Natural stone / shell limestone on stairs - fake the look?

Hello everyone,

I was checking out tiles yesterday and also looked for something for my stairs. Now I have fallen in love with a shell limestone with a brushed (so smooth but with texture) tread surface (on top) and raw broken front edge (at the front). Additionally, there should be no protruding tread edge but it should be cut at a miter. And to make it even more complicated, my staircase has 17 steps and is 1.50 m wide. Roughly calculated yesterday, it comes to about €400 PER STEP, which is clearly too much, and so I wondered if such a look could be replicated or completely faked with another material? Does anyone have experience with that? Does anyone have advice? Otherwise I currently don’t like what I could put on my stairs. They are formed as a concrete component in the house and I only need to know how high the buildup should be.

Regards Flo

I was looking at cars yesterday and also checked out sports cars. Now I have fallen in love with a Lotus. In addition, the paintwork is supposed to be made of 24 k gold,… and so I thought about whether such an appearance could not be imitated with other materials or completely faked? :)

In addition, the paintwork is supposed to be made of 24 karat gold,… and so I was wondering whether such an appearance can be imitated or completely faked with other materials?

You can get it cheaply laminated. But that only works if you wear at least 3 pounds of gold chains on you.

and so I was wondering whether such an appearance can be imitated or completely faked with other materials?

No. Do it properly or use something else.

This is cast as a concrete component in the house and I just need to know how high the structure should be.

Just wait and see how the staircase actually turns out. Cast in the raw construction usually means crooked and uneven with lots of rework needed to get the correct heights.