Just behind our wood-fired oven we crafted a somewhat whimsical water feature. It adds a nice, soothing sight and sound to our backyard escape.
We’ve just completed another fireplace project for a gorgeous timber frame house going up here in the Duluth, MN area. It includes a stacked stone base for craftsman style posts that bookend the home’s front steps.
Last Summer we built our own wood-fired baking oven in the back yard. As you can see the hard-scaping is on the back burner, so to speak, while we focus on customer projects and gardening; it’s a short growing season here in Duluth, MN! However, we are using the oven and will provide some updates soon and maybe even pictures of the good stuff we pull out of it.
The oven unit is a LePanyol 83. We install Le Panyol ovens for restaurants, so we know they’re preferred by professional chefs and, of course, we know these ovens inside and out.
Speaking of the outside, the stone surround is set with that beautiful Saratoga Granite Blend that I’ve been talking about in recent posts—with the oven trimmed out in 4-inch charcoal grey stock granite.
For more examples, check out our Wood-Fired Ovens section.
Here’s our latest fireplace — another custom stonework project featuring Saratoga Blend stone — this time with Diopside Green Stone for the hearth and a wood mantle. Compare this to our March 26 blog post about a fireplace using the same Saratoga Blend stone but with black granite hearth and mantle.
The Saratoga Blend is a 50/50 blend of American Granite and Corinthian Granite creating a nice mix of textures and colors, including grays, blues, greens and golds. We added further interest with equal portions of 4 different shapes: ashlar, ledge stone, mosaic and roughly squared / roughly rectangular.
Custom fireplace featuring Saratoga Blend stone
Just completed this stone fireplace using Eagle Ridge Ledgestone with Kasota Limestone hearth and mantle.
Stone fireplace featuring Ledgestone plus a Limestone hearth and mantle