Paired stone should be darker: black marble and dark slate

A stone material paired with dark wood. Its lightness is even lower than that of wood: dark gray slate, near-black marble with fine white veins, or dark green, almost black quartzite; the surface is honed or sandblasted matte, non-reflective. It appears in only two places: countertops and flooring, or the inner edge of a fireplace opening. The stone's texture is fine and should not overpower the wood grain. Avoid: using light-colored stone to create contrast, using polished, reflective stone surfaces, selecting stone with strong textures, allowing the stone area to be larger than the wood area.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一塊配給深色木的石材。它的明度比木還低:深灰的板岩、近黑帶白細紋的大理石、或深綠近黑的石英岩;表面是珩磨或噴砂的霧面,不反光。它只出現在兩個地方:檯面與地坪,或壁爐的開口內緣。石的紋理是細的,不能搶過木紋。避免:使用淺色石材製造對比、使用拋光到反光的石面、選用紋理強烈的石材、讓石材的面積大過木材。