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Stone veneer

Have you ever played with building blocks? You can stack them up and make a cool tower or even a house!

Sometimes, people want their house to look like it's made out of stones. But building a house with real stones can be too heavy, too expensive, and take too long to build. That's where stone veneer comes in!

Stone veneer is like a special sticker that you can put on your house. But it's not just any sticker, it looks like real stones! This sticker is made out of a mixture of cement and other materials that look and feel like real stones.

First, workers put a special kind of glue called "mortar" onto a wall. Then, they stick these stone veneers on top of the mortar. They put them in a pattern that makes it look like a wall made out of real stones.

So, when you look at a house with stone veneer, it looks like it's made out of stones, but it's actually just a sticker that looks like stones! The fun part is you can have different colors and shapes so you can make your house look super cool!
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