Cobble Stone for your New Stone Fireplace

What is the best style of stone for your fireplace?
There is no perfect answer for this question. The best guidelines are to find something that is considered ever lasting and not too trendy for your own local environment . Look around at your own surrounding area and see what stone is commonly used. If you are up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin you might consider a River Rock, or in the Rocky Mountains something more jagged like a field stone.
Gallery Of Fireplace Pictures

In this blog, we will be focusing on a very popular stone called cobble stone and is very traditional and very everlasting in style.

Do you want a more formal stone fireplace?
The cobble stone fireplace is very traditional and you can select colors from the more neutral colors to something a little more drama and color which looks outstanding in a big or small room. Cobble stone fireplaces have a slightly softer look to them. The stones are typically larger than the ledge stone fireplaces and also they have mortar joints between the stones.

Cobble Stone Fireplace,
Nice shape and size with mortar joint
Has an everlasting quality.


Cobble Stone Pictures

Do You Want Formal with a little drama?
The cobble stack stone is a 50-50 blend of the cobble stone and our dry stack style stone (ledgestone) The larger shapes of the cobble stone with their softer edges and smoother texture and the sharper, more linear shape of the dry stack with its deep relief provide that little extra drama that you might desire. The cobble stack look can easily work in a living room, family room or bedroom.

Cobble Stack Stone
A blend with a little drama!

Close up pictures of stone styles

Do You Want Formal with a little rustic?


Our cobble field is a wonderful blend for those homes with taller fireplaces or homes that have a wooded or lake type setting. The selection of stone looks like you picked up the fieldstone pieces on your own property. The fieldstone pieces also help draw the eye upward creating a more dramatic view. We use a blend of 80% of our cobble stone and 20% of our field stone. The placement of the field stone is part art and is what creates a dramatic stone fireplace when completed.

Cobble Field

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North Star Stone, Inc.

1921 Industrial Dr.

Libertyville, IL 60048

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847-996-6850