The addition's stone corner in 2021, running to the original stone wall on the right with snow on the slate roof above
Case File 351

Staining Stone to Match a Peoria Home Addition

Homeowners were expanding this house and the stone it was built from was no longer available. A pattern close in size went up on the addition and was stained a range of colors to match the existing walls. It was photographed again fifteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 351
Structure Private home, stone addition
Location Peoria, Indiana
Stained 2006
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 15 years, Gold level

2006

  1. The new addition in 2006, a pale cream stone gable over a French door bay, standing on bare graded dirt beside the older wing Before, 2006 View this photo larger
  2. The addition's outside corner in 2006, pale cream stone above a copper roofed bay window, with the darker original stone showing at the right edge Before, 2006 View this photo larger
  3. The addition wall in 2006, pale cream stone running past a copper roofed bay window and a downspout Before, 2006 View this photo larger
  4. An inside corner in 2006 where the addition's pale cream stone meets the original grey brown stone on the far side of a downspout Before, 2006 View this photo larger
  5. The same inside corner during the work in 2006, single stones carried into range one at a time against the untreated pale stone above them During, 2006 View this photo larger
  6. An applicator on an extension ladder in a Masonry Cosmetics shirt, working stain into the upper stone by hand During, 2006 View this photo larger
  7. The same wall in 2006 after staining, the stone around the bay window reading brown and grey across the whole elevation After, 2006 View this photo larger
  8. The addition's outside corner in 2006 after staining, its stone carried to the same range as the original wall beyond the downspout After, 2006 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The stone the house was built from was out of production. The customer found a pattern close in size to the existing stone, which settled the coursing and left the color open. The seam between old wall and new runs down an inside corner beside a downspout, where nothing hides it.

What was done

Mineral stain, worked stone by stone rather than one flat color across the wall. The phrase in the file is stained the stone a range of colors to closely match the existing home. A test area went in first, at that same inside corner.

2021, fifteen years on

  1. The addition's stone corner in 2021, running past a tall leaded window to the original wall and its shuttered sash on the right, snow on the slate above 2021 View this photo larger
  2. The gable and French doors in 2021, the addition's stone in the same range as the wing beside it, with a table and chairs on a snow covered terrace 15 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The courtyard side in 2021, stone on the addition and on the older wing reading as one range across an inside corner, snow on the ground 2021 View this photo larger

What fifteen years prove

The 2021 frames show the addition and the original house reading as one range in flat winter light. On the certification scale fifteen years is Gold. As of 2026 the work is twenty years old, and the 2021 certification is the most recent record on it.

The signed file

Every certified job gets the same form, signed on the day someone goes back to the building. This is the one for case 351, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 351, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Stone, Peoria (2006)
Level
Gold. The scale runs Bronze at seven to nine years, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
Hired by
The homeowner
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Background
"Homeowners were expanding their home, and the stone needed for the addition was no longer available"
Actions taken
"We stained the stone a range of colors to closely match the existing home"
Detail of events
"The customer found a stone pattern that was close in size to the existing stone, and we were called in to do the rest. 15 years later and the customer is still thrilled with the results!"
Address
Release permission required
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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