Photo is for reference only. Color, veining, and shading vary between slabs. This stone is brought in per order, so tell us your full run and we will source slabs from the same block.

Multicolor Onyx

Quarry: Turkey
Surface Finish: Polished
Edges: Natural (Unpolished)
Thickness: 18 mm
Requires Sealing: Yes

Put a light behind the panel and the amber, green and rust bands pull apart into layers. Multicolor Onyx is the most variable stone we sell, and two slabs off one shipment can reach Cebu as different palettes.

Quarry	Turkey
Surface Finish	Polished
Edges	Natural (Unpolished)
Thickness	18 mm
Requires Sealing	Yes

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Why Choose Multicolor Onyx

Translucent When Backlit Amber, green and rust bands separate into layers of color once a light sits behind the slab.

Unique Appearance The most variable stone we sell. Two slabs off one shipment can carry entirely different palettes.

Provides an Upscale Look One lit panel in a Cebu bar or reception is the thing people remember about the space.

Best as a Feature Onyx is at its finest on a backlit bar front, feature wall or vanity, where translucency becomes the centerpiece of a Cebu room.

What Is Multicolor Onyx?

Several colors in one slab, and a light behind all of them.

Multicolor Onyx is a translucent Turkish stone banded in amber, green, cream and rust, and all four turn up inside a single slab. Honey Onyx settles on one warm register; this one refuses to settle at all.

Light travels through it, and that single property is what justifies the money. Switch a fitting on behind a panel and the bands separate into layers, so what you are looking at reads as depth rather than as a printed surface.

What Is Onyx, Geologically?

Architectural onyx is banded calcite, dropped out of mineral-rich water in a cave or a spring and built up one layer at a time. Every band belongs to a different stretch of that process, and whatever trace minerals were in the water at the time set its color.

The black onyx in a jewelry case is chalcedony and shares nothing with this material beyond a name. That collision confuses a good many Cebu buyers before they ever reach the yard.

Why Do the Colors Vary So Much?

Because the water changed while the stone was forming. Iron accounts for the rusts and ambers, other traces account for the greens, and the clear bands mark the stretches when the water was running relatively pure.

Nothing else we sell moves this far between pieces. Two slabs off one shipment can arrive in Cebu carrying completely different palettes, and no photograph is going to prepare you for which one turns up.

Should You Book-Match It?

On a large panel, yes. Two sequential slabs opened out like a book put the banding into mirror image across the seam, and on a stone that moves this much the result turns a restless face into something plainly deliberate.

That has to be settled at the order, not later. The pair must be sawn in sequence and kept together from the block onward, which is not a decision anyone can make once the slabs have landed in Cebu.

How Much Does Multicolor Onyx Cost in Cebu?

Prices are subject to change without prior notice.

Item	Starting Rates
Multicolor Onyx slab	Quoted per project
Fabrication	₱500 per lm
Installation	₱500 per lm
Sink or hob cut-outs	₱500 per set

This is an indent order, so the slab is priced against your project and never read off a list. Cut-outs are charged only where we are handling the installation too, and the delivery figure tracks distance out from the Cebu branch: least inside Metro Cebu, more across to Mandaue, more again where the panel is bound for Bohol or Tagbilaran.

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How Do You Backlight Multicolor Onyx?

Neutral light, because the slab refuses to pick a side.

Backlighting is the reason to buy onyx. Unlit, you have bought a delicate and costly stone that reads like a restless marble; lit, it does something nothing else on a Cebu material board can match.

Color temperature is the wrinkle here. Warm ambers and cool greens share one slab, and a source that flatters either group is by definition failing the other.

Neutral white, in the region of 4000K, is the only balanced answer.
Go warmer and the greens go muddy; go cooler and the ambers go flat.
Diffused LED panels wash the face evenly, where separate fittings punch through as bright dots.
Keep an air gap behind the slab so warmth never collects against its back face.
Specify a dimmer, since the balance between the colors shifts as the output drops.
A thinner slab passes more light, so raise that when the order is placed.

Try the fitting against the real slab before the frame is committed. Color lands so unevenly from piece to piece that one rig behind two Multicolor slabs will not give you the same panel twice.

Detail the frame, the fitting and the access route together. Working any one of the three in behind a panel already on the wall is far harder than allowing for all three, and harder again once a Cebu fit-out has moved past that trade.

Where Should You Use Multicolor Onyx?

One feature, well lit, and nothing that takes wear.

Use it once in a space rather than repeatedly. Four colors and heavy banding need quiet around them, and a second Multicolor panel in the same Cebu room simply argues with the first.

The face of a bar or a reception desk
Lit feature walls and partition panels
Vanity tops and clad bathroom walls
Splashbacks on a run with no cooktop
Tabletops, inlays and decorative panels

Reception desks and bar fronts are where it belongs. They stand upright, they take no wear, they are lit on purpose in the first place, and they sit exactly where a Cebu business wants the thing people describe afterwards.

A Cebu bathroom takes it comfortably as well. A vanity absorbs a fraction of what a kitchen counter does, and a lit slab behind a basin earns its place on its own.

The one thing it cannot be is a surface that works. It scratches, it etches and it chips.

How Do You Clean Multicolor Onyx?

Three habits, and gentleness runs through all of them.

Use Only Onyx-Safe Cleaner

Acid and calcite react on contact, which rules out vinegar, calamansi and the bulk of what a bathroom cupboard holds. A pH-neutral stone cleaner is the only product that belongs here.

