Indoor Travertine Projects

• You can use travertine natural stones in your home to decorate hallway walls, rooms or your floor. It does pick up stains easily so consider how likely the kitchen floor would be to an acidic spill (tomato or orange juice) before you put it there. You can also use it to decorate a table top or end table, too. And you can use travertine for your bathroom sink counters or tub surrounds. Travertine's porous quality helps it to absorb water, making it a great addition in the bathroom for that benefit, especially for use as a backsplash tile at your sink. And while you can install travertine in your shower, you need to consider that it can be slippery when wet if polished, so forgo the high gloss look in that particular flooring setting.
  
  

Outdoor Travertine Projects

• Patio floors made with travertine stones have a look of elegance and withstand the elements as only natural stone can. This stone can be laid au natural, leaving the pits visible and unfilled, for a casual look, or the pits can be filled in with a similar color and coated with a sheen of gloss to seal the stone. If you use travertine as a counter in your outdoor kitchen you will want to seal it to help prevent stains from food items. Use travertine to create a retaining wall outdoors, walkways, steps or even a driveway.
  
  

Travertine Art Projects

• The softness of travertine lends itself for use in art efforts, too, including marbles, statues and bookends. According to the text, "Travertine" by Dr. Allan Pentecost, Italian travertine is often favored by those desiring to create monolithic statues of travertine. This can be evidenced by the American created statue titled, "Pedogna" by Walter Dusenbery, which is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and pays tribute to the Pedogna Valley in Italy.
  
  

Lower CostTravertine Projects

• Enjoy the costly and luxurious-looking travertine stone in your home or outdoor landscape -- without the additional expense over man-made products -- by limiting the amount of travertine used in the setting you choose. Combine travertine stone with grasses on walkways and choose unfilled stones to reduce the expense associated with sealing the stone. Add one or two travertine stones as steps leading to the front of your doorway instead of using for the entire entrance. Surround your mailbox with a house of travertine stones, formalizing your drive entrance instead of the entire driveway. Or you can make a travertine plant stand for your home like the one pictured in the resource section link below.