Marble house designs in the Indian context constantly change and upgrade with time but never go out of style. Marble a timeless and versatile material, finds its application in various settings ranging from flooring to ornamentation. If you are looking for marble house ideas to add a touch of quality and luxury to your home, we have got you covered. This blog explores 25 classic Indian marble design ideas that echo numerous possibilities to incorporate the stunning marble stone into your home.
In this home, natural stones like marble, effortlessly elevate the interiors of a home. Laying out marble that combines exoticness with nature is always a visual treat that adds luxury and comfort to the user. A wide range of imported marble, especially Italian marble is naturally exotic and offers a statement to any space used. To achieve a natural look with marble, it’s essential to opt for pre-polished marble, as it offers superior shine and a more authentic appearance compared to marble polished on-site.
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Designed By: Prachiti Khanvilkar Designs
Location: Upper Juhu, Mumbai
Principal Architect: Ar. Prachiti Khanvilkar
Photograph Courtesy: Prashant Bhat
If you prefer uniform spaces, this style is for you. Applying a single type of marble to the entire home in all its applications offers uniformity and continuity to the theme while creating sleek, clean, and smooth interiors. Choose light-coloured marble to achieve a crisp finish in such cases. Imported marble, like a Statuario from Italy is used in this home to extract a stunning monotonous interior.
Designed By: Tejomaya Architects & Interior Designers
Location: Pune
Principal Architect: Ar. Ekta Ahuja
Photograph Courtesy: Sagar Mandal
Use marble accents, wallpapers, panelings, and claddings for walls to enhance and differentiate your interiors. In this home, a play of different types of marble not only creates interesting patterns for the user but also offers a focal point and variety to the space. Choose contrasting marble types to achieve a non-dominant yet aesthetic look. When selecting marble for various applications, it’s crucial to choose the right thickness of 20 mm.
Designed By: Designers Touch Architects
Location: Chennai
Principal Architects: Ar. Rahul D Jain & Ar. Pooja Jain
Photograph Courtesy: Lanchi Jain
While opting for dark-coloured marble, it is essential to match the tone with hints and pops of light-coloured marble and vice versa. A balance of these dark and light colours is crucial to maintain the subtleness and overall essence of the space. Pre-polished marble ensures that the colour you choose in the store remains consistent when installed. In contrast, marble polished on-site may result in variations in colour and pattern during the polishing process. In this house, the dramatic tone of flooring in the kitchen is beautifully harmonized with the soft colours in the backsplashes.
Designed By: Midas Luxury Interiors
Principal Designer: Rachana Goyam
Photograph Courtesy: Praveen Vijayan
Marble design that aligns and blends with architectural styles is crucial. This house reflects a neo-classical style of architecture in its interiors. Light-colored marble with grey veining patterns complements the dark wood furnishing theme of the house.
Designed By: AKG Design Studio
Principal Designer: Ashwina Ketan Gandhi
Photograph Courtesy: Hemant Patil
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Marble is vital in highlighting an element or feature in a specific space. This bedroom infuses a backlit onyx marble in a custom-made bed back wall, which gives away an illuminating glow when lit up. These elements offer an unmatched elegance through the backdrop as the feature wall, which when backlit at night, creates a captivating feel.
Designed By: House Of Hues
Location: Ghatkopar (East), Mumbai
Principal Architects: Dhwani Kanani and Vijal Parmani
Photograph Courtesy: Aaditya Kulkarni, Photographix
Use accessories in spaces like the living room and bedroom to elevate the characteristics and shine of marble. In this house, accessories like carpets, rugs, and jhula underline and enrich the beauty of pre-polished marble flooring. These elements while adding aesthetics to the space, protect the marble from external damage and scratches.
Designed By: Tesor Designs
Location: Bangalore
Principal Designer: Rajesh Kudlu
Photograph Courtesy: Phosart Studio
Marble isn’t just for interiors; the incorporation of marble in outdoor spaces, facades, or other exterior elements offers a unique look to the entire home. In this home, marble is used as a feature wall for the name board, and marble flooring at the entrance foyer provides a rich and elegant look to the approach.
