Your essential fireplace is made of three or four parts that are visible to the casual viewer, the hearth, the mantel, the firebox, and (sometimes) the chimney. It’s a simple task to have these parts cut by a CNC machine from a natural stone of your choice or to cover these parts in a thin or full bed veneer, depending on the strength of your home’s infrastructure, however this is hardly the full potential of natural stone. Book matched slabs and a recessed firebox are great ways to elevate your fireplace, transforming the rustic into the futuristic. Polished natural stone isn’t a conventional choice for fireplace materials and thus instantly grabs the attention of the viewer. Alternatively, you could take a hard turn back to the past with the river stone stylings of a fireplace like those produced by Ancient Art of Stone, a team that has produced enormous floor-to-ceiling showstoppers out of rounded river rock.
Regardless of your stylistic sensibilities, the fireplace is an excellent feature to bring back to the fore with a quality material like natural stone. Check out UseNaturalStone.org for inspiration!
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