Sixteen feet of retaining wall out of Guinea Ridge wallstone, which is basically yet another variation on the Heritage Valley, Belfast Heritage, Norumbega strain. It comes off of Guinea Ridge out in Burketville and is sold by the Pease family, who are probably the hardest working and most honest people I have ever dealt with. (Also can be found at Viking Hardscapes on Rt. 90.) I like it because it seems to have a good variety of thicknesses and we wanted to have some thinner ones for this smaller wall, so as to still have some movement across the face. If you build an eighteen-inch tall wall out of six-inch thick stones, you basically end up with a wall three rocks high, and it just doesn't look very exciting. This, on the other hand, this is exciting.
Look at the colors, too. Actually, the rock is still pretty dirty from being in the ground and will weather well over time, decreasing the browns and bringing out the blues and greens.
We even ripped out a few bricks that were under the fireplace, and replaced them with wallstone, which really integrated the whole structure and brought everything together.
We did this job for Michael Geer of Celebration Works
Carpentry (236-0030) and a customer of his from my home state of
Tennessee. Yee-haw! She was really nice and Michael is a pleasure to
work with. He's easy-going, with a boat-builder's eye to detail and a
classic love of craftsmanship, and we are looking forward to working with
him in the future.
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