Stone skirting accents a variety of mobile-home landscapes.
Stone skirting is very popular for mobile homes and comes in a variety of styles to reflect the personality of the homeowners. Usually made from polyurethane, rock skirting is a long-lasting finishing touch. The faux skirting is often made to replicate brick, stone, marble or granite. It is also made to replicate different periods of time or geographic location. Does this Spark an idea?
Random Rock Styles
Styles that use random rock patterns can set an American frontier tone. These styles will make use of stones that are randomly stacked with uneven facades. Random rock styles are especially beautiful in a garden-like landscape that uses nature as its object. The simplicity of random rock styles gives homes a casual down-to-earth feel because the stones sometimes appear to have been stacked almost haphazardly. One of the most popular styles is the light-colored slate stone, which varies in thickness from one to two inches and adds to the random effect by allowing some of the stones to protrude more than others. This is an attractive setting for landscapes that make use of shrubbery.
River Rock Styles
For homes that make use of water fountains, waterwheels or decorative bridges, river-rock skirting is an appropriate choice. River-rock styles vary in the size, color and spacing of rocks. This was a popular style for home foundations on the Mississippi and other rivers, which is why even today the river ambiance is strong when river-rock skirting is used. Other styles that use river rock -- Windsor, Tudor and Oxford among them -- resemble foundations that were popular in England and other western countries. River-rock styles that feature closer-set rocks are more elegant, but this style still allows a landscape to make use of riverlike foliage and d cor.
Stacked Rock Styles
Neatly stacked rocks are used to reflect more stately styles such as those used for castles, palaces or older government buildings in Western Europe. The stacked brick or stone skirting is far smoother than river-rock or random rock styles. Though sometimes ostentatious, the grand effect brought out by the meticulously stacked stones is a very suitable backdrop for a yard that features a large well-shorn lawn with just a few stately trees. This very orderly arrangement is appealing in stones that are as light-colored as those used in old stately castles, but darker stones can be just as appealing. Either way a yard could be too busy to support the imposing air of such an orderly arrangement.
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