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The 5 best ways to use stone cladding in your home

8/11/2021

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5 ways you can add stone cladding to your interior spaces...

As the UK’s preferred natural stone cladding company, we at Norstone have seen our stacked stone used in a myriad of ways, and we are always delighted to see the versatile and stylish results.
 
We have seen great exposure of our stone cladding on external projects, from commercial building façades to luxury home architecture and recognisable sites such as hotels, retail centres and golf courses.
 
The beauty of our high-quality cladding ranges is that they are perfectly suited for internal use as well, and we have been amazed over the years by the huge array of designs and finishes that our clients have achieved. If you want to check out some stunning examples, visit our project gallery.
 
In this article we’re going to run through the most common and popular ways that we see stone cladding used in homes across the UK. As the winter draws in, we’re all thinking about being indoors, cosy and enjoying our interior spaces, so why not check out these stone cladding applications and get inspired!

Fireplaces

Perhaps the most iconic of stone cladding fitouts is to a fireplace or chimney stack. As a commanding area in the home, fireplaces attract the eye. It’s for that reason then that we see our stone cladding used to amazing effect.
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Fireplace surrounds and chimney breasts are among the most popular uses of Norstone - from cool, modern white to minimalist Charcoal to the more traditional Ochre Blend stone cladding. In recent times, we have seen a big increase in the trend for ebony basalt which give a very high-end look and our exclusive lava stone in platinum and graphite finishes, these will deliver a showstopping look that will become an instant talking point.

Make the fireplace the true focal point of your room with just a few square metres of Norstone natural stone cladding panels.

Feature Walls

A staple of interior design, the feature wall has evolved over the decades from paint, to wallpaper, to material textures and then, the cycle begins again.  Perhaps one of the most important advancement in feature walls in the last decade or so is stacked stone, or stone cladding panels. These thin natural stone veneers allow you to apply a genuine stone finish to any wall, but the slim size and advanced fixing methodology means you don’t have problems with massive weight or affixing issues.

Creative use of Norstone's real stacked stone panels for stone feature walls can lift a room or a building and transform it into something special for a relatively small cost. Sympathetic lighting can highlight the texture of the stone and make it a talking point. Check out this stunning feature wall made with our unique Planc™ cladding system:
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Norstone stone cladding gives a 100% authentic, real stone finish with a beautiful range of colours and hues, all from responsibly sourced natural stone quarries - coupled with our long-life guarantees and handy finger joint corners, it's a winning combination.

Bathrooms

The new normal is for our bathrooms to be a haven, a retreat, a place for pampering and to re-invigorate ourselves. Enter stone cladding! It can be used sparingly as a feature or extensively to fully cover your bathroom, and it will bring style, elegance, and luxury to a previously overlooked and often outdated part of your property. Please note, we don’t recommend installation of natural stone cladding in the immediate wet areas of the bathroom…this is due to maintenance and cleaning.

Whether it’s the brilliant natural white, or the natural stone qualities of the charcoal rock panel, the three dimensional randomly stacked stone wall inevitably creates a conversation piece. For warmth and a snug feel, the beauty of Ochre Blend cladding cannot be underestimated.
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Pro tip: for a highly contemporary look, use charcoal stone cladding panels as a stunning contrast to white and chrome.

Kitchens

Most properties today are rated quite heavily on the kitchen – its no exaggeration to say that a poorly designed kitchen with a ‘bad look’ will turn off potential buyers, whereas a stunning highly designed kitchen space will add thousands in value to your home.

With the rise of open plan spaces, we often see the kitchen, dining and living spaces blending together and this is where stone cladding can really add huge impact in terms of its placement, and the way it can be used to tie the different areas together.
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The subtle range of Norstone’s distinctive natural stone cladding (charcoal, ochre blend, sahara, white, ivory, deep grey, silver grey, platinum, graphite) will work with any kitchen’s colour scheme and finish - whether lacquer, matt or gloss. Whether a gentle blend or a bold, stunning contrast - either will produce a superb effect and make an already magnificent kitchen even more striking. Norstone’s stone cladding panels look equally at home in both classic traditional and ultra-modern kitchens.
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Already a world leader and a byword for quality and cutting-edge design, Siematic kitchens now feature Norstone’s equally innovative natural stacked stone cladding panels as a design option at the planning stage. Siematic have begun to roll out Norstone to all their distributors and will soon be available to view at their stores throughout the UK.
 
Our charcoal rock panels used as a surround to a panel of appliances on a white wall gives a stunning effect - people will look, but they have to touch as well. Our natural stone veneers are incredibly tactile – you must stroke them!

Columns

Whilst not a common feature in many homes, if you do have a column, pillar, or stack in your property, you would be amazed at how easy it is to completely alter its appearance with a stone cladding wrap.

