Thursday, July 22, 2010

Fireplace…The cultured stone

Hedberg (masonry supplies) delivered the mountain ledge cultured stone from Eldorado Stone to the “L” Shaped House late yesterday afternoon. We ordered four boxes of stone in the Mesa Verde color and one in Sierra. The plan is to cover the front face of the fireplace using predominately Mesa Verde but have Matt Sletten “sneak-in” a few Sierra stones to lighten up the stone face just a little.

The photo below shows two opened boxes of Mesa Verde stones. Here you can see that even within one color there is a lot of variation in tone and texture. Matt is going to build the wall using a “dry stack” method that basically eliminates grout lines and should produce a beautiful stone face on the front of the fireplace.

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