MARBLE BASEBOARDS TURNED BATHROOM FLOOR
I had to remove some marble baseboards that were used in the living room of my house because I wanted to wainscot the wall and the marble baseboard wouldn’t match the wall molding.
Specially cut marble can actually be more expensive than the raw uncut slab (fabrication costs), so I really couldn’t throw the marble out, since I felt we could use it elsewhere. We eventually decided on using it as flooring for our powder room, manually cutting the bevelled portion of the stone out.
Estimated Material Cost for XXX measurement floor: XXX materials like polymer and marble adhesive we needed to lay the tile, excluding waterproofing and skim coating costs.
Estimated Time Spent XXX measurement floor: 1.5 days to cut marble and install
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We worked with the varying lengths of the baseboard because when it was dismantled, it broke in several places. Instead of cutting them to be the same length, I decided on a pattern that would allow them to be used in their uneven form. Most workers will suggest you lay them out like wood laminate planks are laid out in a somewhat uneven stretcher bond, but I decided on a maze-like pattern.
We wanted to wainscot the walls of this room, so we had to remove the bevelled marble baseboards. We needed to replace them with material we could paint to match the moulding above that would form the panelling for the wainscot.
These are some of the marble baseboards we removed. When we removed the marble baseboards, they broke in several uneven pieces. We set these aside for as of yet undetermined future use, at that time.
This is the bathroom we needed to refurbish. My preferred material is stone, which can be costly. After receiving several quotations from suppliers, we made the decision to use the dismantled marble baseboards as flooring. For the walls, we used Venetian plaster, a material I enjoy working with for its subtle texture.
This was when the floor was completed, we opted to use polymer instead of grout to cover the spaces in between the marble tile. The maze patterns we made here was inspired by Paul Bangay’s garden designs.
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