8 Natural Stone Designs for External Wall of Your Home

1. 8+ Natural Stone Designs for External Wall of Your Home

2. Introduction • In ancient days, stones were prime construction material and used freely in each space design in your homes and workplaces. Today, we have better and economic choices, but the original charm and benefits of natural stones are unforgettable. Therefore, we used to opt stones for our most of exterior applications while compromise in interior design with stone veneers, which are thin slices of stones and satisfy us at some extents.

3. 1. Edged Path Retaining Wall • Retaining wall adjoining to path provides an opportunity to be artistic. How? Natural stones have their colors, textures, and patterns. You can use different kinds of stones in different sizes and shapes to create artistic walls.

4. 2. Carousel Planter Retaining Wall • The crescent-shaped retaining wall could act as carousel encircling along the wall. Top of the land within encircling stone walls act as planter even for shrubs, and the flat top of the walls act as delimiters in the overall design.

5. 3. Cut Stone Congruent Mosaic Retaining Wall • Stones are in the congruent shapes and create a mosaic effect when placed in a set symmetry. The stacked stone wall along the path acts as a boundary for your landscape as well as provide stepping stone path a theme matching with path design and stones used in it.

6. 4. Wrought Iron Fence on Boundary Wall • Stone is a great material for structural purposes, and the foundation is the most applicable area for it in the construction. You can lay foundation wall with stacked stones but can use the wrought iron fence on the top of it.

7. 5.  Retaining Wall to Line Stone Stairs • When your façade is up from the landscape and line up the stair steps in a classic manner, the image gives an excellent idea for it. Cut, textured, and rustic color of stones used in retaining wall for the planters and pillars/posts create soothing ambiance before your guests take the entry in it.

8. 6. Garden Patio Retaining Wall • Uplifted patios need foundation cum retaining walls around its periphery. Natural stones are superior candidates when you use solid/whole blocks of stones for the entire wall construction, including the top coping layer. Load bearing stones are ideal and give stacking stone appearance. 

9. 7. Retaining Wall as a Thick Barrier in Landscape Design • When we are designing a landscape in hilly areas with highly uneven and sloppy surfaces, heavy stones in a thick retaining wall provide a great barrier for land mass. • Stacked stone cubes, right from foundation to top can erect a sturdy and permeable barrier for the upside land mass.

10. 8. Multi-Tiered Hill Side Façade Design Retaining Wall • The stunning scenario is of a hillside home. It seems designed almost with stones in all exterior and interior applications. The design of façade demands a long stairway, and side planters with retaining walls beautify it further.

11. 9. Multi-Tiered Landscape Retaining Wall • Here, the designer has leveraged sloppy landscape and hilly surrounding of the building beautifully by providing customize planters. Different symmetrical shapes of stones like rectangles and squares create a mixed grid on vertical space of the retaining walls.

12. 10. Multi-Tiered Planter Retaining Wall • Multiple levels of planting is a great idea when you have ample scope to design a hilly landscape to apply stones in the retaining walls. Symmetrical rectangles of stones or veneers can create a vertical grid design on the wall.

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