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The Buyer’s Reality Check: How to Verify High-Quality Natural Marble Before You Commit There’s a moment every architect, designer, or project buyer knows too well: you fall in love with a white marble slab under showroom lights, approve it fast, and then reality hits after installation. The surface looks slightly different in daylight. The veins feel less “clean” than expected. The shine loses its pop sooner than planned. Suddenly, a stone that seemed perfect starts behaving like a daily maintenance project. This is not bad luck. In most cases, it’s a verification problem. Natural marble isn’t a uniform manufactured material. Two slabs with the same name can behave very differently depending on compactness, grain structure, micro-porosity, and how the finish is achieved. If you want marble to stay elegant instead of becoming a regret, you need a practical way to judge it beyond appearance. This article gives you a field-ready framework to evaluate mar...