| Travertine tiles are made from travertine rocks, also | | | | One of the most striking features that set apart the |
| called as calcareous tuff found near lakes or vales. In | | | | ordinary tiles from the tumbled is their appearance. |
| their natural state, they can be rough and porous. But | | | | Though the ordinary looks like bricks and can be |
| when they are polished, their true colors will come | | | | added for an antique feel, the refined and polished |
| out as a tumbled travertine. | | | | features of tumbled is that they have a more |
| Ordinary tiles have differences with tumbled. One | | | | antique look than the ordinary. These tiles, when |
| fact is that their natural state, rough and porous. | | | | polished, turns into a whiter color. Ordinary ones |
| Since they have been just made and formed out of | | | | sometimes has even red colors. This white color |
| raw rocks, original travertine have a rough texture. | | | | contributes to the effect of an antique home, plus |
| On the other hand, tumbled travertine has a polished, | | | | their nearly-smooth texture that perfectly resembles |
| nearly-smooth texture. A discerning feature for this | | | | bricks from the 18th century. It also has a flatter |
| kind of tiles is that polishing is part of their | | | | patina that subdues color and less traction so that it's |
| manufacturing process. | | | | easy to walk on. |
| Another difference between the ordinary and the | | | | Getting ordinary travertine for your home is a |
| tumbled is their shapes. The tumbled kind have a | | | | wonderful decoration idea, for it can enhance the |
| lightly-rounded shape. A part of their manufacturing | | | | potential of your design. There are several variants |
| or "tumbling" process is their change of shape from a | | | | of these ordinary tiles, and one of them is tumbled |
| coarse, straight shaped like in an ordinary one into a | | | | travertine tiles. Give them a try in your house, and |
| lightly-rounded one. These ordinary tiles, obviously, | | | | you'll see that tumbled travertine will lend you an |
| have a more raw shape than a refined tumbled tiles. | | | | antique character for your home. |