Your dining room offers one of the most unique interior design opportunities in the home. From family meal times to dinner parties with guests, creating a sense of luxury is a must and there are no better matching materials to use to achieve that aim than leather and marble.

Leather and Marble: A match made in dining heaven

Marble and leather are two luxurious materials and can be used in a variety of ways to create elegant and sophisticated spaces. These materials allow for a combination of warmth and glamour at the same time–both of which are important for a dining room. 

Using Marble for Your Dining Table

Marble is a highly prized natural stone known for its exquisite beauty and practical durability. The iconic and classic white stone with grey veining is a timeless material with an endlessly appealing aesthetic that can be used throughout the home.

Marble tables also take advantage of the long-lasting and hardy properties of this stone which is critical for an area of the house that’s going to be exposed to high-traffic, activity, food and drink. 

Using Leather for Your Dining Chairs

Leather, like marble, has long been associated with quality and luxury. For good reason. This premium material is made from the skins and hides of animals, and produced through either tanning or chemical treatment to be long lasting, highly practical and super comfortable. 

Leather is used in many furniture applications in the home but is particularly well suited to dining chairs. Why? It looks elegant, it feels comfortable and it’s easy to seamlessly create a stylish design.

Matching Marble Dining Table and Leather Chairs

A dining room incorporating both a marble table and leather chairs is not just guaranteed to look and feel luxurious, but it’s also highly practical.

We’re not just talking about the hardiness of the dining table or the comfortable nature of the chairs. Rather, we’re referring to the many different interior design styles that can be achieved through the use of both marble and leather. 

Modern

Modern interior designs typically feature neutral colour palettes and minimalist furniture, both of which are classic attributes of both leather and marble. Additionally, the sleek and sophisticated look of these materials easily lend themselves to achieving the clean lines that are popular among modern design enthusiasts.

Classic

A classic, timeless interior design style focuses on traditional furnishings and other ornate details. Marble and leather are both timeless materials and have been used for centuries for that exact reason. Whether your leather dining chairs are wingback in style or the marble dining room table is shaped in the classic style, how you achieve a timeless design with these materials is up to you. 

Industrial

Industrial aesthetics celebrate the use of exposed architecture and raw materials. Both marble and leather can be adapted to reflect a raw aesthetic without sacrificing warmth and texture. Additionally, leather sofas and marble coffee tables can create a strong visual contrast with soft and hard textures which is very reminiscent of industrial interior design. 

Rustic

The rustic home style focuses on using earthy colours–which both marble and leather can be supplied in–and natural materials. Marble, being a natural stone, and leather, made from animal hides, are both natural materials and look it! These organic materials can be customised based on their application to create the cozy, rustic feel this design style is going for. 

Art Deco

Art deco styled homes are known for incorporating bold geometric shapes, metallic finishes or accents, and a real sense of glamour. Marble and leather are both excellent materials for using in opulent settings or to create a really glamorous atmosphere. If you do want to use metallic accents as well, you can as both materials can be effectively matching with all sorts of metal materials. 

How to Match Marble and Leather for a Luxury Dining Space

While marble and leather really are a perfect pair of dining room materials, there are a few tips we recommend when incorporating them together. 

Use a complementary colour scheme

Marble and leather are both available in a variety of different colours. When you’re mixing and matching the two materials, we recommend opting for a complementary colour scheme. Whether you opt for two neutral colours such as white, grey or beige, or want something more bold and visually striking, your marble and leather must match. 

Juxtapose textures for visual depth

Marble dining room tables are known for their smooth texture yet intricate visual veining and aesthetic. Matching the smooth stone with leather dining chairs that are highly textured will add a level of visual depth to your dining space. The more visually interesting and impressive the space, the more enhanced the sense of luxury will be.

Prioritise simplicity in design  

More often than not, with interior design, less is actually more. Using and matching marble and leather allows you to create all the luxuriousness you’re after without having to risk adding too much decor and unnecessary accessories. 

Find the Perfect Marble Dining Table with Euro Marble

There is simply no better pairing for a dining room than a marble table and leather chair. If you’re after a slab of marble stone that will stand out and look beautiful with just about any choice of leather chairs, make sure to come into our showroom right here at Euro Marble today!

Fireplaces make for a lovely addition for many homes and offer a lot of versatility both in practicality in use and opportunity for internal décor and design. Modern stone fireplaces are becoming more and more popular in contemporary homes and yet there is still opportunity for you to make it your own.

There are many options when it comes to stone fireplaces, so whether you love entertaining around it, cozying up with the family in the warmth, or just lounging about, here are a variety of modern stone fireplace ideas you are going to love.

