Stone Furniture
No more plastic! Or vinyl, or PVC!
Stone Couch at Chanticleer Gardens, Wayne, Pennsylvania
Image by Carolyn's Shade Gardens, Bryn Mawr, PA.
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Stone chair at Chanticleer Gardens, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Image by Carolyn's Shade Gardens, Bryn Mawr, PA.
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Stone seating group at Chanticleer Gardens, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Image by Carolyn's Shade Gardens, Bryn Mawr, PA.
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Stone Sofa
By Grace Design Associates
gracedesignassociates.com
A stone wall integrated into the back of a stone bench forms a stone couch. Tigard, Oregon. www.paradiserestored.com
Stone bench and firepit.
www.chipperhatter.com
Outdoor firepit with bench surround.
www.housebeautiful.com
Stone couch at Ohme Garden, Wenatchee, Washington.
Handmade by one couple. hazelbloom.typepad.com
Stone chair at Lake Toxaway Lodge, North Carolina.
Via: www.vrbo.com
Stone Chair. Aquafina Gardens International, Michigan. They will make any stone object you desire. www.aguafina.com
Stone couch and firepit. Cement was used to form the back of the couch and the top layer of its seat. Salvaged wood armrests. Shirley Bovshow of Garden World. photobucket.com
Stone coffee table by Max Lamb.johnsontradinggallery.com
Weedle bench by
Sunny Wieler of Stone Art, Cork, Ireland. www.stoneart.ie
Stream Side Bench by
Sunny Wieler of Stone Art, Cork, Ireland. www.stoneart.ie
Circle of stone benches by Sunny Wieler
of Stone Art, Cork, Ireland. www.stoneart.ie
Stone Bench by Sunny Wieler
of Stone Art, Cork, Ireland. www.stoneart.ie
Stone Bench
at the Condry Cottage, built by M.J. Murphy, Carmel-by-the-Sea. Photo by Linda Hartong. talesfromcarmel.com
Stone Furniture in Ottawa. Note the planter arms.
Image by kshibano.www.flickr.com
Cement planters make wicker sofas look like stone. A Joy Forever, Chelsea Flower Show 2010. A sunken garden designed by Kate Gould and sponsored by garden furniture producers Hartman UK. www.rhs.org.uk
Lightweight stone furniture that will last a few lifetimes. Unfortunately it looks like the company that makes this furniture may be out of business. www.featherlyte.com
Stone chaise lounges by Featherlyte. Featherlyte Furniture, Knoxville, TN. www.featherlyte.com
Cement couch in Columbus, Ohio. Image by Friscocali. www.flickr.com
Make your own outdoor sofa by stacking stones. This outdoor sofa was created by the Featherlyte Outdoor Furniture Company of Knoxville, TN from false stone siding. Via: www.fauxpanels.com
Aquafina Gardens International, Michigan.
www.aguafina.com
Stone VW built in 1976 by a Cornell art class in Ithaca, NY. www.landscapejuicenetwork.com
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The earth-house uses the ground as an insulating blanket that efficiently protects it from temperature extremes, wind, rain and extreme weather events.
Underground homes with a modern bent. A large thermal mass stabilizes inside temperatures, giving you free heat in the winter, free cooling in the summer.
For those in northern, high altitude or windy climates who wish to grow their food year round. Take advantage of the insulating properties of the Earth.
Ingenious ways to stack firewood.
The rocket mass heater works on similar properties as a masonry heater. A fast, high heat and oxygen-fed fire burn up the volatile gases and particulates, leaving very little pollution, and turn almost every ounce of wood fuel into energy.
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Heat, not pollution. The cleanest burning wood stoves have been around for centuries, yet have taken a backseat to metal wood stoves and other polluting energy sources for far too long. Time for a revival!
If you live in a cool climate, you might as well investigate adding a masonry heater along side your pizza oven. Or at least understanding them so that you might take advantage of exhaust heat.
Although lots of mass and beautiful, most heat goes straight up the flue. Build a conventional fireplace for beauty alone, build a masonry fireplace for heat.
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Call them bug condos, insect hotels, insect habitats, wildlife stacks, insect boxes, insect houses, insect walls, wild bee walls, insect accommodation, wild bee houses, solitary bee walls or wild bienenhaus. Wildlife habitat is rapidly disappearing. Building beneficial insects a special habitat will help your garden and the bugs.
Examples of pure cob and adobe, and refractory castable cement over bricks.
Recycle some old bricks...into an oven.
Build an outdoor oven with local stone and DIY skills for a few hundred dollars. Or, buy an oven kit and have it veneered for a few thousand.
Willow cuttings called 'withies' easily root in either water or moist soil. Plant in late winter and come July you'll have a privacy screen.
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