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Cultured stone is a brand that is manufactured and marketed by a company called Owens Corning. The aim of cultured stone is to create the look and feel of real stone work, right down to the last detail, without requiring the same expensive and difficult material and construction methods and costs that working with real stone would entail. Many people love stone fireplaces and cultured stone fireplace are really becoming a lot more popular now that people are getting more used to the fact that cultured stone looks good, does not buckle under extreme heat, and costs a lot less than a genuine stone fireplace would cost you.
Cultured stone fireplaces are by far the most popular type of stone fireplace that uses synthetic stone work. Cultured stone takes great pains to ensure that its fireplaces look and feel as real as possible and they make stone moulds that are extremely close to the look, feel and texture of the traditional stone work from which they are modelled. In fact, in many cases, customers have been unable to tell the difference between a cultured stone fireplace and a real stone fireplace. Cultured stone fireplaces can follow one of the company’s two design and style philosophies. The first is that a cultured stone fireplace should look as close as physically possible to an actual stone fireplace. This would mean not only that the stone work looks the same as if it had been carried out with real stones, but that upon close inspection, each individual stone looks as close to the real stones as possible. It is this exquisite attention to detail in cultured stone fireplaces that makes Owens corning five times more popular than its largest rivals and a market leader in the production and manufacture of cultured stone fireplaces. The second design philosophy that you may see in a cultured stone fire place is that traditional stone work may be enhanced. There are a couple of ways in which cultured stone fireplaces can depart from a strict conformity with traditional stone fireplaces. The first is in cost. Real stone fireplaces can cost a lot of money, but also, making a cultured stone fireplace look as real as possible can also be quite expensive, and outside the budgets of some, and therefore, some cultured stone fireplaces may follow genuine stone less precisely so that they can bring down the cost of their product for customers that are on a tighter budget. The second way cultured stone fireplaces move away from the traditional stone look is when they are seeking to create stone effects that better suit modern design styles. This can include fitting stonework into larger projects or into spaces where it would not traditionally be possible, or by changing elements of the stone design such as shape or colour. In any case, a cultured stone fireplace should look great in your home. |
