Design & Decor Magazine published their "Great Outdoors Issue" (May 2020) and Delgado Stone Distributors was honored to be a part of it. Published annually in the Design & Decor Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey edition, the issue spotlights current trends on outdoor design.
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Outdoor Fireplace made with CT Blend Ashlar featured on page #28
Getting ready to make an upgrade to your home exterior can make for an exciting process. It’s always a thrill to update and improve your home, both because it gives you an opportunity to make it more your own, and because you likely stand to increase your property value. At the same time however, this process has to be gone about carefully. You’ll want to be absolutely sure that you’re getting your money’s worth, that you can afford the upgrades, and that the end results will give you the satisfaction you’re looking for.
Hot Tub with CT Blend Ledge Facade
To help ensure you check all of those boxes, read on for our tips on how to prepare for a project of this nature.
When it comes to using Natural Stone Veneer on the interior of your home the most common application is for a fireplace. While we love the hundreds of fireplaces we’ve contributed in creating like this Connecticut Blend Ledge fireplace below, we also like to see the different ways natural stone is used throughout a home.
CT Blend Ledge Fireplace
The Saw Shop opened earlier this year and we introduced a new line of landscape products, including our sawn flagstone (flagging). As with the introduction of any new product we often receive questions asking for clarification on the difference between the standard “split” flagging and the new sawn flagging.
Saw Shop Cutting Liberty Hill Flagstone.
One of the greatest pleasures we have in the building materials industry is to see how our products are used from start to finish. We recently received pictures from Leslie Gustafson & Co., an Interior Design Firm in New York, of a veneer stone fireplace project. A common misconception when working with real stone veneer is that people use it for exterior applications only. While stone veneer is an excellent product for external use it is also very common for interior fireplaces, walls, and other decorative applications.