Guest Blogger: The Beauty of Natural Stacked Stone in Your Home

Guest Blog Entry #14 –  (Entry #217) July 19, 2010

I have always been intrigued by natural building elements that add beauty and texture.  Accent and feature walls are a bonus to interiors as well as exteriors.  Today, Stagetecture welcomes Norstone USA, a manufacturer that is showing us how natural stacked stone can be used in a variety of applications and enticing our love for gorgeous stone products.

The classic beauty of natural stone walls is coveted as one of the many great luxury features of interior design. Norstone USA is a cutting-edge, international firm that is striving to make that great luxury much more affordable and accessible to all, using an entirely new, innovative twist to do it.

Norstone products are beautiful and easy to install

For the past 7 years, Norstone have put their nose to the grindstone, developing new techniques to manufacture their handmade flagship product line, Stacked Stone Rock Panels. These “Rock Panels” are handcrafted modular units, which stand 6” tall and span 24” wide (yep, that’s 1 square foot), and are designed to eliminate the headache and mess of installing loose pieces of stone to make your natural stone wall. Instead, Norstone has done the hard part for you – these Rock Panels install very much like natural stone tile, except no grout is needed, making them even easier and quicker to work with. That means installing your brand new stacked stone feature wall is now faster, simpler, and smarter than ever before, and with finished results that will leave even the toughest interior design critics swooning.

Norstone Ochre Rock Panels

“Probably one of my favorite aspects of our Rock Panels,” notes Kevin McGowan of Norstone, “is the dichotomy that, even though they are used in some of the world’s finest projects – from boutique concert halls to exclusive spa retreats – because of their easy installation attributes, they are available to everyone. Whether it’s their backsplash, fireplace, or pool feature, our clients enjoy one of the finest designer natural stone products available on the market at a very reasonable installed price.”

When it comes to color selections, Norstone is a master of simplicity with four main colors to choose from: soothing, earthy Ochre; cool toned and contemporary Charcoal; mellow, modern Ivory; and, most rare, the exquisite White Quartz.

Norstone colors come in a wide range of colors

Measuring for Norstone is as easy as a walk down memory lane, of Geometry class that is. Simply measure the height and length of your wall in feet and multiply the two values to arrive at your square footage. Because each Rock Panel is 1 square foot, your final figure is equivalent to the number of panels you need. If you have corners, you’ll want to measure from floor to ceiling the height of each corner and have that handy when you speak to Norstone.

Accent wall using Norstone natural stacked stone

Norstone’s remarkably unique finger-joint corner units are not to be missed. Dove-tailing together around the corner, these special Rock Panels provide you with the most seamless corner detail you can possibly imagine.

Whether you’re looking for that incredible value-add DIY project or you’ve just got to have the awe-inspiring beauty of clean, natural stacked stone, Norstone Rock Panels will make that process exponentially easier as well as provide you with world class results.

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