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Granite has been a favourite building stone since the time of the pharoahs and is still a popular choice with interior designers today.

There has been a dramatic increase in the popularity of granite as a surface material in kitchens and bathrooms thanks to the many home improvement programmes on television showing modern custom made granite worktops The reality is that you can buy granite tiles and natural stone tiles for a similar price to the many stone effect tiles on the market today and the educated designer looks at the initial cost, aesthetic benefits of using a natural stone tile and the life expectancy of the product and soon realises that the cheap stone effect tiles are a poor substitute for the real thing; especially for floor tiles in high traffic areas:- Porcelain tiles are probably the only exception thanks to their resistance to staining and hard wearing surface; Ceramic floor tiles rely on a surface glaze for their appearance and unfortunately this tends to wear away rather than create character with age. Granite tiles have a depth of pattern that's very difficult if not impossible to mimic accurately: Granite is a naturally translucent material that has a depth or 3-dimensional quality and orientation to the crystal pattern; hence, once you compare granite to a granite effect tile you soon realise that the pattern is as unique as a fingerprint or security hologram. It's the lustrous crystalline quality and incredible hard wearing properties that make granite tiles and worktops so special.