Advantages of Stone Around the Home

As a homeowner, there are numerous benefits to installing stone around the home as decor and as an exterior finish. At Cloudstone, we believe that having elements of stone in and around your home can enhance your area of living in many ways.Read on to consider a few of the advantages of stone around the home!

Aesthetic Enhancement

The most obvious benefit of using stone around the home is that it provides a new aesthetic to your home. Not only will it be refreshing when installed, but it’s an impressive sight to see on any home.

Variety in Colors and Texture

In addition to an aesthetic enhancement, stone used for construction and decor can come in a wide variety of colors and textures. This gives you the flexibility to select a color that goes well with the theme of your home and the texture that’s as smooth or rough as you prefer - while getting all of the other advantages of stone!

Highly Durable & Protective

Because of stone’s natural attributes, it is an incredibly durable resource to use around your home. You can rest assured that the stones you use on or around your home is going to survive through the strongest storms, fastest winds and other situations out of our control. Stone can also be used to help reinforce your home. When used with other home projects, stone can act as anchor in your yard, porch or patio when heavy storms pass by and you can rest assured that your stone additions won’t be going anywhere.

Low Maintenance & Easy to Clean

Stone exteriors and decor are both relatively easy to clean and will require little maintenance. The cleaning strategies that you will need will vary from stone to stone, so make sure you know what kind of stone you’re using and how to clean it.

Budget Friendly

Because of the above advantages of stone, stone structures, exteriors and decor is known for lasting longer while providing numerous benefits to you and your home. This means that your money stretches further over the long term!

If you’re looking to install a stone exterior to your home, install a stone wall or structure around your home, or simply use stone as decor, there are many advantages to having stone around your home. Give us a call or contact us today at Cloudstone and we can help you bring your ideas to life!

Cloudstone Pinterest & Houzz

Social media has been growing in popularity over the years for a variety of communities, individuals and businesses alike. The benefits to both the content creators and the consumers are far and wide: businesses and creative individuals get to provide their content to the masses while consumers get to see what the world has to offer.

Cloudstone on Pinterest

The Cloudstone Pinterest account is an easy way of getting a visual representation of all of the projects we have taken on for our clients.

What is Pinterest?

Pinterest is a free, online website where users (individuals, groups, businesses, etc.) can upload, save, manage and organize images (which are known as ‘pins’ on the website) as well as other social media (such as videos). These images and other creative content is uploaded onto organized collections known as ‘pinboards.’

Where can I find Cloudstone on Pinterest?

You can find Cloudstone’s Pinterest account here, where you can see the home improvement projects we’ve worked on for our satisfied clients.

Cloudstone on Houzz

The Cloudstone Houzz account is a great way of keeping up with us, all of our projects (Ideabooks) and the activity within the online Houzz community.

What is Houzz?

Houzz is the central hub for the online community centered around architecture, interior design and decorating, landscaping design and home improvement.

Houzz is the central hub for the online community around home improvement, landscaping, interior design and decorating and architecture.

What kind of projects are on Cloudstone’s Houzz?

On our Houzz account, you’ll see all of the projects that we’ve completed for our happy clients. If you’re ever interested in any project that you see, let us know and we’ll be able to help recreate the project or can help you make an idea unique and truly one-of-a-kind for your own home.

Where can I find Cloudstone on Houzz?

You can find Cloudstone’s Houzz account here, where you can learn more about us, our projects and Ideabooks and keep up with our activity in the Houzz community.

We want to help take your stone projects from idea to existence. All you need to do is give us a call or contact us today and we’ll help bring your dream to life, from start to finish. Bring us your questions and your idea and we’ll tell you how we’re going to make it a reality. Don’t wait, contact us today!

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Reasons Why You Want to Use Stone for Home Improvement

Whether you’re looking to build a new home, improve the exterior of your home, or add some flair to the interior, using stone for home improvement is a wise choice. As experts in the field, we highly recommend the use of stone for a variety of home improvement projects. Read on to see why we recommend stone for your home improvement projects.

Readily Available

Stone used for simple home improvement projects can be found just about anywhere. You can look around your home, construction sites, open fields, private property and more. Make sure that you ask or find out the local regulations before gathering stone anywhere that is not your property. For high end rock and stone, you can contact us at Cloudstone.

Easy to Work With

Small stones and simple home improvement projects can be done with relative ease. For the smaller projects, you don’t need an incredible amount of expertise working with stone. However, if your projects is more involved and you want to make sure it’s done right, then we recommend you contact professionals in your area.

Highly Durable and Long Lasting

Stone’s natural attributes make it an excellent choice for using as a resource in home improvement. Stone is not only durable and tough, but also fireproof, vermin-proof, bug free and going to be free of rot. By choosing stone over wooden frameworks, your structures and improvements could last centuries. If you keep your home within your own family, your grandchildren could end up using the same home with the same home improvements!