All White Fireplace

All white stone fireplaces are perfect for that modern, minimalist home. Whether you’re using snow-white marble or stone bricks painted white, keeping the surroundings of your fireplace plain and white is an effective way of infusing a light and bright feel to your entire home.

While white stone fireplaces can look magnificent coupled with a range of furniture and other interior design aesthetics, you can double down on the mesmerising effect with equally stunning white furniture.

The Floating Fireplace

This modern fireplace idea is best suited outside where you have the space to construct this luxurious design. Centered with a stonework base, the fire sits in the middle of the platform with the extending chimney descending from the pergola roof above. The floating centre fireplace design leaves plenty of room for family and friends to sit around and is as practical as it is stylish.

Polished White Marble with a Black Mantel

While this stoneplace idea reuses the concept of pure white marble from Idea #1, the inclusion of a black mantel works to bring out the overall effect and helps to ground the overly white and bright fireplace area. Black and white colour palettes are increasingly popular in modern and contemporary homes, making this idea even more suited.

Black Marble with Veins

If you like the idea of incorporating dark, moody colours into your fireplace, there are fewer materials that can make more of a visual impact than glossy black marble. With a variety of shades and veiny patterns available, you can customise the level of complexity in the aesthetic of your marble to suit your taste. Black veined marble is particularly impactful when incorporated in a full length, floor to ceiling fireplace.

Stacked Stone Fireplaces

Stacked stone fireplaces walk the line finely between modern and contemporary decor and a more traditional or almost rustic look. By keeping the stacked stones a light, blonde or cool toned shade you can benefit from the earthy, complex aesthetic whilst still keeping the overall effect minimalist and modern. Plus, the horizontally stacked stone slabs with cool shades contrasts stunningly with the vertically rising, warm glow of the fire.

Fireplace Frame

A fireplace frame gives you a lot of opportunity to customise and tailor the design of your space to your liking. Even if your fireplace is not made of stone, you can still benefit from using natural stone to huge effect in the form of a fireplace frame. A modern stone fireplace framed with a black marble or ivory-coloured marble will look stunning in just about any contemporary-styled home. 

Grey Marble

Grey is a very popular colour for use in modern homes. With the lightness that is lost with black shades and a complexity and warmth that can be lost with white shades, grey marble can blend with a wide variety of interior design styles. A contemporary stone fireplace made from grey marble will seamlessly blend into a wide variety of lounge and living spaces.

Firewood Wall

Using stone on glass is a popular design choice for modern homes and there’s plenty of scope to do the same with your fireplace. A wall of firewood kept behind a pane of glass beside an exposed stone brick fireplace will look wonderful in most spaces. Of course, the stacked wood might not suit every home environment, but if you’re looking to incorporate a practical and stylish feature in your fireplace, this is certainly a winner.

Colour and Stone

Earthy-coloured stone, like limestone and travertine, looks fantastic next to coloured tiles like blue or dark red. This is an effective method for retaining the minimalist modern design aesthetic while still injecting a bit of vibrancy and colour around your fireplace.

Rough-cut Stone Walls

Large roughly-cut stones of different sizes and shapes making up the surrounding wall of your fireplace is a bold and visually beautiful arrangement that perfectly suits the modern home. There’s still plenty of scope to mix and match the colour and shading of the stones used and being roughly-cut, the sizes and shapes can be customised as well.

Double Stone Fireplaces

If you’re a big fan of natural stone–and you bet your bottom dollar we are–you’ll love incorporating a complementary stone mantel above and around the original stone of your fireplace. This laidback yet sophisticated look makes the most of the unique stone of your fireplace while decorating the mantel with luxurious, contemporary styled stone as well.

Find Out More

If you’d like to find out more about the practical and stylish benefits of incorporating stone fireplaces into your home, make sure to reach out to the team here at Euro Marble on (02) 8585 2999. We love helping our customers find the perfect modern stone fireplace to match their preferences, needs and home designs. 

Having a fireplace in your home was mostly functional once upon a time, but they remain a unique way to provide warmth and infuse character into a house. A fireplace and mantel almost always becomes the centrepiece of any room. It draws the eyes of guests and is sure to leave a lasting impression one way or the other. 

That’s exactly why when you’re choosing your fireplace decor it’s important to bear in mind that while you’re likely to put the fireplace to good use during the colder months, you’ll want to prioritise fireplace decor ideas that are suitable for all seasons.

To help you out, we’ve curated some of the best fireplace ideas that won’t date with the years or the season.