Wipe, Never Scrub

Anything abrasive leaves tracks across a stone this soft. A damp cloth under light pressure handles all a feature panel in a Cebu interior will ever meet.

Always Keep the Surface Dry

Droplets dry to marks on a polished translucent face, and standing moisture does more damage here than on a dense stone. A dry cloth at the end settles it.

The Cebu yard keeps specially-formulated stone cleaners in stock, so the correct product is agreed before the panel ever goes up.

How Do You Care for Multicolor Onyx?

Three habits that protect a fragile stone.

Seal It When It Needs It

Open pores and easy marking make sealing compulsory rather than optional. The water test sets the timing: a few drops on a hidden patch, fifteen minutes, a wipe, and darker stone underneath means another coat is owed, which on a Cebu vanity meeting cosmetics can be twice a year.

Keep Acids Away Entirely

Toilet cleaner, limescale remover, make-up and citrus all go after calcite. Light moves through this slab, so an etch alters the glow as much as it alters the finish.

Protect the Edges

Every band is a line the stone can part along, which is why edges chip here sooner than on granite or marble. An eased or bullnosed profile outlasts a sharp arris by a wide margin.

Is Multicolor Onyx Good for Kitchen Countertops?

Better said now than after fabrication.

No. Neither of the two onyx varieties we bring into Cebu belongs on a counter that has to work for a living, and this one is no exception.

Soft, open-pored and brittle puts it nearer alabaster than granite. A kitchen counter asks more of a material than any other surface in a house, and very little is less equipped to answer.

Tomato, vinegar and calamansi take the shine off on contact, sealer or no sealer.
A blade leaves a track, and a polished translucent face puts it on show.
Pans and pot handles catch the edges, and the banding gives a chip somewhere to start.
Tolerating the damage costs money and so does replacing the slab.

There is a way to keep it in the room. Send the onyx up the face of the island or onto a lit splashback well clear of the hob, and let something tougher take the top.

That top wants Absolute Black granite at ₱4,200 per square meter, or engineered quartz from ₱5,000, either of which does the work properly for a small share of the outlay.

Does Multicolor Onyx Need Sealing?

Non-negotiable, but on the stone’s schedule.

Yes. Nothing else we carry in Cebu is this open-pored, granite and marble included, which is why a sealer matters more on onyx than on anything else in the range.

Oil, wine, cosmetics and cleaning products all sink into unsealed onyx, and a mark buried in a translucent slab is worse than one sitting on an opaque surface, because it reads whether the fitting behind is on or off.

Let the stone call it. A few drops of water on an inconspicuous spot, fifteen minutes, then a wipe, and stone that has gone darker beneath tells you the sealer is spent. Six months is a fair enough guide for a Cebu vanity, and a guide is all it is.

What sealing does is help the stone resist staining. What it does nothing for is etching, because acid dissolves calcite the instant the two meet, and keeping citrus and descaler away is a separate job entirely.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Multicolor Onyx different from Honey Onyx?

It carries several colors in one slab instead of committing to a single palette. Honey stays with warm amber and gold, while this one runs ambers, greens, creams and rusts through the same piece.

Both reach Cebu the same way, on indent order, and both behave identically once installed. What separates them is purely how they look, and that in turn decides which light suits them.

What light temperature suits a multicolored slab?

Neutral white, around 4000K. Anything warmer muddies the greens and anything cooler flattens the ambers, so either extreme throws away half of what you bought.

Fitting a dimmer helps, because the balance between the colors moves as the output changes. Try it behind your own slab before the frame is finalized.

Should you book-match Multicolor Onyx?

On a large panel, yes. A mirrored seam turns restless banding into a symmetrical composition, and on this stone the difference is considerable.

It has to be raised at the order rather than at fabrication, since the slabs must be sawn in sequence and travel to Cebu together. Ask for the quotation to cover the pair from the start.

Why do two slabs look completely different?

Because the water changed as each band was laid down. Where the color falls is genuinely unpredictable, and nothing else in our range varies this widely.

Do not order from a photograph or a hand sample alone. Onyx comes into Cebu on indent rather than standing in the yard, so brief us on what the panel has to do and how it will be lit before anything is placed.

Does Multicolor Onyx etch and scratch?

Yes to both. Calcite gives up a thin layer to any acid that reaches it, and the stone is soft enough that grit and blades mark it without much effort.

On an upright feature panel in a Cebu lobby neither one ever comes up, which is the argument for putting it there. On a working counter both come up constantly, which is the argument against putting it anywhere else.

Why do onyx slabs have mesh backing?

The stone is brittle and the banding creates natural planes of weakness, so a bonded fiberglass mesh is what holds a slab together between the quarry and the wall.

It is universal for onyx and says nothing about the grade of material. It does interfere with backlighting, so flag a lit panel to your fabricator early.

Can Multicolor Onyx be used in a bathroom?

Yes, and a vanity or a clad wall is one of the better uses. A Cebu bathroom is a far gentler place than a kitchen, and a lit slab behind a basin is a feature in its own right.

Steer make-up, toner and limescale removers away from the surface, because each of them attacks calcite as readily as citrus. Reseal whenever the water test asks for it.

Where can you buy Multicolor Onyx in Cebu?

Stone Depot. Onyx is an indent order at every branch, Cebu among them, so the slab is ordered in for your project rather than sitting in a yard waiting to be picked over. Ask what the lead time is running at when you inquire.

Nothing else we sell benefits more from a clear brief before the order goes in. We supply and install across Cebu and ship out to Bohol, Leyte and Negros, and the Cebu branch is open Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 5 PM.

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