A stone fireplace is rustic, natural, masculine, and beautiful. An indoor stone fireplace can add warmth and depth to a room and an outdoor stone fireplace can add character and activity to your yard. Whether you are thinking about constructing stone fireplace designs for outdoors or indoors, the choices of materials available to you are large. There many different kinds of stone for your natural stone fireplace such as granite, slate, limestone, marble, etc...You also need to decide on whether you want to use real natural stone or cultured, manufactured faux stone. A faux stone fireplace can be just as beautiful as a fireplace made of real stone and most of the time it is hard to tell the difference. There are advantages and disadvantages of both options. No matter what kind of stone fireplace construction you choose, the addition of a stone fireplace could add a lot of value to your home.