The Many Faces of Stone Veneer
by | Posted in Customer Design Projects 1 Comment »Stone veneer has multiple personalities. Don’t worry, we’re not getting into Sybil-territory here…you won’t wake up in the morning and see your walls changing colors or anything.
We mean that statement in the best sense in that stone veneer panels and siding can virtually be used in any room, on any exterior in any application with amazing results. If you’ve got the design imagination (and we’re confident you do), then stone veneer is ready to carry your plans to fruition.
If that imagination of yours just needs a teeny-tiny bit of a jumpstart, here’s just a few places where you can put stone veneer to good design use.
When you hear about accent walls in interior design circles, they’re often referring to using paint to emphasize a single wall of a room to create visual interest. While this is a solid idea, let’s get a little more exciting, shall we? Stone veneer is a great alternative to paint in that you’re adding the bold texture of stonework in addition to color, and even better, stone veneer never needs a re-coat.
Over at our sister blog, Faux Wood Workshop, we recently talked about using faux wood mantels to improve the look of a fireplace. You can take the design even further by installing stone veneer as a fireplace border, as a decorative backing to a wood stove or laying it in all the way up the chimney. Many of our customers choose faux stone veneer panels to enhance the look of their fireplace, not only for the realistic look of stone, but also because their installation is much easier than building from scratch with the real thing.
Kitchens and Bathrooms
Stone veneer’s polyurethane composition is impervious to moisture – making it a perfect option for those high-moisture areas of your home. You can create backsplashes, surround an above-floor bath, kitchen island or cover every wall in the room – pretty much anything goes.
Stone veneer’s other claim to fame is its ability to withstand extreme weather and climate conditions without failure, making it a great choice for creating exterior columns. These could be anything from driveway columns, fence columns or stand-alone decorative columns to porch and mailbox posts.
These were just a small sampling of ideas of what you can accomplish with stone veneer – you can find more here by browsing through our photo gallery. Or you may come up with your own that we’ve never seen before. (We LOVE when that happens). If you’ve got a finished project that used stone veneer, send in the photos! We’re always looking to see what our customers come up with next.
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