Tumble House Blog
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We share information about ourselves, our products, designs and inspirations to create the perfect project using granite stone. Read about our own projects and designs, how our customers have used our granite, and find information, images and videos of new and bespoke products that we have available to purchase.
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Portuguese Granite Paving Slabs
Granite Paving Slabs - We generally stock three sizes of slabs although other sizes are available to order.
Decorative Granite Spheres
Move over birdbaths and stepping stones – there's a new heavyweight contender in the world of landscape design; the honed granite sphere.
Not Your Average Use Of Cobblestone
Granite setts do not just have to be used in the traditional way as a form of paving. Read about, and view some images of a stone tree we built at our home here in the Lake District.
Stunning Granite Sett Pathways
Picture a cottage garden with a meandering pathway, flanked on both sides with a herbaceous border. Granite setts are the ideal material for this type of feature.
Patios Using Granite Setts
Create an eye-catching patio. Granite setts can be used to great effect in a patio or seating area, either used on their own, or as a combination of colours and sizes.
Granite Setts Used As Edging Stones
Other than the traditional uses for granite setts, such as pathways, driveways and as hard-standing areas in landscaping designs, granite setts, in particular, the larger sizes, can be used as edging stones, retaining other materials such as gravel, chippings, concrete or tarmac.
Granite Setts For Driveways
There can be nothing more enduring than a cobbled driveway, simply no other product can achieve the look of granite used in this form. Laid correctly it will last a lifetime and continue to look better as the years go by.