I am in Spartanburg SC and am trying to find Cultured Stone. I need approx. 2000 Sq feet. How do I find this place??? Do you think that they will have that much of one type? I am especially looking for the Country Ledgestone in Owens Corning but have almost given up because I can't afford it. This sounds too good to be true. Are the local builders not taking it because the market is saturated with unsold homes? If I thought that I could get stone at this price, I would be there tomorrow. Please email me any info. that you have. belle_kculbre@yahoo.com Thanks!!!

Sorry to OP for hijacking this thread! Gardenchick! Thank you for your advice. Hadn't thought about the ledgestone on the gables. That might be what is making me think twice about it. We will have 2 gables accented with the stone and also a border around the house. DH and I are trying to compromise on this one. As far as the grout, I was thinking that the type used on Limestone makes a big difference in the look. Can't decide which one I like better because they all are very nice. In addition to going to look at the Cultured Stone, there is an area close by that has a lot of very old stone homes and an old farm nearby that has their old home and barn in stone. I'm going to drive through those neighborhoods and examine their type and style. Hope they don't think I'm some crazy lady! We are in the northeast. Building on 21 acres, with pond and some wooded area, not in a housing development. We are placing the home on top of the property, overlooking farmland, woods and our pond. Started the dig for the driveway and gas well awhile back. I guess our style of home is a mix. I jokingly said on another thread that it was old world meets the mountain or something like that. Inspirations came from lots of searching on the net,(this site included), driving around neighborhoods and new construction, from the different style of those to the style of the HGTV 2006 dream home and just recently added to that eclectic mix, the MidWest Living 2007 Idea house. We also want to make sure our home fits the property, but most importantly our family and our lifestyle, (4 young boys.), and yet something different then what is being built all around us, if that makes sense. DH really wanted to do all brick and stone but the cost for both would make us have to cut other things...some that DH didn't want to lose, and I just can't live without the stone, so we are compromising with shakes/board&batten and stone. We are meeting with hopefully what will become asap "the" builder tomorrow. Wish us luck, cross fingers, send prayers...we need it all!! LOL! We just want to start already--UGH!!

I have no idea what it cost, but we ended up using real stone that is cut thin so it installs the same as the fake stuff...but you can't match the color variation of natural stone with the fake stuff. Also, we were using a lot of the real stone we had on our property in our landscape and wanted it to blend. It does blend really well. Natural thin stone on front gable The rounded walls are full sized natural stone from our property, and the foundation is the natural thin stone. We used the same stone on the inside behind the woodstove. Here is a link that might be useful: Stone from stoneyard.com

Can you get samples of each and post pictures of them together in the sun in your back yard? It's really hard to help because I don't know what your choices look like.