Outdoor bar tops, Byron GA
Outdoor bar tops cut from dense granite
Porch and outdoor kitchen bars in dense, heavily veined granite, with a matching backsplash run along the wall.
A porch bar lives in weather a kitchen never sees
A bar top under a covered porch has a different life from one inside the house. Afternoon sun rakes across it, heat builds against the wall behind it, and in central Georgia a hard cold snap can still show up once the long humid months are over. Stone handles all of that, but the choice of stone matters more outdoors than it does at the kitchen island.
The top in the photo is a heavily veined, swirled brown and grey granite, and it is a sensible pick for a porch. Dense granite is hard, it shrugs off a wet glass or a hot dish set down in a hurry, and a pattern this busy hides a ring of condensation or a dusting of pollen far better than a plain, even colour would.
Ask about sealing before you buy. How a particular slab takes a sealer, and how often an outdoor top should have it renewed, is a question to put to the shop while you are standing in front of the stone in the Byron yard. It is not something a web page can promise for every slab.
Covered porch bar with a swirled brown and grey granite top and a matching granite backsplash under a tongue-and-groove wood ceiling
The backsplash run is part of the top
Most outdoor bars sit against a wall or a half wall, and that wall needs something behind the bar that wipes clean. In the photo the same swirled granite runs up the wall behind the top, so the pattern carries from the work surface into the backsplash and the whole bar reads as one piece of stone.
That match is a layout decision made in the shop. Because the top and the backsplash are cut in Byron by the same people, the two can be planned together from the slab you picked instead of being ordered as separate parts that nearly agree.
Pattern-heavy granite also rewards care at the seams. One Google reviewer, Shawn Carpenter, wrote about his kitchen that the man who cut the stone "took great pride in matching up the natural patterns where piecing was required". A long bar often needs a joint somewhere, and where that joint falls is worth a conversation before anything is cut.
Templating on a porch, then setting the top
A porch bar is often part of a new build, with the framing in and the finishes still going on. The photo shows exactly that: a covered porch with a tongue-and-groove wood ceiling overhead and the bar built in below it. The shop templates from the actual bar frame, standing at the job. One reviewer, Michael Evangelo, wrote that the person who came out to his house spent four hours on the template, and that the install was a perfect fit.
From there the work stays with the same people. The stone is cut in the Byron shop and set by the shop's own installer, with no subcontracted crew arriving at your porch. If a seam opens or a bead of caulk fails after the job, a repair gets made promptly.
Building or finishing a porch in Warner Robins, Macon or Byron? Call (478) 956-2222, or come to the yard at 2347 GA-247 Connector and look at the slabs standing on edge. The shop is open Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Raccoon Stone & Tile. Templating, cutting and installation done in-house. Call (478) 956-2222.