Stone Accents

Here is a great example of mixing brick, stone and hardie board. The one thing to remember about using stone accents is to make sure the front of the home is balanced. If you add stone to the right front side of your home, make sure you add the stone to the left front side as well. This is called a bump out. The builder did an excellent job by adding the corners, this helps to give the full stone effect. Also, when the stone is not touching the ground it helps to have the stone sitting on another solid product, like brick. If the stone was sitting over top of another product, siding or alike, your mind will tell you," something is not right here, what is it????" When designing the outside of your home, use your front profile view from your plans and shade in the area that you plan to stone and see if the drawing feels balanced. You could also do the back and sides if you plan on stoning those areas as well.