Antique stone fireplace
Ever tried to find a really good antique fireplace for your restoration project, but found that A. they’re not available, or B. you can find one, but that it costs a fortune! We’ve been involved in so many restoration projects where the latter two points always seemed to prevail, and so for a long time we have been experimenting with distressing stone, to see if we can come up with a method of making our stone fireplaces look like they have endured hundreds of years of wear and tear.
We finally think we’ve hit on something, and we’ll have some pictures up on here soon for you to consider, and to see if you agree. We will appreciate your feedback! Stone fireplaces are undeniably beautiful things, and an ability to offer a ‘distressed’ version of all our designs, will offer you more options when you are doing your renovations.
We won’t just offer the distressing service on our standard ranges. If you have a particular design or size of stone fireplace that you would like us to make, then our masons can make it, and we can give it the distressing treatment if you like.
Our customers have, over the years, come up with their own ageing methods for some of our stone items. Some have used an old dry teabag and rubbed it into the corners of the mouldings on stone stairs or stone mullions or stone fireplaces, and this has left a bit of what seems like grime in the corners: It looks very convincing.