a much more tantalizing idea though.

Sandstone Walls

Since Times New Roman, sandstones have been widely used for constructing magnificent buildings, castles, forts, temples, etc. This is a material whose durability and strength have been tested and trusted for ages. One such example of a massive construction done with this stone material is Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. To date, the building stands tall and firm. The rough and tough nature of the stone has made it suitable to use certain slabs, Ledgestone Panels, and corners to construct the walls and Interior wall panels. Besides giving a decorative look to the surroundings it gives an antique look to our project. Be it in the form of boundary fences or traditionally-modernized letterboxes.

Sandstone Flooring

We often talk about flooring as the first feature to attract in any construction project. What better than durable sandstone flooring? Thinking about a timeless, classic look for your project, choose from SUI Sandstone pavers, jumbo patterns, patios, and driveway materials. Considering its qualities of being non-slippery, fireproof, and reliable stone, this is among the most durable flooring material one can go for.

Sandstone Countertops

Big slabs used in kitchens, give the most unique look. Sandstone is considered a stone that has been mined and cut from a solid stone, finished in several ways, and if polished properly brings a sheen to your kitchen tops. Although porous in nature, the stone is believed to absorb oil, juices, and other liquid very frequently but if installed and sealed properly, it proves to be equally durable for kitchen countertops as well.

Sandstone Pathways

Due to its calcium and mineral composition, this stone is considered a hard-wearing wrong, a characteristic which is very much required for a surface that is prone to every kind of weather conditions and a lot of heavy traffic. So, in order to give elegance to your pathways make use of beautiful Stone Universe pavers and tiles to complete the project.

There are innumerable advantages to choosing natural stones in your building projects. Choose from a range of Stone Universe color pallets and patterns that suits your house the most.