Our precision cut stone cladding corner units are quick and easy to fit and complete the impression of a very substantial natural stone wall. By applying them to columns or pillars, we can get a fantastic look in a short timeframe and with an affordable price tag.
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Used extensively externally, we can also apply corners and panelling to internal columns - every Norstone corner section is handmade after being precision cut. No longer do installers have to mitre the edges which in the past increased wastage and time, which in turn increased costs. Our renowned interlocking finger joints are unique and another reason why Norstone is the undisputed premium brand in the market.
 

Bonus: Curved Walls

Finally, a last use for stone cladding that looks really incredible… Using natural stone cladding on radius walls and curves.

Do you have a home with curved walls or round rooms? Radius walls make a very interesting and distinctive design element and create a distinctive sculptural statement. Let your imagination run free to create sensational feature walls that will enhance your indoor or outdoor living spaces.
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The rugged texture of the 3-dimensional stone helps to delineate the curvature of the wall to create a very edgy and impressive design. Curved or radius walls can be free-standing or part of an existing structure, the choice is yours.

So, there you have it, the 5 most popular uses for natural stone cladding in the home. As market leaders, we have seen our range used extensively across all these scenarios with some amazing results - please browse our projects gallery to see some prime examples.

If you are inspired and want to bring some of this amazing design to your home, then please contact us – we have the experience and network of guarantee backed installers to give you the stone cladding project of your dreams.
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PLANC™: Streamlined Natural Stone Cladding with creative freedom

15/4/2020

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Stone Cladding expertise acquired through experience

Norstone have been a leading manufacturer and retailer of quality natural stone veneer cladding systems since 2003. Our market-leading panels, along with finger jointed corner systems have proven to be an incredibly popular choice for both homeowners, architects and civil / commercial projects alike.

As the years have passed, so has our range evolved. From our original, classic Rock Panels™, to our super sleek, honed Aksent™ panels, we have innovated within the stone cladding marketplace time and time again. Recently, across our major retail markets (Australia, USA, UK) we have introduced with great reception new materials and finishes, of which the beautiful natural Lava Stone has proven to be a show-stopping, conversation starter whenever it has been used.

Unique stone cladding designs with PLANC™

So, what else could we develop to fulfil our client’s requirements and exceed expectations? Well, we answered the call of more creative freedom with the introduction of PLANC™, our loose stone plank system. Available in highly desirable shades of monochrome from silver quartz to deepest black ebony basalt, PLANC™ is also a perfect canvas for our hugely popular Lava Stone finishes, available in Platinum and Graphite colourways. Lava stone, which is formed from molten lava that cools slowly, has a truly unique surface texture with interesting bubbling,  pitting and colour textures.

The true beauty for those seeking a unique, signature look is the complete flexibility the PLANC™ system provides; you can easily pick and choose individual plank strips and combine them as needed. The large format PLANC™ stone rows are all uniformly sized (with two narrow and one wide strip per set: 60mm/80mm/140mm x 800mm long), allowing designers to mix and match the colours and finishes and create coherent, stylish patterns should they wish to. We have seen graduated strips, vertical bands, symmetrical, asymmetrical or staggered patterns from creative designers & architects

We have seen some stunning installations of PLANC™, from modernist villas and smart LA residences, to commercial feature walls, fireplace surrounds or even kitchen backsplashes.

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PLANC™ Cladding: precision engineered for streamlined install

Norstone PLANC™ large format stone cladding strips are made from 100% natural stone, meticulously sourced from hand-picked quarries and fabricated at our factory in Vietnam to the highest standards for the most demanding markets around the globe. PLANC™ cladding can be used on both internal and external projects, making it suitable for wet areas and also freeze/thaw applications.

We have designed and manufactured PLANC™ to be a highly calibrated system, best set in a dry fit marble style installation without grout joints over flat vertical surfaces. It can also be laid in vertical arrangements, and is also suitable for a more standard, grout joint look where desired. PLANC™ is also designed to allow for easy corner installations, for more information please read about PLANC™ corners.

With lava stone finishes in particular, it is advisable to consider pre-sealing PLANC™ stone strips prior to installation as this will greatly reduce the amount of maintenance and care of the stone cladding over its lifetime – additionally it makes cleaning  off installation mess such as excess adhesive a much more straightforward process. We recommend that PLANC™ cladding strips should be sealed with a penetrating water-based sealer, we have a choice of 3 sealants….Rapid Drying Stone Impregnator, Lavaseal and Norseal H20 for our Norstone Range. We will advise which one to use upon ordering. Please remember, that small application tests should be conducted before application, to determine its suitability.

