Portland Stone: made for bespoke designs
Of all the stone we supply, Portland Stone must be the most famous. It takes a special role this month, as it does every November, when the Cenotaph features in the news as wreaths are laid in...
View ArticleLondon Stone at Futurescape
Futurescape, at Sandown Park, turned out to be even more of a whirl of activity than last year. At one point, people were almost queueing to get onto the stand. It’s just a shame we were too busy to...
View ArticleDesign Tip: Using texture and colour in a large paved area
Large areas of paving can be something of a design challenge. It all depends on proportion. After all, the drive leading up to Blenheim Palace is larger than a lot of people’s plots – house and...
View ArticleMeet some of the staff in our London Showrooms
New Year, New Challenges. And here’s one we posed our staff – those who didn’t manage to scramble out of the office fast enough when they saw us coming. We asked them some very searching questions…...
View ArticleDesign Tip: mixed sized paving for small spaces
It’s an issue with many different opinions. Some say you should use large format paving in small areas because it gives the illusion of space; some say small paving slabs, or even setts, to keep in...
View ArticleThe advantages of GftK joint mortars
What pointing products do you use? We’re betting that it’s sand and cement. You understand their foibles and are pretty reluctant to experiment with anything else, especially when you’re throwing a...
View ArticleTom Howard combines modern and traditional in Porcelain paving
An overgrown garden, tired paving and not enough space and light were the problems to be sorted by London Stone Trade Club member Tom Howard Garden Design and Landscaping in Chelsea recently. Inside...
View ArticleHard Landscaping Trends for 2016
Last month we had some fun asking searching questions of some of the people you meet in our showrooms. What we didn’t report was their answers to “What do you predict will be the next trend in...
View ArticleDesign Tip: how to disguise a straight path in a narrow garden
“I wanted the owner to get to the bottom of the garden without feeling he’d gone down a straight path.” This was the challenge designer Tracy McQue set herself when faced with a long, narrow garden...
View ArticleKota Blue Limestone – great looks, great price
People so often assume that really good-looking natural stone has to be very expensive that we thought we’d feature an old favourite of ours this week: Kota Blue Limestone. The Healing Urban Garden...
View ArticleGraphite Grey Limestone is bang on trend
The world of colour was given a jolt at the end of last year when not one, but two Colours of the Year were announced. In case you’re not up to speed on this obviously important world event, Pantone®,...
View ArticleLondon Stone introduces two new services to make your life easier
It’s all part of our ongoing aim at service excellence, to ensure that you get to work the way you want to and save time on the fiddly parts of the job. London Stone South East London Showroom,...
View ArticleNew products to give you the competitive edge
It’s so important to keep an edge over the competition. Here at London Stone we’ve got off to a running start in 2016 with loads of new products. With our extensive range, you have the latest trends at...
View ArticleWhy London Stone offers more in Porcelain Paving
Easy to use, wide range of colours, low maintenance, high slip-resistance –the advantages of Porcelain Paving are legion. There are loads of reasons why Porcelain is the up-and-coming material. Here...
View ArticleBespoke Porcelain Paving gives you an edge
It’s no good, we just have to talk about it again. The more we work with our new Porcelain Paving (recently laid at all our showrooms), the more we realise its capabilities. These have created a real...
View ArticleHow our Laser Templating service makes your life easier
Have you ever made a costly mistake? I’ll bet we all have at some time cut paving and then realised we’d missed a stage in our calculations or mismeasured a gap. Or provided templates, had the stones...
View ArticleSlab Coke Porcelain Paving adds detail to garden design
Clients like to throw in a challenge, and for Chris Harrington of Harrington Porter, the challenge in designing a small garden in Fulham was to find the outdoor equivalent of existing interior...
View ArticleThe creation of a show garden by Frederic Whyte
The creation of a show garden is a serendipitous process which involves the gathering of a unique constellation of people, and places. Show gardens, of any size, convey messages and tell the stories...
View ArticleLondon Stone – supporting industry at RHS Chelsea 2016
This year RHS Chelsea is a first for London Stone as we supply stone for gardens in every category: Show, Fresh, Artisan, Trade and even the RHS’s own Greening Grey Britain Garden, designed by...
View ArticleThe Bowel Disease UK Garden for Crohn’s Disease
It was never going to be easy making Crohn’s Disease look appealing so when Bowel Disease UK approached us about creating a garden we spent time discussing what this was all about. Andrew Fisher Tomlin...
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