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As we’re called Surrey Marble and Granite, you may be wondering why we’re talking about wood today. It’s not our area of expertise, but new designs are using wood and stone together in striking ways that we simply have to talk about.

As expert stone workers, at Surrey Marble and Granite we’re often called on to undertake more unusual commissions. While our show room focuses on kitchen worktops, bathrooms and other domestic projects, we can outfit anything from a offices to super-yachts and our customers often ask us to get creative. Here are five quirky uses for marble and granite which can create a statement feature in your home or garden.

Granite, for stone kitchen worktops, stone floors and other uses, is a heavy material. However, thanks to technological advances in recent decades and affordable transport, it’s now possible to have a granite worktop from almost anywhere in the world. In fact, with a bit of effort you could select granites for your home from 6 different continents from granite suppliers! A natural stone formed from molten rock cooled under pressure, granite is incredibly hard. The exact conditions under which it forms affect the type, colour and patterning of the stone. […]