Inspiring Materials: Honey Onyx
This Warm, Decorative Stone Adds Drama to Backsplashes, Counters, Fireplaces and More
Honey onyx is a translucent stone which can add beauty and drama to your interior spaces. In warm tones of orange, gold and yellow, it is a banded calcite with wonderful color depth and distinctive patterning. Backlighting reveals its unique details and luminosity. Let's take a look:
Backlit honey onyx makes a dramatic fireplace surround and hearth.
The front of a bar features striking bands of pattern.
Tip: To care for onyx, seal it with a penetrating sealer, wipe up spills right away and clean it with products designed specifically for stone.
Tip: To care for onyx, seal it with a penetrating sealer, wipe up spills right away and clean it with products designed specifically for stone.
This steel framed entry door is welcoming in backlit honey onyx tiles.
Tiles of honey onyx add visual texture and surround the tub with warmth.
In this contemporary bath, cut onyx tile makes interesting stripes and almost looks like wood next to gray limestone.
Here the onyx tops a bar and forms a raised waterfall counter in a modern home.
A honey onyx counter, backsplash and vessel sink transform this old furniture piece into a stunning vanity.
In an unusual application, honey onyx peeks out from under a floating vanity in this master bath.
Another view of the same bath shows a coordinating honey onyx waterfall counter and shower panels. The shower wall appears to be two bookmatched pieces, which are cut from the same section of rock and laid to look like mirror images of each other.
Honey onyx costs $50 and up per square foot for slabs, and about $20 per square foot for tile.