Designed By: Design Manish Manglaw
Location: Surat
Principal Designer: Manish Manglaw
Photograph Courtesy: Studio 2:3
Break the monotonous pattern of marble flooring or wall paneling with hints of other materials like wood, glass, metal, etc., This not only creates a visual interest but also offers class and versatility, especially in large spaces like living rooms.
Designed By: Evenleap Design Studio LLP
Location: Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Principal Architect: Ar. Malay Gadkar
For homes, following an interior color palette, match marble applications, especially in the flooring, to create a contrasting yet aligning look with interior furnishings. This house uses beige Italian marble flooring that subtly contrasts with the dark brown furnishings in the interiors.
Designed By: The Crossboundaries
Location: Vadodara, Gujarat
Principal Architect: Harsh Boghani
Photograph Courtesy: Cross Clicks
Opt for marble patterns in flooring that suit the other interior elements like wall patterns, furnishings, and color tones. Light brown flooring patterns blending with luxurious elements like dark wood and pendant lights, elevate the elegance and quality of the pre-polished marble and the space.
Designed By: Design Inc.
Location: Udaipur, Rajasthan
Principal Architects: Ar Sandeep Jain & Ar Anup Murdia
Photograph Courtesy: Pratikruti09
Mix a combination of marble features in the same space to offer variety and quirkiness. A minimal area has been transformed using three different marble patterns through the featured wall and two types of flooring. This, while breaking the monotony of the room, offers a luxurious look and a variety of shine through different finishes in pre-polished marble.
Designed By: Sculpt Design Studio
Location: Rashmi Apartment, Pitampura, New Delhi
Principal Architects: Chirag Gupta & Ar. Vardha Aggarwal
Photograph Courtesy: Takenin Studio
Create an integration between the floors and walls with continuous and identical marble patterns. This design highlights the pre-polished marble and its shine throughout the space. Add an interesting sculpture or statement piece to top the look.
Designed By: Spaxis Design
Principal Designers: Sanjana Kantawala & Helly Shah
Photograph Courtesy: Pixellus Photography
Use the same type, color, and pattern of marble for various elements of a space—bed headboards, tabletops, flooring, feature walls, TV Backdrops, etc., Additionally, combining marble with other materials of the same color and pattern throughout creates a luxurious yet minimal design.
Designed By: Henge Architects
Location: Salem, Tamil Nadu
Principal Architects: Ar. Darshan Singhania & Vidushi Agarwal Singhania
Photograph Courtesy: Tripleopixel
When choosing marble, especially colors, consider external factors like natural light and the orientation of the house. Ensure to verify these preferences with pre-polished marble, as its colors and patterns remain consistent after installation, unlike on-site polished marble which can show variations. Light-colored marble, when combined with natural light, can provide the illusion of a larger, brighter room, even in small spaces.
Designed By: P & T Design Studio
Location: Lodha World Towers, Lower Parel, Mumbai
Principal Designers: Tejal Shah & Pallavi Goel
Photograph Courtesy: Anuja Kambli
Mulberry marble with breaks of American walnut wood grains, in this home, creates a cozy and aesthetic backdrop to the living room. Elements like these textures and backgrounds create an inviting atmosphere sphere not only for the users but also for the guests.
Designed By: The DesignBOX
Location: Mumbai
Principal Architects: Ar. Shilpa Kabra & Ar. Rajat Kabra
Photograph Courtesy: Manthan Yadav
Play with pastel and solid colors for other interior furnishings. This helps enhance and highlight the marble patterns and shine in a space. Marble’s exclusivity and elegance are reflected in these design ideas. This house offers a subtle and classy look with grey-veined Italian marble slabs while not letting the furnishings dominate the space.
