Stoops
/ Entryways
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Granite
Entry
features three types of granite random
flagging in mortar, with rounded risers
and burnished outcropping. We
installed all new footings for this
stoop.
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A New
Look
The owner
got tied of mowing the little hill along
the city sidewalk and also wanted to
"jazz-up" the look of the
walk to the front door.
The steps are
made of MN Dolomite Glacier buff random
flagging in mortar. The wall
is made of 8" Chilton wall stone
with minimum reveal mortar. (looks
like dry stack)
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CLOSE-UP
(of stoop)
The front steps
feature a rounded design riser set
with a straight riser band across
the door front. The sidewalk
flares to meet the wider stoop.
The combination works very well and
the stone color is picked up on the
old accent Dolomite bed face around
the front door.
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BELDEN
FACE BRICK WITH NY BLUESTONE CAPS
The crew is working
on the front entryway. Some
of the bluestone caps have been set
on the lower two risers.
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THE FINISHED
PRODUCT
If I can find
the before picture. I will post
it with these two. This is a
huge improvement to the first impression
of the house. The face brick
colors are picked up in the door and
windows. The NY bluestone has
a unique beauty of it's own, it lends
itself well in many applications.
We installed a new concrete slab in
front of the new stoop.
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Curb
Appeal!
Serious
curb appeal was added to this home
in St. Louis Park when we installed
this new brick and stone stoop.
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NEW FRT.
STOOP
This stoop was
designed with Black Shale face brick
on the risers and buttress.
The tread stone and the matching caps
are MN dolomite, rock faced edges
on the buttress caps and smooth cut
on the riser edges. Sorry about
the obscured view, but by the time
I returned to take the photo the owner
had really went wild with the plants.
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Completely
New Stoop...
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...while maintaining the
look of a traditional Minneapolis
stoop, the way the did them
in the early 1900's
A
complete removal and rebuild
of a brick, stone and
paver stoop. Brick type:
Belden Vertical Black
Shale. Custom order 3",
rock faced, stone caps
on buttresses: Five, 2
1/4" Rock Faced Indiana
Limestone matching tread
stones. Landing at the
door: Town and Country
pavers in mortar.
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We
Did All The Concrete And Masonry Here!
We
removed all the old concrete work
(there used to be tall concrete walls
around the step layout with so many
vines you could not see much of the
house), installed new footings, then
all new concrete work including: steps,
runners, sidewalk, stoop, patio, pillars
caps, matching address stone.
If we only had a before picture.
This job was done before the days
when we took pictures of everything.
After
we finished the work, the owner said
he drove by his house
and was a long way down the block
before he realized this was
his house that's how much it was improved!
(Not a true story, but it would have
made a good one though)
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Co-owners
Ralph
and Dave Dvorak
Co-owners Ralph
and Dave Dvorak are shown installing
the brick and mortar pillars. Dave
is installing a half pillar against
the house, which gives a cool effect.
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Matching
address and
cap stones look great!
We cap-off the
pillars with smooth face Indiana Limestone
and a matching Indiana Limestone address
stone.
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Where
No Porch Existed Before!
This older St.
Paul house had the room for an old
style porch with
fancy stonework, pillars and steps,
but nothing was there but an
8x12' dirt area with some rickety
old wooden steps up to the front door.
This one is definitely worth the
drive to see.
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We
installed full frost footings, new random
sidewalk steppers in mortar leading
up to the new all natural stone steps,
pillars and walls. We topped it off
with a new exposed aggregate sidewalk
from the front to the back. Job is located
in St. Paul. |
