Suggestions appreciated for best results discontinued stone

[Blunt Tool]

Ok gents, suggestions for best way to merge these two floors together. 610x610x20mm tumbled travertine supplied by Mandarin stone. Discontinued, no spares! Customer took down a partition wall thinking easy to get spares, to the left 30 square metres, to the right 40 square metres. Money not really an object, and been given free hand to sort this out. Customer quite open to solutions but not really wanting to rip out any tiles if possible. The length of wall taken down runs wall to wall 4 metres.

 

[Blunt Tool]

Forgot to say there is heated wire kits under both floors

 

[WetSaw]

Can you remove the doorway section and put a strip complementing/contrasting what's there?

Is it still going to be 2 separate areas?

 

[Blunt Tool]

Yes any material, colour etc contemporary anything!

 

[One Day]

If the floor is nice and flat, over-fix with Porcelthin.
Whatever you do otherwise it's always going to stand out.

 

[Blunt Tool]

Stone must stay, no going over

 

[Blunt Tool]

To the left leads into a kitchen to the right was the formal dining room

 

[One Day]

Stone must stay, no going over

I could (probably) mix up a base colour with a few large tins of straw Tenax and then get my artist's brushes out to do a bit of a Michelangelo....

 

[One Day]

Being travertine, it's not like you could even prize a few up from somewhere else in the rooms.

 

[Dumbo]

If you know what travertine it is I expect somebody will still do it . Then refinish it to the finish you have .

 

[One Day]

If you know what marble it is I expect somebody will still do it . Then refinish it to the finish you have .

The chance of the shade and veining being even remotely close is next to nil!

 

[Blunt Tool]

I suggested taking doorway piece away, straighten and manufacture edge again and fill with matching pebble mosaic, said I was boring and to think outside the box!

 

[Dumbo]

The chance of the shade and veining being even remotely close is next to nil!

But we are dealing with somebody who wishes not to change their floor and although it will show it can probably got to a close colour with things like colour intensifiers or coloured waxes

 

[WetSaw]

Nick KateJ's idea....

 

[One Day]

But we are dealing with somebody who wishes not to change their floor and although it will show it can probably got to a close colour with things like colour intensifiers or coloured waxes

It will 100% stand out like a sore thumb no matter how hard you try.
Might as well go for full-on feature strip.

Get something like this made:
Bubbles in water encased in glass, strong enough to walk on...

 

[Blunt Tool]

Nick KateJ's idea.... View attachment 93129

I know after customer said that I thought ok red orange purple it is then

 

[Blunt Tool]

I remember reading a story about how the Japanese don't throw any porcelain or china ornaments out if damaged they get them repaired with pure gold as it highlights the journey the piece has been thru as in life. But we are speaking about a lot of gold and even they would be gasping and they are really really not short!

 

[Old Mod]

Any images that give an overview of the rooms Ian?

 

[One Day]

I remember reading a story about how the Japanese don't throw any porcelain or china ornaments out if damaged they get them repaired with pure gold as it highlights the journey the piece has been thru as in life. But we are speaking about a lot of gold and even they would be gasping and they are really really not short!

 

[Blunt Tool]

Any images that give an overview of the rooms Ian?

Haha you won't believe this Marc but not allowed to as customer very very private and not allowed. Camera only allowed to take floor photos haha rich people they are all daft or eccentric as they call it haha

 

[Old Mod]

Haha you won't believe this Marc but not allowed to as customer very very private and not allowed. Camera only allowed to take floor photos haha rich people they are all daft or eccentric as they call it haha

Oh I would believe it, I've experienced it.

 

[Blunt Tool]

Haha you won't believe this Marc but not allowed to as customer very very private and not allowed. Camera only allowed to take floor photos haha rich people they are all daft or eccentric as they call it haha

Now I'm worried in case they see this as they sip their cognac on their yacht in Monte Carlo! Haha

 

[Old Mod]

Ok so cut in an ebony border around perimeter of every room/area.

Or a contrasting piece of stone with a water jet cut inlay, with the words,

'I've got more money than sense!'

 

[Old Mod]

Now I'm worried in case they see this as they sip their cognac on their yacht in Monte Carlo! Haha

Yes I can tell whose house it is by the colour of the floorboards under the Trav.

 

[WetSaw]

Might as well go for full-on feature strip.

Depending on the room layout that idea could look really good. Brushed stainless border with LED lighting under frosted glass..

 

[Blunt Tool]

Yes I can tell whose house it is by the colour of the floorboards under the Trav.

There's floorboards, Wedi boards, screed, uncoupling mat. Would you go down the traditional route and try and match in or contemporary? No tripping hazard and don't be boring is what I've been told

 

[Dumbo]

If you've been told don't be boring got to be a comtempory contrast .

 

[Old Mod]

There's floorboards, Wedi boards, screed, uncoupling mat. Would you go down the traditional route and try and match in or contemporary? No tripping hazard and don't be boring is what I've been told

You're not being given much to work with have you. One small strip between two areas, hardly a feature wall.
4m x 150m? In 70m2 what kind of statement can you make.
You can get tiles with led's in them, that can project images on to the tiles, even watch Tv, of sorts.
But again, not much width. So at best you could get a pretty pattern changing colour or something similar.

 

[Blunt Tool]

You're not being given much to work with have you. One small strip between two areas, hardly a feature wall.
4m x 150m? In 70m2 what kind of statement can you make.
You can get tiles with led's in them, that can project images on to the tiles, even watch Tv, of sorts.
But again, not much width. So at best you could get a pretty pattern changing colour or something similar.

Don't suppose your wife fancies making more mosaics

 

[WetSaw]

That new saw has got to earn its keep!