Stone Veneer
Stone Veneer
Over twenty-five veneers on display, up on the wall where you can see them together and put your hands on them. River rock, ledgestone, limestone, stacked and cut — and we install it too.
Why On the Wall
You Cannot Choose Stone From a Photograph
Stone is the one material that photographs badly. Colour shifts under different light, the scale of a sample board lies about how it reads across a whole chimney breast, and two veneers that look identical online sit completely differently next to each other.
So we put them on the wall, full panels, side by side, under the same light. Bring a cushion, a floor sample or a photograph of the room and hold it up against them.
Our thin veneer comes through Frederick Block, Brick & Stone, in flats and matching corners so a chimney breast reads with real depth rather than a pasted-on face. Anything in their range we can get; what is on the wall in Front Royal is the short list we keep because it works.
Where It Goes
Not Only the Fireplace
Fireplaces and chimney breasts
Inside
The obvious one, and the one that changes a room most. Veneer over a tired brick fireplace, a full floor-to-ceiling breast on a new build, or a stone face around a new insert to hide the surround panel.
We handle the whole thing — the substrate, the scratch coat, the setting, the corners and the pointing — and we do it with the appliance clearances in mind, which a general contractor often does not.
- Full breast or a partial surround
- Corner pieces so the returns do not read as fake
- Hearth and mantel coordinated at the same time
Chases, columns and outside
Outside
A vinyl-sided chimney chase is the single thing that most obviously dates a house from the street. Veneer it and the whole elevation changes.
Porch columns, foundation skirts, outdoor kitchens and outdoor fireplaces too — see masonry and hardscaping. Outside work has to be detailed properly at the top and the bottom or water gets behind it, which is exactly the kind of thing a chimney company thinks about.
- Chimney chases — the highest-impact exterior job we do
- Weather detailing at the flashing, the cap and the grade
- Outdoor fireplaces and kitchens
Fitting
What Makes It Look Real or Fake
Come See It
See Them Together
Twenty-five-plus veneers on the wall in the showroom, in the same light, at full scale. That is a fifteen minute visit that will save you a decision you regret for twenty years.