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What are the best stone cladding applications for PLANC™?

Norstone PLANC™ stone veneer loose strip system is ideal for:
  • Interior or Exterior projects looking to achieve a large format look with a long linear pattern.
  • Residential Applications, including entryways, exteriors, fireplaces, kitchen and bath backsplashes, pools and waterfalls.
  • Commercial Applications, including hospitality, medical, and commercial office build outs, retrofits, and signage.

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What would you create with PLANC™ stone cladding strips?

The long linear format of Norstone’s PLANC™ system allows the designer to apply texture, pattern and colours to walls in ways only dreamt of before. PLANC™ is not restricted by the ubiquitous brick bond pattern used for fixing stacked stone panels, instead allowing the designer and contractor to collaborate on layouts that will be unique and stunning in appearance – we can’t wait to see what you will do with PLANC™ on your project.
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Stunning Modern Build features Norstone's XLS Charcoal Rock Panel™ Cladding

13/11/2019

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A wonderful modern private home, built with a perfectly restrained palette of darks, greys and charcoal. Norstone XLS Rock Panel cladding features extensively, inside and out. The photo gallery demonstrates the harmonious combinations of charcoal cladding, metal panel cladding and more streamlined tiled cladding. Combined together they build a strong look of contrasting textures, all united by the monochromatic colour scheme.

Applied to the outer walls, in particular around the main entrance, the highly practical cladding panels and corner units allowed the architects to achieve statuesque column styling with ease. Internally, the XLS charcoal makes a stunning statement when combined with the ultra modern floating glass staircase - it is also used in the swimming pool area, casting intriguing reflections on the water surface and grounding the space well.

Designed by Helyer Davies Architects, this stunning contemporary build is well worth exploring:

https://hdarchitects.co.uk/projects/harbour-house-chichester-harbour/
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Norstone's new Planc™ stone cladding

13/7/2018

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Large-scale modular natural stone cladding

After our bespoke lava stone installation in the USA received rave reviews, we decided to develop a new product utilising lava stone and also using this large-scale format to include the ever popular basalt and quartzite materials used in Norstone’s other stone cladding ranges.

A minor departure from our renowned modular panels, the large format Planc™ still posseses all the benefits associated wiith Norstone’s product range - rapid, seamless installation of the highest quality, precision-cut natural stone with the warranty options Norstone has become famous for.

Packaged in sets of three (800 x 60/80/140mm), this versatile product can be laid however you prefer - staggered, symmetrical, asymmetrical or even whichever random design you decide upon. Be creative! We can also accommodate bespoke sizes from 150-1000mm wide to 1500mm long - please email us for more details.

The style is uncompromisingly modern and the range encompasses a silver grey quartzite to an ebony basalt. Surfaces range from naturally pitted lava stone to silky smooth basalt with degrees of honed finishes inbetween. Whether monochrome or a blend of several colours and finishes, our Planc™ range produces stunning results.
For further information please phone or email us.

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New Premises for Norstone Dealer

12/6/2018

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Arlington Interiors has recently opened their beautifully converted former derelict Spinning shed at Sunny Bank Mills.

Established in 2004, by three friends and colleagues Nick Tindall, Richard Bates and Ben Russell and joined five years ago by designer Hayley Reid, Arlington Interiors are award winning  designers of stunning Kitchens and bedrooms and have a reputation for excellence much further afield than their native Yorkshire.
 
The new showroom has a inspiring varied choice of design, with NORSTONE charcoal Slim stone cladding on display prominently in one of their kitchen designs.
 
We at Norstone congratulate them and wish them every success with this new endeavour.
 
Visit them and inspect the Norstone Charcoal Slim stone cladding system.

Arlington Interiors
4 The Spinning,
Sunny Bank Mills
Farsley
LS28 5UJ

www.arlington-interiors.co.uk
0113 255 5566
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The effects of light on natural stone cladding 

7/4/2015

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Natural Stone CladdingLighting on Natural Stone
As with all natural stone products the colours of natural stone cladding and stone veneers may vary from piece to piece.  It's important to know that the colour of the natural stone cladding and stone veneer may also appear to be different as a result of the natural and artificial lighting conditions and depending on where the stone is installed.

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Modern and Fresh

17/3/2015

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Ochre Blend Stone Cladding
Norstone's natural stone cladding has the unique ability to brighten up those previously forgotten areas. First impressions are very important and, as the saying goes, you only get one chance! Norstone's rock panels can create a sense of expectation and excitement as you move further into the building. 

Our subtle natural stone colours create a softness and luxury that complement soft furnishings and work in harmony with any colour scheme whether rustic, modern minimalist or anything in-between! 

A must for any contemporary interior design project.

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