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Your pool house or cabana area can become the heart of the home during warm weather months with the right amount of attention to style and comfort.  It is the hub of parties, BBQ's, and late night gatherings with friends.  It's important that your poolside design maintains your personal style, while also meshing with the outdoor ambiance that makes it such a unique and desirable living area. 

The right tile flooring is key to creating a high-end aesthetic, while preserving a natural outdoor aesthetic.

Slate Tile Flooring is a Natural Way to Create High-end Appeal

Slate is a natural occurring stone formed from layers of volcanic lava and ash.  After being compressed over long periods of time, these layers can be cut into slate tiles.  Slate usually comes in various shades of grey, although it can also include a variety of colors such as earthy greens, rusty reds, purples, and blues.

When you visit our show room, you will be able to choose from an array of shale textures and colors to ensure that your slate tile selections are consistent with your decorating motifs. You can also browse our selections online.

Slate Tile Flooring Is Not Slippery When Wet

One major benefit to selecting natural slate tiles for your pool house and/or cabana area is that they are nearly 100% slip proof when they become wet.  Because slate is a natural stone that forms over a long period of time, it is porous with a slightly rough texture.  This allows water to be absorbed into, or run off the slate.  It is smooth enough to form a comfortable walking surface but maintains a slip-proof surface when wet, which is optimal for your pool side surroundings.

Slate Tile Flooring is a Perfect Poolside Choice

Because of the naturally occurring colors and patterns, slate is even more attractive when it becomes wet.  The earth tones will become darker and more vivid when they are splashed with water, but maintain their color after they dry.  While other flooring choices will fade over time with constant exposure to sunlight and water, your slate tiles will look as as good as the day they were installed for many years to come.

Slate is easily incorporated into your landscaping designs to create a fluid aesthetic from your pool, to your cabana, to attractive garden pathways. Regardless of what colors you choose, your slate tiles will always blend in with the natural world around them.

Web designer Josh Byers says, "The proper and subtle use of texture takes a design from being flat and dead to noticeable and alive." While Byers was referring to a different kind of design when he said this, this concept applies just as well to interior design. Texture is one of the 5 basic elements of interior design. It is the tactile and visual characteristic of a surface, so it can be hard, soft, smooth, rough, shiny, matte, etc. All surfaces have texture, but it is the proper combination of various textures that makes a design balanced, sophisticated and interesting. 

Marble and Granite, Inc introduces NeoLith by TheSize

NeoLith by TheSize is one of those products that instantly amazes you. It is incredibly durable and looks fabulous, keeping its luster regardless of use. It is transportable and can be recycled without harmful emissions. It can be cut to size and glued a the surface and used for just about anything. It resists UV rays of the great outdoors and is also excellent for any room, new or remodeled. It has been in production since 2009 and is catching on as the surface to use.

The use of NeoLith by TheSize offers great advantages. This product has no pores. Therefore, it cannot absorb stains or odors. When something has spilled on the surface and abrasive cleaners are employed, the stains are removed with no adverse effect to the NeoLith. There is no ability for and bacteria, mold or fungus to anchor on its surface. Because it is very thin, it is lightweight and easy to transport, even though it is amazingly durable. For instance, it will not burn easily and it is very resistant to scratches. It is available in a plethora of colors, thereby making it easy to fit your color scheme.

The list is too great to name all of its uses. NeoLith by TheSize is amazingly thin and yet incredibly durable. In fact, the guarantee on this material is well over a decade. However, to give an idea, it can be used for countertops, walls inside and out and floors. This can be ordered in slabs or tile form of various sizes. Its depth is available from 3mm to 8mm, making a beautiful final product. When ordering from a sample, you will be pleased, for the process of manufacturing gives for a uniform result.

The reason it is so durable and lasts for such a long time while still looking great and feeling smooth, NeoLith by TheSize is made from pure sand or clay into a ceramic. The raw clay is molded and glazed. This unique glaze is what makes it so very resistant to scratches and stains. This is then placed into a kiln and baked. When fully fused, it is removed from the kiln with a slow decrease in temperatures.

Once you see it for yourself, you will wish to use it in your home and for your places of business. NeoLith by TheSize is an excellent product in any setting. You can see the line of Neolith colors that Marble and Granite stocks by clicking here.