In a rural area, a dwelling can be surrounded by large natural stones. However, in an urban area, a homeowner or a business owner might find it useful to invest in some fake rocks. Those seemingly hard objects can be made of various materials—cast stone, fiberglass or polyurethane.
Why Consider Fake Rocks
Usually, homeowners and business owners that choose to purchase a rock-like structure want to hide a particular object. It could be a well, a septic system or set of septic tank risers. The owner of an apartment building might want to hide a group of utility boxes or cable boxes. The presence of such objects can detract from the overall appeal of an apartment complex.
The owner of a restaurant or a motel might see fake rocks as the ideal way for hiding pest control boxes. Obviously, he or she does not want guests to see that the eating establishment or lodging facility has had pest problems in the past. Recently, all commercial businesses have had to give some thought to hiding a different set of equipment—surveillance equipment.
If a business’ owner hoped to keep close track of the comings and goings in the parking lot, then he or she would need to think about using fake rocks. Such objects can be placed along the perimeter of the parking area. A hollowed out structure could be used to hold a camera.
Beyond their ability to hide unsightly items, placement of rock-like structures can aid development of an attractive landscape. Fake landscape rocks have been used to decorate pools and ponds. They can disguise important equipment, such as chlorinator pipes or water pumps. Homeowners can locate such items by going online and visiting sites such as www.fakerock.com.
The Brookstone Company also makes and sells faux landscaping pieces. Their products come in a variety of colors—slate gray, sandstone, sedonia red and fieldstone. Each of those dull colored objects has the same textured surface as a large natural stone. Each of them remains fixed in place, because it has stakes that dig firmly into the ground.
So, a gardener does not have to worry about the possibility that a fiberglass object might go rolling across a patch of lovely marigolds or violets. That gardener can go ahead and plant all manner of green and flowering foliage around those examples of artificial stone. The presence of such flora will intensify the realistic look of those less than real objects.
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