Designed By: Interiors By Ar. Manasi Bhatt
Location: Hiranandani Powai, Mumbai
Principal Architect: Manasi Bhatt
Use LED lights to highlight the veining pattern of the marble slab. This is a great contributing factor to aesthetics and creates a pleasant environment for the user. In this house, LEDs are used on floors as well as the dining table where Onyx marble is backlit, offering a different aura while eating. An appropriate thickness of 20 MM is essential to install additional factors, as other thicknesses of 18 MM and 16 MM would be too thin.
Designed By: Space Makeers
Location: Rajhans Royalton, Vesu, Surat, Gujarat
Principal Designers: Abhishek Jadav & Toral Patel
Photograph Courtesy: Noaidwin Sttudio
Marble with a touch of gold can never go wrong. Gold accents add luxury and shine to the already polished and shining material of marble. This master bathroom reflects gold accents through gold profile partitions and golden veining pattern inlays in the marble. This pairing best suits Calacatta Gold marble or any other marble with light and warm tones.
Designed By: Design Boutikk
Location: Hulimavu Lake, Bannerghatta, Bangalore
Principal Designer: Rinkoo Gupta
Photograph Courtesy: Anushree Bhatter
Embrace the home with authentic European furnishings with Italian marble flooring that effortlessly transforms a space from zero to a hundred. Antique couches, chairs, and tables along with accessories like mirrors and ornaments elevate the richness of marble floors in the space.
Designed By: architecture aNew
Location: #76, sector 7 Panchkula
Principal Architects: Ar. Amrit Panwar & Ar. Satish Panwar
Photograph Courtesy: architecture aNew
Go all white with marble which offers a majestic and sophisticated look to the space. This design adds a contemporary touch to the interiors using minimal materials and elements. The bathroom in this house, with subtle veining patterns, light marble colors, and a pop of blue creates a sleek and crisp style.
Designed By: Dojo Design Studio & Studio D’Design
Location: New Cuff Parade, Wadala, Mumbai
Principal Architects: Ar. Nirali Mehta & Ar. Simran Dhairyawan
Photograph Courtesy: Wabi-Sabi Studio
Use pre-polished marble slabs for steps, especially risers to achieve a complete look in the interiors. Here, the combination of shiny pre-polished marble with antique wood adds richness and a rustic look to the space. This also adds continuity to the design concept of the house.
Designed By: KSD Studio
Location: Aamby Valley, Maharashtra
Principal Architect: Ar.Kshiti Shah
Photograph Courtesy: Yadnyesh Joshi
With exposed bricks and organic materials, create a raw finish that complements the marble type. Interior furnishings often define the way marble is projected. Prefer matte-finish 20 MM marble slabs that blend with the raw theme of the space.
Designed By: Amoeba Design
Principal Architects: Ar. Pashmin Shah & Ar. Satyajeet Patwardhan
Photograph Courtesy: Kuber Shah
Include minimal furniture, subtle color tones, and window screens that allow the pre-polished marble to shine, in its way. This also avoids too many elements in a space and adds sophistication to the design intent.
Designed By: Rachaita Architects
Location: Surat, Gujarat
Principal Architects: Ashvin Dobariya, Akash & Nidhi Dobariya
If your home follows a certain theme or concept, choose or customize marble designs, colors, patterns, and styles that reflect the overall tone. In this home, customization extends beyond just flooring. You can personalize marble house designs in specific areas of the home as well—shelves, wall panels, backsplashes, etc.,
Designed By: AVVO
Location: Andheri West, Mumbai
Principal Architect: Ar. Raj Kothari
Photograph Courtesy: Nilkanth Bharucha
Marble has been a vital feature of Indian households for decades, reflecting both wealth and heritage. The above 25 Indian marble house design ideas will inspire you to bring the classic elegance of marble into your home. Whether you’re renovating a small area or designing an entire home, choose pre-polished marble to flawlessly bring your desired styles, colors, and patterns to life, exactly as envisioned. Thus, marble’s adaptability lets it blend into both traditional and modern settings, bringing value, elegance, and a feeling of grandeur to each area it adorns.
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