We chose this beautiful blue stone for our outside patios and decks.

We also wanted to carry the stone to the interior of the house in a few places – the sun porch (to make it feel almost like an outdoor space), the mud room (to be able to withstand the high traffic and inevitable muddy shoes), and the threshold going out the back door.

We made it clear to both our stone supplier and our tile & stone sub-contractor that we needed some of the stone to be thinner so that we could use it indoors, where it had to match levels with wood floor and carpet.

Somewhere along the line, the stone quarry said they could not supply it as thin as we needed because they were afraid it would break during shipping.  Our stone and tile sub-contractor said, “no problem, we’ll cut it down ourselves.”  After month of telling us that it was almost done, it turns out they hadn’t cut any of it down at all, and when they tried, they couldn’t do it.

We instead had to employ the same guys that did a lot of our sandstone work, like the fireplace mantle and hearth, to cut the stone down for the thinner application.

It was expensive, but we got it done.  Here are the first two applications of the thinner stone.  The sliding door threshold going out to the backyard.

The patio beyond the threshold will also be done in the blue stone.  Here out our sun porch.

We’ve installed day beds on both sides of the sun room for kids sleepovers and what not.