Stone Fireplace, Stone Staircase, Limestone Fireplaces

Do you want your stone fireplace to look really old, like it was made hundreds of years ago? Well we’ve been experimenting a bit with different grades of stone, and different methods, and have come up with what we think is a really good result. We are just making a sample fireplace that we can put in our showroom with the other un-distressed stone fireplaces.

There’s no reason why we couldn’t use the same method on any of the things we make. Stone mullions would look good with the same treatment as it would replicate years of wear, and even a stone staircase would look like it had come through 500 years of wear and tear if we distressed it in the same way.

Of course you can always do your own bit of ageing. just rubbing a few corners, or pressing a used tea bag into the corners of the mouldings can impart a bit of authentic looking grime onto an otherwise ‘new’ stone fireplace.  There are dozens of possibilities, and you could experiment with your own ideas on a scrap piece of stone.

We hope to have our distressed sample in the next few weeks and we will be posting pictures on here as soon as we have it. It’s just another option to consider when choosing your new stone fireplace.

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