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Natural stone flooring is a type of green flooring that can create a wonder to your home. With natural stone flooring you can not only support environmental causes, but also can get tax concessions as well as high funding offers.

The stone floorings can create a classy and elegant look with cool and calming effect like ceramic tile. The various ranges of designs, colors and textures are available in different types of stone flooring.

There are various types of stone floorings like different types of carpet designs. Here is a small description of the major stone flooring materials –

- Granite: It is hard and scratch-resistant stone with acid etching. There are also hundreds types of granites used for flooring.

- Limestone: It is a kind of sedimentary stone. The formulating elements are sediment and calcite. It comes in a wide range of colors, mainly earthen.

- Sandstone: It is also another kind of sedimentary stone. Its main component is quartz sand. It also has a wide variety under itself.

- Slate: It is a kind of metamorphic stone. It is composed of shale, clay and quartz. It spreads as an upper sheet of the flooring. It is available in a range of colors – from red, black to green.

- Marble: It is a kind of limestone; rather it is a metamorphic limestone. There are different types of marble stones. These are rather soft, but can easily be molded and acid-etched.

There are also other types of natural stone flooring like Travertine, Agglomerate stone etc.