Like every other decision on the house, this one took much consideration. We have been trying to find the right mix of stone - mostly gray with some brown, roughly rectangular and square in shape. We looked at several stone distributor websites, drove around Great Falls and Vienna looking at homes with stone facades, and even visited a stone yard in Rockville, Maryland.
It was in the stone yard that we found a stone we felt pretty good about, called "Silver Lake". The Builder bought one pallet and the mason set up the stone at the front corner of the garage, for us to review.
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Actually what the mason did was a "mock up". Steve and I walked over this morning to look at this front corner of the garage. In general we like it a lot. We like the sizes and shapes of the stones. And the variety of color is very close to what we want. We can probably be happy with it, although it has more brown in the color range than we had wanted. But it's very pretty. I think we will ask the Builder to mix in a couple pallets of a stone called "Corinthian Granite", which is predominantly gray. That should balance out the brown.
We also want to ask that the mortar joints between stones be a little smaller/tighter. But it's a great beginning for the stonework on the house.
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