Stone Veneer
Masonry has been around for thousands of years and people have been
building houses, walls, and many other things out of bricks and stones.
Modern day masons still do plenty of stonework and bricklaying but
in the past decade and a half something that is becoming quite popular
is stone veneer. Stone veneer can be put together in factories and
is much thinner and easier to work with so it is easily transportable,
unlike stone and brick work of the past that had to be laid on the
spot. You can purchase stone or brick veneer as well and have it cut
to the sizes you need in order to put it up yourself. Brick and stone
veneer looks as realistic as having the actual stone or brick laid
down the old fashioned way, but being much thinner and easy to work
with it is becoming very desirable, the prices are much cheaper as
well.
Stone veneer is one of the best things to achieve the look of real stone
without having to spend the time and money on a full masonry project. Stone
veneer is available in sheets of pretty large sizes and many people are starting
to buy stone veneer siding or even just a brick veneer fireplace face. Many
of the larger home supply stores carry all kinds of veneer and usually they
can deliver it right to your home after they cut the sheets to the sizes
you need.
You can also hire someone to come do this all for you and it will
still be cheaper than having the traditional masonry done, and
when it is finished no one will be able to tell the difference. When getting
real stone veneer it is still going to cost a bit, and an even cheaper route
could be getting artificial stone veneer which looks just as nice as the
real deal.