Specialty stonework, Byron GA
Wet bars, custom edges, fireplaces and stone repair
Wet bars, fireplace surrounds, ogee edges and scrolled corners, and the repair of broken stone pieces that a countertop shop is rarely asked to touch.
A wet bar is a small room that asks a lot of the stone
The wet bar in the photo packs a lot into a short run: a swirled brown and grey granite top, a backsplash cut from the same stone, an undermount stainless bowl, white shaker cabinets and a pine floor. Because the run is short, the pattern is all anyone sees, so the slab you choose and the way it is laid out carry the whole look.
An undermount bowl asks more of a fabricator than a drop-in sink does. The opening's edge is exposed and has to be finished clean, and the stone around it has to stay strong where the cutout leaves the least material. That is shop work, done in Byron before the top ever reaches your house.
The edge on the front of the top is another place where a shop shows its hand. The shop has done ogee edges and scrolled corners, the kind of profile that takes a slow, steady hand rather than a quick pass. If you want something more than a plain eased edge, ask about it.
Wet bar seen from above with a swirled brown and grey granite top, matching backsplash, undermount stainless bowl, white shaker cabinets and a pine floor
Fireplace surrounds, repairs and old-world pieces
Specialty stonework is where this shop's history runs deepest. Rick Coon is a mason by trade, and he came up through brick and concrete block, then ceramic tile, then setting stone. When Stone Business magazine profiled the shop in December 2003, the work it described went well beyond countertops: fireplace surrounds, and the repair and restoration of marble statues, columns, pedestals and balustrades.
The same profile described the shop replicating old-world stone furniture. At that time it was on a list at Robins Air Force Base, so families returning from Europe with broken stone furniture could have a piece repaired, replaced or replicated. That is heritage, not a current menu, and it is a fair picture of what kind of problem the shop likes to be handed.
So treat this page as an invitation to ask, not a price list. If you have a cracked hearth, a chipped pedestal or a piece of stone furniture that needs mending, describe it and the shop will tell you honestly whether it can help.
Why one-off work belongs with a small in-house shop
Anything out of the ordinary goes wrong when it passes through too many hands. In the same 2003 profile, Rick Coon put the shop's approach this way: "We don't take anything for granted and everything is done in-house, from the templating to the installation." Templating, cutting in the Byron shop and installation all stay with the shop's own people.
Connie in the showroom can help you sort out material and pattern, as customers like Helga Leahy have said, and the slabs are in the yard for you to walk through. Bring a photo of the piece or the room, or the broken stone itself if it travels, and the conversation starts from something real. Aftercare stays simple too: a broken seam or failed caulk gets repaired promptly.
Wet bars and fireplaces turn up in homes all over Warner Robins and Macon, and the shop is a short drive from both on I-75. Call (478) 956-2222 or come to 2347 GA-247 Connector in Byron, Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Raccoon Stone & Tile. Templating, cutting and installation done in-house. Call (478) 956-2222.