This gorgeous lake house design evokes French Country style through the elegance and sophisticated stone colors of a custom blend of Fond du Lac stone veneers and cut stone arches, caps, and window surrounds on the home facade. The highest level of the garden terrace for the back yard’s sloped hill is a custom field ledge stone arrangement with a natural stone pattern mix of Fond du Lac Ashlar (Country Squire), Webwall, and Castle Rock stone veneers. Fond du Lac Cut Stone is the perfect match of real stone cut for the wall stone caps in combination with the exterior full veneer stone or thin stone cladding of the home and landscape design. The lower levels of dry stacked stone retaining wall feature Fond du Lac Random Boulders. The natural stone steps that navigate beach goers to the bottom of the slope look to be a mix of Fond du Lac Outcropping Steps and Snapped Steps. At the base of the elevation, a lakeside beach fire pit surrounded by a circle of Granite Cobbles and Boulders and adirondack chair seating sets an inviting scene for an outdoor back yard bonfire.
Fond du Lac Random Boulders, Fond du Lac Outcropping Stone Steps, and Fond du Lac Snapped Steps stone products bring arctic stone color tones to our Cobbles and Boulders, retaining Wall Stone, Outcroppings and natural stone Steps Lines of landscape design products. By sourcing real stone pieces for landscape and full veneer stone masonry and thin stone cladding purposes from the same quarries, we promote material matching and symmetry among all parts of a your interior / exterior stone veneer and landscape stone design project. Fond du Lac Random Boulders range in lengths from 24″ to 96″, widths from 12″ to 60″, and heights from 12″ to 60″. Fond du Lac Snapped Steps range in widths from 17″ to 19″ and 23″ to 25″ depending on coverage area selected (see spec sheet for coverage area options) and are available in 5″ to 8″ heights; lengths vary by coverage area. Fond du Lac Outcropping Steps range in diameters from 18″ to 60″ and are available in 5″ to 8″ heights. The natural stone color range for all of the above Fond du Lac stone landscape design products includes grays, light grays to whites, and occasional buffs. The Granite Cobbles and Boulders for the fire pit can range significantly in diameter according to boulder applications versus cobbles landscape stone applications. Their real stone color range is contrasting yet complementary to the Fond du Lac landscape stone materials; with reds, pinks, blacks, and blues.
The custom blend of Fond du Lac stone veneer showcased on the top terrace of the retaining wall stone in mortared stone full veneer or thin stone cladding is an arctic natural stone color match to the stone home facade and other stone landscaping features. Ashlar describes the finest masonry units of dressed and cut stones that are worked until squared. Capable of thin joints between stones, the linear appearance of an ashlar pattern stone installation results in the most traditional natural stone masonry application. Pieces range in heights from 1/2″ to 8″, with lengths from 6″ up to 42″ for full veneer and 6″ up to 24″ for thin veneer stone. Split to rough squares and rectangles, Fond du Lac Castle Rock ranges in heights from 4″ to 12″, with lengths from 6″ up to 42″ for full veneer and 6″ up to 24″ for thin veneer stone. Fond du Lac Webwall Mosaic’s artistic assemblage of irregular and random shapes consists of pieces ranging in diameters from 3″ to 16″ for full veneer and 3” to 12” for thin veneer stone. A finished dry stacked stone or mortared stone masonry grout installation in the Ashlar stone veneer pattern is sometimes referred to as a 2:1 pattern; a finished Castle Stone veneer will result in a castlestone-style appearance; and finished Mosaic stone masonry results in a classic cobbles, webwall, river rock or fieldstone veneer pattern. The real stone color range of this combination of patterned stone products includes grays, light grays, buffs, and whites. The sophisticated natural stone color arctic tones of Fond du Lac Cut Stone for the wall stone caps and arched window surrounds’ Architectural Stone Cut details tie it all together.
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