Exterior Stone Placement Ideas Needed

11 years ago

I am trying to decide where to place stone on our lake home.

The 1st picture is the front of
the house. The front porch has yet to be built, but it will be a gable roofed structure supported by large cedar beams. You can see the concrete toward the center where it will be built. The little door on the side of the house is the access to the firewood room. The garage is to the right of the front porch and it has the same roof line. We are planning to put stone on the chimney.

The 2nd picture is the side of the house that faces the ravine.

The 3rd
picture is the side of the house that faces the water. The big tower structure is my
husband's lighthouse design. As of "today", we have planned to place stone from the base of the lighthouse to the top.

I want the stone placement to look purposeful and natural. I
love the stone variety that I have selected and would like to use as
much of it as I can. Any suggestions?

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Charles Ross Homes
11 years ago
Your home is lovely. I suggest you have your designer/architect produce a couple of alternative elevations for you to consider. If your plans were produced with CAD, it's pretty straightforward to generate various alternatives. If the plans were manually drafted, you can have them make overlays that you can place on the plans to help you evaluate alternatives.

Best wishes for a successful project.
Architectrunnerguy
11 years ago
Wait a minute, when you say "The big tower structure is my husband's lighthouse design. As of "today", we have planned to place stone from the base of the lighthouse to the top." , does that include the part above the eave line?
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11 years ago

I'd be a helluva lot more concerned with flashing details than frou frou. Besides, there doesn't seem to be a poured brick ledge foundation to support stone?
murffy
Original Author
11 years ago
Thank you. I am not sure what frou frou is, but I can tell you that the structural engineer designed the house for supporting the weight of real stone; not lick and stick. And the roof has the structural integrity to support a tile roof, which we do not plan to do. My husband is a civil engineer and I do not doubt for a minute any of the engineering design work. If anything, we are over-engineered!
But you are correct, when this picture was taken the roof flashing was not complete.
And yes, stone work is being done on the top portion of the lighthouse and continuing down to the ground level.
I still would like some help with the stone placement.