Stone cladding can be used in a myriad of ways, and you can come up with versatile and stylish results from them.
You can see great exposure of stone cladding on external projects, from commercial building façades to luxury home architecture and recognisable sites such as hotels, retail centres and golf courses.
The beauty of high-quality cladding ranges is that they are perfectly suited for internal use as well, and the huge array of designs and finishes that people have achieved can amaze you.
In this article we’re going to run through the most common and popular ways that we see stone cladding used in homes. Check out these stone cladding applications and get inspired!
Perhaps the most iconic of stone cladding fit outs is to a fireplace or chimney stack. As a commanding area in the home, fireplaces attract the eye. It’s for that reason then that you can see stone cladding used to amazing effect.
Make the fireplace the true focal point of your room with just a few square metres of natural stone cladding panels.
A staple of interior design, the feature wall has evolved over the decades from paint, to wallpaper, to material textures and then, the cycle begins again.
Perhaps one of the most important advancement in feature walls in the last decade or so is stacked stone, or stone cladding panels. These thin natural stone veneers allow you to apply a genuine stone finish to any wall, but the slim size and advanced fixing methodology means you don’t have problems with massive weight or affixing issues.
Stone cladding gives a 100 per cent authentic, real stone finish with a beautiful range of colours and hues.
The new normal is for our bathrooms to be a haven, a retreat, a place for pampering and to re-invigorate ourselves. Enter stone cladding! It can be used sparingly as a feature or extensively to fully cover your bathroom, and it will bring style, elegance and luxury to a previously overlooked and often out-dated part of your property. Please note, it is not recommended to install natural stone cladding in the immediate wet areas of the bathroom…this is due to maintenance and cleaning.
Whether it’s the brilliant natural white, or the natural stone qualities of the charcoal rock panel, the three dimensional randomly stacked stone wall inevitably creates a conversation piece.
Most properties today are rated quite heavily on the kitchen – its no exaggeration to say that a poorly designed kitchen with a ‘bad look’ will turn off potential buyers, whereas a stunning highly designed kitchen space will add thousands in value to your home.
With the rise of open plan spaces, we often see the kitchen, dining and living spaces blending together and this is where stone cladding can really add huge impact in terms of its placement, and the way it can be used to tie the different areas together.
Whilst not a common feature in many homes, if you do have a column, pillar or stack in your property, you would be amazed at how easy it is to completely alter its appearance with a stone cladding wrap.
Precision cut stone cladding units are quick and easy to fit and complete the impression of a very substantial natural stone wall.
By applying them to columns or pillars, we can get a fantastic look in a short timeframe.
Finally, a last use for stone cladding that looks really incredible… Using natural stone cladding on radius walls and curves.
Do you have a home with curved walls or round rooms? Radius walls make a very interesting and distinctive design element and create a distinctive sculptural statement. Let your imagination run free to create sensational feature walls that will enhance your indoor or outdoor living spaces.
The rugged texture of the 3-dimensional stone helps to delineate the curvature of the wall to create a very edgy and impressive design.
Curved or radius walls can be free-standing or part of an existing structure, the choice is yours.
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