Appealing and Maintenance Free

As stone’s surface and exterior does not rot, won’t attract termites and woodpeckers, doesn’t need to be repainted, and does not require other expensive maintenance, you’ll get to save money in the long run. Stone’s aesthetic makes it appealing to many people, both to homeowners and onlookers.

And many more!

Stone has many other benefits to be used for exterior or interior home improvement projects. From superior insulation and conventionally accepted norms to better resale value and higher longevity, using stone is one of our most recommended ways to make your home more valuable through home improvement.

If you’re considering a home improvement project with exquisite stone, we highly recommend that you take your time with creating the best idea as it will last a lifetime. Give us a call at Cloudstone today and we can answer any of your questions and help you with every step of the process!

Outdoor Stone DIY Projects

There are countless do-it-yourself (DIY) projects that you can take on to enhance your home in one way or another. At Cloudstone, we are huge fans of using stone for DIY projects in and around the home. Check out a few of our recommendations for DIY projects that you can use outside your home using high end, reliable stone!

Fire Pit

A fire pit is an excellent addition to your property’s exterior, outdoors living area. If you’ve never done a home improvement or DIY project, a fire pit is a great place to start. It doesn’t take too long compared to other projects, is relatively easy to do, and adds an incredible amount of value. Not only is stone an uncommon sight to see among many homes, but it allows you to enjoy an at-home campfire. It also makes for a great gathering place for parties and get-togethers.

 

Benches and Seating

The next project we recommend, especially if you already have a fire pit or just got finished building one, is to add stone furniture: benches, stools and chairs. Make sure that you know where you want all of your seating to be as it will be somewhat difficult to relocate once it’s been built. Once you know where you want your seating to go, it can add a very unique way to lounge around with friends and family.

Tables and Countertops

You can combine stone tables with stone stools, benches or other seating arrangements. Adding stone tables to your outdoor seating arrangements adds another layer of hospitality for both yourself and any of your guests or family. If you use an outdoor kitchen or tend to cook outside a lot, adding countertops can be another great option to add to your outdoor area.

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Stone Walls

Constructing stone walls may be a more advanced project, but still well within the “DIY project” limits. Stone walls can be a great way of adding new design elements to your home, segregating certain areas of your home, or adding privacy in your neighborhood while still being stylish about it.

Regardless of what kind of DIY project you want to take on when using stone, we can help help you out! We’re happy to answer any questions you have and can supply you with the necessary ingredients and resources for completing your stone DIY project. Contact us today at Cloudstone and we’ll help get you started!

Build A Wall Easily with Cloud Stone!

DIY Construction work can really be intimidating. Expensive contractors who are often unreliable and charge you way more than you are prepared to pay. Not only that, but the end result can often be disappointing.

With Cloud Stone, building your wall has never been so fun! Why spend money on contractors and expensive tools when you're able to build it yourself just the way you want? It is not only easier and cost-effective, but it also helps to skyrocket our self-esteem.

We present to you the Cloud Stone concrete, a revolutionary patent-pending product that can benefit both your household and pockets. Cloud Stone is an ultra-lightweight user-friendly stone that is really easy to install and maintain. As a result, it enables a much lighter structure weight. We do not need no previous experience whatsoever to install this product. Special tools become a thing of the past.

It can be glued to almost any rigid surface without adding mortar. This eco-friendly type of stone consists of more than 50% recycled material and is GREEN and LEED certified. Tests have shown us that the use of recycled, ultra-lightweight aggregate Cloud Stone concrete product provides significant potential for net carbon reduction in the environment. It is a win-win!

Cloud Stone is able to provide

 Improved Freeze-Thaw Resistance

 Increased Flexural Strength

 Tailored Compressive Strength

 Improved Crack Resistance

 Improved Thermal Resistance

 Decreased Permeability

Why Choose Cloud Stone Concrete Product Mix

So if you still wonder what makes this particular type of stone so special, it's the innovative and quality manufacturing behind it. We did extensive research and testing to see what works. Our product consists of approximate 50% expanded polystyrene based inner core and 50% proprietary, non-toxic, encapsulating outer shell and it's crafted entirely out of real stone. You'll be astounded of how lightweight and dense at the same time this stone is. You can choose between a wide range of ergonomic shapes and colors to find the one that meets your unique needs. Cloud Stone is a viable, high-standard building product that comes at an affordable price.

You will receive it packed in easy to carry, recyclable handy packs.

Order Cloud Stone concrete product and we guarantee that it's going to save you from a plethora of unnecessary expenses and procedures. Our product is covered by a 25-year limited warranty for added peace of mind. Call our friendly experts today!