A new project with rope design columns. Not something we do everyday, 

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This is what he designs and builds for himself with the stone he uses every day for others 

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Styles can be difficult to define, one person’s traditional is another’s modern, and a third’s archaic. Fireplace surrounds come in a wide variety of styles and sizes. The basic shape of the inner firebox is one way we group our fireplace designs. 

These are Square Top and Gothic Arch Top

These three are Circle Top, Oval Top, and Eyebrow. 

Fireplaces in all shapes

Some styles don’t quite fit into any of these, or into more than one. We also have a “search by style” page.

This is one example of French Country Style below

Fireplaces in all shapes

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We have hundreds of different fireplace surround designs we do, straight from our catalog. Smooth, rounded, square classical, modern, nearly any style is covered, and each design has size option and additional choices. 

One of our most popular designs is the Provence, and it has quite a set of options you can choose from, without leaving standard catalog designs. 

The Provence has 5 different standard widths of firebox areas, 40″, 42″, 48″, 54″, & 60″. The space you have in your project for the fireplace will likely govern your choice of width. See the chart at the bottom of this post to see the complete dimensions of any of the Provence catalog designs. See all our Fireplace Design here at StoneMagic.com

First is the basic Provence design, what we call “petite”. 

Fireplace Surround Options – Provence

Next we add a lower mantel to the design. Each of these mantel options come in all 5 standard sizes. 

This photo also shows another option. The photo above and the rest below all show a 2″ hearth stone at the floor, while this one has a deeper one, maybe 6″ high. We can produce a raised hearth of just about any height. 

Then comes the full floor-to-ceiling mantel. 

Notice the color pattern on this one, a custom option. We can produce custom matched colors, as well as textures like this one, called Coral Stone. This hearth has a beveled edge to it as well. 

The next image shows a different design, that includes an extra high full mantel. We can easily customize elements like the mantel height to exactly match your room. 

The next shows a simple custom design, a full length mantel WITHOUT the lower mantel section. Like the previous photo example, this is not a standard design, but it is a simple customization, something we design and produce often. 

Below is a chart of the different dimensions of each variation of the Provence design. We can make one to fit your project, and this is just one of 40 basic catalog designs we have in our most recent catalog, all having size, hearth, and design options, and decorative touches. Call us at 800-597-3606, info@stonemagic.com, or see the website, stonemagic.com

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Building with Blocks

Cast Stone Blocks used as wall veneer

     The cast stone marks the lower level, the blocks set off by an almost basement-like window and a wide chimney.

Blocks can become a full home veneer.

Cast Stone blocks as a complete wall veneer, with surrounds

Cast Stone Blocks as complete wall veneer and quoins

Cast Stone Blocks as Quoins

Blocks can be used as Quoins with a Veneer of blocks behind it, or with brick, stucco or cut stone.

Cast Stone Blocks used as Pavers and Stairs

Cast Stone used as facing of column features

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Cast Stone used inside the home.

We do many fireplaces, we have a separate catalog just for fireplaces. However, there is quite a bit you can with stone on the interior of a home besides a fireplace mantel, or in addition to a fireplace mantel.

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Louisiana Cast Stone Signage

– Some time ago we posted a couple of signs we did for the Louisiana Department of Transportation (see here)

These and other designs were approved and are now in production, and we’ve been photographing them in the lot, drying a bit and waiting for shipment.

Below is the two designs never seen before, both very musical.

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Cast Stone Facades

The Facade is the front facing section of a home. Any home may have more decorative and architectural than others or less, but one section faces the street and shows off what attractiveness the home has to offer. 

We pull images from many places, as samples and inspiration for all to view and use. The following images show a variety of cast stone facades.

Stucco facade with cast stone staircase and surrounds

a simpler facade of stucco and cast stone, it also includes a version of the same patterned panels as in the two images above.

Further facades, specifically ones made of Stone Legends Cast Stone are visible here.

And here on our Pinterest pages

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Church Window Restoration – 

Some time ago we were tasked with reproducing the stone for a very elaborate stained glass window, 

Each piece of cast stone was drawn, reproducing the original design, creating repeatable sections of the window parts. 

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Georgian Home Restoration – 

Some time ago the Dallas Morning News ran an article on a classic historical home in one of the better residential neighborhoods of Dallas. 

This three-level Georgian style home was designed by a prominent architect of the day, Anton Korn, and was built in 1922. The cast stone was replaced with new, that had to match old materials in style, color, and texture. It sold for something like 9 million dollars. 

This type of restoration stone is something we do pretty regularly. We don’t often replace stone, properly made it should never wear out. But things happen, accidents will happen, and when they happen to cast stone, we often are called on to design and produce replacement stone parts and complete units. 

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