Outdoor living spaces, it seems, are all the rage in the northwest. They can be as simple as a small fire pit in the back yard, all the way up to those elaborate, high-end outdoor kitchens you see in Sunset Magazine. Both serve the same purpose; getting us outside to enjoy the warm weather, family and friends.
Mutual Materials offers many different products that can help create your ideal outdoor living space. Installing a paver patio is a simple, low-cost way to enhance your backyard and create a functional, beautiful area for people to gather. Add retaining wall block to your design to create a seating wall for guests to sit and relax, or to build a fire pit for warmth and pizzazz.
For those with larger areas to work with, an outdoor fireplace can be a beautiful addition to your backyard. Mutual Materials now carries the FireRock line of prefab fireplace units. These fireplaces are both cost effective and fairly simple to install. Generally, they can be constructed in one day and faced with your favorite brick or stone in one day. A two-day outdoor fireplace solution is great option for homeowners and contractors alike. Please visit our website at www.mutualmaterials.com, or one of our many northwest branches, for more information on all our products that can be used to build the outdoor living space of your dreams.
Rob Rosson
Residential Sales Manager
Friday, June 25, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
DesignEyeQ
Guest blog from Krista Bucher, Owens Corning Masonry Products Area Sales Manager. Mutual Materials supplies Cultured Stone and Prostone products throughout our sales and distribution network.
A picture can be worth a thousand words. It holds true with masonry as well. That's why Owens Corning recently introduced a new visualization tool called Design EyeQ. It was created to help homeowners, contractors, builders, and designers visualize what stone would look like on, in, and around the home. Have a particular project in mind? Simply upload a photo of the home, determine what areas to add stone, and apply one of many popular Cultured Stone products to it. When you're done, you can save it, print it, and show it off! Then bring it in to one of the many Mutual Materials branches for samples and additional product info.
Don't have a specific project yet? That's OK too - feel free to choose from a number of popular home styles that are pre-populated and try out professionally designed color palettes or create custom combinations.
If you can dream it, we'll help you design it.
Be sure to check it out at www.culturedstone.com/
A picture can be worth a thousand words. It holds true with masonry as well. That's why Owens Corning recently introduced a new visualization tool called Design EyeQ. It was created to help homeowners, contractors, builders, and designers visualize what stone would look like on, in, and around the home. Have a particular project in mind? Simply upload a photo of the home, determine what areas to add stone, and apply one of many popular Cultured Stone products to it. When you're done, you can save it, print it, and show it off! Then bring it in to one of the many Mutual Materials branches for samples and additional product info.
Don't have a specific project yet? That's OK too - feel free to choose from a number of popular home styles that are pre-populated and try out professionally designed color palettes or create custom combinations.
If you can dream it, we'll help you design it.
Be sure to check it out at www.culturedstone.com/
Monday, June 14, 2010
Mutual Brick Selected for Future Hospital Expansions
For the fifteenth consecutive year, Cleveland Clinic has been ranked No. 1 in the nation for heart care according to the 2009 U.S News & World Report, “America’s Best Hospitals” survey. Since 1994 no other hospital in the country has ranked higher than Cleveland Clinic for cardio care. The survey also ranked Cleveland Clinic as one of the best hospitals overall – ranked at No. 4 nationally.
So with billions of dollars in research grant money, Cleveland Clinic is on a building spree. And they have selected Mutual Materials’ Granite smooth colored face brick on three state of the art health and research facilities in and around the greater Cleveland area.
The first project to select Mutual brick was the Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center (GCIC) that broke ground in the fall of 2009. As one can imagine, competition was fierce. Our distributor in the area, The Thomas Brick Co., reported that local area brick manufacturers and distributors were “pulling out all the stops” in trying to supply product on such a high profile project - not to mention a severe recession in this area that has suppliers scrambling to find business. But in the end, a determined effort by Thomas Brick was able to convince the architect and ownership that no one in the US has a color quite like Mutual’s granite brick. It is a singular color made up of a white clay body with a dark speckle. It was a perfect fit for the simplistic, modern building design envisioned by the designers.
Building number two is the Family Health & Surgery Center located in the Cleveland suburb of Twinsburg. At nearly four times the square footage, this project will require about four times as much brick as the GCIC. A third project, the Family Health Center in Avon, OH will feature an approximate three-fold use in brick over the original GCIC. Again, both projects feature very modernistic design for which Mutual’s Granite brick color is uniquely suited.
There is currently a fourth building in the design phase. With the momentum gained from the first three buildings, it looks as if Mutual Materials will continue to play an important role in the expansion plans in one of our nation’s top health care providers.
Steve Hubbard
Distributor Sales Manager
So with billions of dollars in research grant money, Cleveland Clinic is on a building spree. And they have selected Mutual Materials’ Granite smooth colored face brick on three state of the art health and research facilities in and around the greater Cleveland area.
The first project to select Mutual brick was the Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center (GCIC) that broke ground in the fall of 2009. As one can imagine, competition was fierce. Our distributor in the area, The Thomas Brick Co., reported that local area brick manufacturers and distributors were “pulling out all the stops” in trying to supply product on such a high profile project - not to mention a severe recession in this area that has suppliers scrambling to find business. But in the end, a determined effort by Thomas Brick was able to convince the architect and ownership that no one in the US has a color quite like Mutual’s granite brick. It is a singular color made up of a white clay body with a dark speckle. It was a perfect fit for the simplistic, modern building design envisioned by the designers.
Building number two is the Family Health & Surgery Center located in the Cleveland suburb of Twinsburg. At nearly four times the square footage, this project will require about four times as much brick as the GCIC. A third project, the Family Health Center in Avon, OH will feature an approximate three-fold use in brick over the original GCIC. Again, both projects feature very modernistic design for which Mutual’s Granite brick color is uniquely suited.
There is currently a fourth building in the design phase. With the momentum gained from the first three buildings, it looks as if Mutual Materials will continue to play an important role in the expansion plans in one of our nation’s top health care providers.
Steve Hubbard
Distributor Sales Manager
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