Symmetrical Decor

Keeping your fireplace decor symmetrical and balanced is an easy way to ensure it’s timeless..

Whether you add accessories, indoor plants, or art make sure you mirror the same style and design on the other side of the mantel and your positioning is centered. Even if you don’t use the same ornaments on both sides, make sure it’s evenly balanced nonetheless.

Keeping the design of your fireplace and the decor symmetrical will ensure that as the seasons change your fireplace won’t start to look out of place or overbearing in the living room. 

Rustic or Country Styling

While some like to differentiate between country decor and rustic styles, we’re going to lump them together under the category of earthy, rural aesthetics.

Incorporating country decorating ideas for fireplace mantels, like exposed brick, is an excellent way to ensure a timeless visual quality that won’t detract from any other woods or natural stones used in your interior design.

Old, unfinished-looking wooden mantels complement the country vibes of a rustic decor, especially when decorating old fireplaces.

Modern Fireplace Decor

Let’s flip the script and go in the opposite styling direction. An ultra-modern fireplace might not seem like an instinctive choice but the sleek, minimalism of modern interior design will help to keep your fireplace architecturally impressive even when not actually in use.

Your fireplace offers an additional opportunity to infuse your home’s overall style into another feature of the house.

Dark Colour Schemes

Of course, a dark interior colour scheme is not for everyone or suited for every home but it certainly makes for a bold statement. Dark stones or woods bring a moody and dramatic atmosphere to a home both when the fire is blazing and during sunny months. A dark mantel and fireplace is sure to be a conversation starter and eye opener.

Bold, Bright Fireplaces

If you want to do bold but don’t do the dark, a bright fireplace and mantel is a great decor idea. Bright colours, whether you want to go all white or not, will help bring light and a feeling of airy roominess to your home. Oranges, red and yellows go well with fireplaces for obvious reasons and will even evoke the visual iconography of the fireplace during non-fire seasons.

Go Scandinavian

Scandinavian styling focuses on simplicity and functionality. As far as fireplace decor ideas go, bringing a Sacndi feel to your fireplace is a great way to keep the area warm enough to feel homely but minimalistic enough not to make the room feel overstuffed or crowded.

Place Some Plants

Greenery and indoor plants are becoming more and more popular as indoor design choices. Your fireplace need not be any different. Placing some ferns and delicately arrayed inside plants can bring a natural quality and environmental feel to your home and fireplace. Winter or summer, plants never go out of style.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Mirrors are always an excellent choice to adorn a mantel and fireplace. Mirrors in general are a fantastic way to make the room feel longer and roomier. Throw in there the mesmerising visuals of a blazing fireplace and you’ll make a real impression on family members and visitors.

The best part of placing a mirror by your fireplace is that even when it isn’t in use, your decor won’t make the feature look out of place or odd in any season. Plus, if you feel like adding extra luxury and wow-factor into your fireplace space you can opt for an ornate-style mirror as well.

Smart Art Choices

Displaying a thoughtful piece of art centred and above your fireplace is an excellent fireplace decor idea for all seasons. Artwork always plays an important role in interior design and can be used to balance your fireplace by adding a second layer on a surface that is often left bare and under-utilised.

Hang A TV

If you’re not sold on the mirror or artwork ideas but still want to use the space above your fireplace, incorporating a TV into the design is an excellent choice. You can leave a hanging TV exposed, build it into flanks or panels in the wall, or incorporate minimalist accessories around or under it on the mantelpiece as well. It’s a functional and fashionable way to decorate your fireplace.

Traditional Clock

A fourth option we recommend for non-seasonal specific fireplace decor to sit above the mantel is a classic, traditional clock. You can customise your choice of clock to suit your preferred style. Oversized, maximalist clocks look fantastic and draw the eye upwards. At the same time, a small, sleek clock will ensure that the space doesn’t feel too busy especially if you’re thinking of pairing this design choice with other accessories, photos, ornaments or houseplants.

Natural Stone

Nothing beats natural stone! Durable in use and magnificent in appearance, the look of exposed natural stone coupled with a fireplace will put a smile on your face all year long.

With so many different types of stone, colour/shading, veining and patterns, you can find the perfect type of stone to suit your fireplace architecture and match the rest of your house. Not to mention the fact that natural stone is long-lasting and super easy to maintain. 

Of course, the team here at Euro Marble are the experts at all things natural stone and we’ve worked on many fireplace projects throughout the Sydney area. If you’re thinking of using natural stone in your fireplace, or if you simply want to chat through some additional fireplace decor ideas, make sure to get in touch with us today.