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calcatta borghini and gold marble

last year

If I'm doing calcatta gold floors, will that look okay with borghini counters and bathtub? Our shower is green zellige

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cpartist

last year

Way too much. All three are fighting with one another.

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chispa
last year
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Hard to say if one marble will go with another, because there can be quite large variations in the way that a particular marble can look, depending on what quarry it comes from and when it was quarried. These days it is very hard to find calacatta gold marble with the type of beautiful gold /beige/brown veins that you used to see 20+ years ago. The new stuff just isn't as pretty.

As far as you choices so far, I think they will look too busy and not really complement each other.

How did you come up with this design?

Do you have some inspiration photos that led you to these choices?
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chicagoans
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As others have said, I'd pick one thing to be the star (in other words, one thing with a pattern that you want to draw the eye.) For me it would be counters. Other finishes would be the background actors and much quieter.
Miranda33
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People who choose the extravagant real Calacatta Gold marble for their bathrooms go all the way with it and use it for floors, walls and counters. (Kim Kardashian famously offered $1M for her mother's 10 slabs of Calacatta Gold, and while that was done for the TV drama, it still conveys the idea of the extravagance of this material). Do not mix it with two other materials, most especially one being the Borghini Pental Quartz.
rkashwood
Original Author
last year
Calcatta borghini comes from the same quarry as gold. It is marble and not quartz
cpartist
last year
Yes but they're both different and they're fighting one another. And then you add the shower tile which is more "rustic" looking and doesn't work at all with the marbles.
M Miller
last year
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Sometimes people don’t know when to stop adding stuff that they like. We see that all the time on this forum - people like so many different finishes, stones, colors, that they choose them all for one space. But decor looks better when there are fewer strong elements, or actually one strong element. You have three. Choose one. If you decide it’s the green zellige tile, then the other design elements need to coordinate with it, not just be put together because you like each one individually. If it’s one of the marbles, then it’s just one of the marbles. Borghini marble has very strong veining (pics below of Borghini marble), so keep that in mind when planning the design if that’s the one you want.

There are designers you can hire by the hour (i.e. not for an entire project if you don’t need that) who can help you with coordinating the bathroom walls, floor, and shower.
elizabeth_eclectic
last year
I think it could be pretty great! Sometimes I think people are too conservative on here with their interiors. I love a dramatic bathroom. You should check out some Kelly Wearstler bathrooms and Cara Woodhouse they do a lot of designs with bold marbles. These bathrooms in the pics below all have high contrasting elements and I think they look amazing! Be unique! Instead of boxing your bathtub in with slabs could you get a free standing white one? That would break things up a little.

Have you taken your floor tile and the green Zellige to the marble yard to hold up next to your slabs? That’s really the best way, and it’s good to visit during different times of day to see how the sun effects the way the marble looks.
cpartist
last year
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There is a huge difference between bold and overdone to the point where your eye has nowhere to rest. Some of the above prove the point of too much while some show that bold can defintely work when you also use more quiet elements.

I personally went "bold" in many of my rooms, but one has to know how different elements will work together.
Miranda33
last year
@elizabeth_eclectic - some of those pics are cool and imaginative. But some are ”oh dear no”, and I would not want to live with them. A bathroom should be relaxing.
elizabeth_eclectic
last year
@Miranda33 to each their own! The OP sounds like she has flair and imagination, which i admire! Of course it might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but the world would be boring if every design mag was filled with same same same, more ”safe” choices. If you love something I say go for it!
cpartist
last year
Having flair and imagination is a good thing. Knowing how to put it all together is better and using 3 disparate items together is not knowing how to put it all together.
chispa
last year
Most of those photos shown above used only one marble type mixed with other materials.

Designers also don't have to live with the "flair and imagination" they might inflict on their clients! Always nice to be able to try something crazy with someone else's money!

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