Your condominium lobby and common area set the tone for the whole property. Overall, if the lobby and hallways of your building convey elegance and style, property values goes up…for you and everyone in the building. So polishing marble floors in the common area can go a long way toward setting the tone you want.
The leading real estate site cooperator.com puts it this way:
“According to residential interior design experts, a building’s common areas should not be neglected since shabby lobbies, hallways, community rooms, or even doorways and vestibules can detract from a building’s overall appearance, and possibly take away from the value of each individual unit…”Good-looking common areas are important as a prelude to the rest of the building,” says Marjorie Hilton, president of Manhattan-based Marjorie Hilton Interiors. “You want people to have a good, solid, significant impression when they walk in.”
A Typical Assignment – Polishing Marble Floors to Upgrade Common Area
Recently a condo building in Boston contacted us via their property management company. We like working for property managers because they understand the value we can bring to a condominium setting.
Even under the best of conditions, marble flooring generally gets a lot of wear and tear in a common area setting. In addition, there is slush and snow from Boston winters, and sand and salt that go along with it. Additionally, some cleaning companies may occasionally use harsh or acidic cleaning chemicals that can eat into the stone’s surface. In this case, they had even more foot traffic – they had just undergone a major renovation. By the time is was done, they had dust everywhere and construction workers had been traipsing through for weeks on end!
After the long renovation, the condominium residents wanted to clean their marble steps and polish the black and white marble at their upper lobby. Photos of before and after are above. (You may have to right click each image and select ‘open image in new tab’ to see the full size photo).
All things considered, they were so pleased the property manager wrote us a letter of recommendation! Click that image, too, to see what she had to say.
To see other posts about polishing marble floors, you can see this post about a Cambridge kitchen floor, this one about repairing acid damaged floors and this one about polishing marble stairs in Brookline.
If you manage a condominium building with marble stairs or a marble lobby and you want it honed, cleaned, sealed, repaired or polished, feel free to get in touch with us for a free estimate. Then we’ll email you a quote, stick to it and make you look good by making the marble look great!
Call 617-221-4002 or fill out the form below to get your quote.
Our Contact Information:
Act One – Marble and Tile
15 Main Street # 138
Watertown MA 02472-4403
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