Marble. You dont feel the gaps between the pieces. choose one with white and pink.

The down side is it scratches too easily and need to be polished fr time to time. But once it is polished to perfection you see a sea of surface reflecting into your eyes. That is the beauty of marble. Nothing can compare, but you need a big area to really see its beauty. Be careful you slip when there is water on the surface.

So, the choice is simple, the hall marble, the kitchen, bathrooms tiles, bedrooms wood. You can have all of it !!!!

I like broken marble. The square and rectangular ones looks like tiles worse than tiles.

I have yet to see one. Where can i see at any public places?

By the way, marble or tiles it affects little to the property value especially if it is high end one. New buyer with so much money they usually hack all the finishing. They just wnat that piece of land/location and the structure.

wax it. The wax prevents liquid from getting suck in. The wax also prevent scratching and it shines like car wax.

Tile? becasue the big tile manufacturers keep advertising and you believe it. Marble is scare, they cut and cut all the hills in Ipoh and now cant find nice looking quality ones. Of course tile is easier to maintain, need not polishing.

You got hire the marble polisher to polish the whole floor and they will wax it. Waxing not only the marble surfaces but also the grout/joints, the whole floor. With this you will not feel the joints. Use specialy marble cleaner to clean and have to mop with clean mop, dirty mop will only get the dirt stains. Use a lot of water when mob without marble cleaner.

I remember there was polisher for sale some long time ago that you can buy and diy a small part at a time. The areas where the big furniture are not need to polish. But not sure if there is anymore in the market. It is not a big polisher but a small handheld one. The pro when they polish they use a lot of water like flooding the whole floor with some 4 or 5 people doing at the same time.

On marble floor you should not wear shoes, moving heavy object or have children riding tricycle. Walking on it with bear foot will not harm its polish. The shin is like cloud. Chinese called it as cloud stone.