Creative Faux Panels» faux stacked stone http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog A blog filled with ways to add a little "faux" brick, stone or wood to your home or business. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:33:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A Year of Faux Panels http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/faux-panels-year http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/faux-panels-year#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:20:34 +0000 Robin http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/?p=1347 New styles, new colors, new projects, oh my! It was a year of creative abundance and renewal in all things Faux, and as the very successful year of 2010 winds down, we can only look forward to what’s in store for us and our customers’ homes and projects in the upcoming year. There’s so much that happened, it’s hard to encapsulate – but here’s a snapshot of what was a very merry year of Faux Panels.

New Lines and Styles

Cambridge Faux Brick Panels

Cambridge Panels
Carlton Fieldstone Panels

Carlton Fieldstone
Nailon Stone Wall Siding Nailon Stone Wall Siding
Raised Grain Faux Wood Panels Raised Grain Panels
River Rock Faux Rock Panels Wellington River Rock Panels
Windsor Random Rock Mailbox Column Windsor Random Rock Mailbox
Woodland Faux Wood Wall Panels Woodland Panels
Universal Accessories, faux stone keystones, wall caps and wall capitals Universal Accessories

New Colors for Old Favorites

New color choices were added to the ever-popular Carlton and Norwich lines, making it even easier to find the right faux panels for your design project, indoors or out. Harvest, Desert Sky, and Smoke are now available on Carlton’s Cobblestone, Ledgestone, and Castle Rock styles, while Norwich’s Colorado Stacked Stone is now available in Toasted Vanilla.

Faux Ledgestone Panel

Ledgestone in Harvest

Faux Cobblestone Panel

Cobblestone in Desert Sky

Castle Rock Faux Rock Panel

Castle Rock in Smoke

Stone Veneer Stacked Stone Panel

Stacked Stone in Toasted Vanilla

To see all the new customer projects, head over to our photo gallery and testimonials pages which just keep getting bigger! We hope the best for you in 2011 and can’t wait to see what you can accomplish with Faux Panels this year.

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]]> http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/faux-panels-year/feed 0 Makeover Monday – From Blah to Beautiful on a Budget http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/makeover-monday-%e2%80%93-from-blah-to-beautiful-on-a-budget http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/makeover-monday-%e2%80%93-from-blah-to-beautiful-on-a-budget#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:41:02 +0000 Robin http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/?p=339 Growing up in southern Connecticut, I lived in a charming old colonial built by a local blacksmith in the late 1700’s. As children do, I completely took for granted the two brick fireplaces, one in the formal living room and the other in the dining room, with the latter’s back end exposed through the kitchen wall. All that lovely old brick…

Now as an adult I live in a modern house built in the 1980’s that does indeed have a fireplace, but the only thing that surrounds it is a bunch of flat, ugly black metal. Not so inspiring. So how can I reclaim a little bit of that pre-Revolutionary New England charm without breaking my piggy bank? Fireplaces can act as the centerpiece of your home – I really want an inviting place for family and guests to gather and enjoy each other’s company.

Fireplace Before Photo

Fireplace Before Photo

A recent customer, Bill Nalli from Moravia, New York, sent in these photos from his project using the Regency Stacked Stone faux panels. He’s surrounded a plain black fireplace just like mine with the panels, reinvigorating his entire sitting/television room. He wrote in that he installed the panels all by himself and had fun doing it!

Fireplace After Photo

Fireplace After Photo

Whether I go with a more traditional brick panel or try out the stacked stone, Mr. Nalli has given me hope that I can turn my own blah fireplace into something beautiful my kids can remember fondly when they’re grown up – and I won’t have to spend their college funds to get it.

 

 

 

 

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