Natural Stone Tiles

Natural stone or porcelain for a Sunshine Coast home? How the two compare on looks, salt air, heat underfoot, maintenance and cost — and where we would use each.

Natural stone has a depth that manufactured surfaces struggle to match. Every piece carries the marks of how it formed — the shell fragments in a travertine paver, the drift of colour through a marble slab, the honeyed veining in a limestone wall. No two tiles are identical, and that variation is exactly why natural…