Stone studio & fabrication · Halfacre Crossing · Est. 2013
Come stand on it before it is yours.
Halfacre is a fabrication shop with a slab showroom attached: fourteen bundles open under the skylights, coffee on, no appointment needed. Choose the actual slab, watch the CNC take the template file, and the same two hands that cut your edges set them in your kitchen a fortnight later.
The showroom is open Monday to Saturday, no appointment · (555) 014-7738 · floor@halfacrestone.example
Services
What leaves the bench
01
Quartz counters — $70–88 / sq ft installed
Three-centimetre engineered quartz, eased or mitered edges, undermount cutouts routed in the shop. We unroll the pattern repeat beside you before you commit — quartz is a wonderful servant and a poor impersonator, and we sell it as the first thing only.
02
Quartzite & granite — $88–118 / sq ft
The natural stones that take a hot pan and forgive a life. Polished, honed or leathered to order, sealed for fifteen years on our bench, and cut from bundles you have stood in front of under the skylights — not from a swatch book.
03
Waterfall legs & mitered aprons — $155 / linear ft
Legs cut as mitered pairs and glued from the same slab as the top, so the grain runs over the edge and straight down to the floor. Bookmatching where the bundle allows, and a glue line we challenge you to find with a fingernail.
04
Restoration & repairs — from $240
Chips ground out and colour-matched, burns honed away, tired sealant stripped and renewed. Half the furniture in a room like this is the stone — we would rather restore yours than sell you a new one.
Profiles & extras
The edge card
Edges are where a shop’s patience shows — hours per linear foot, at the bench, by hand. Published, because an edge you have to ask the price of is an edge we should not be selling.
Profiles & finishes
Eased edgeIncluded
The clean modern default — machine-cut, hand-finished
Mitered apron edge$155 / linear ft
Cut and glued from the same slab as the field
Ogee$42 / linear ft
The period S-curve, ground and polished at the bench
Bullnose or half-bullnose$28 / linear ft
Rounded for elbows under ten years old
Full-height upstand$65 / linear ft
Stone instead of a silicone bead at the wall
Honing or leathering a face$12 / sq ft
Matte or textured, on any slab we stock
Halfacre Crossing, 2025 — 2026
Off the bench this year
Six jobs photographed at handover. Under the skylights is where you meet the stone; this is where the stone ended up.
From skylight to kitchen
How a Halfacre job runs
No deposits until the template is signed, and no surprises after it is — the sequence below has not changed in eleven years.
Day 1
The showroom floor
You, the skylights, and fourteen open bundles with the prices written on the racks. Reserve what you like; the coffee is free and nobody hovers.
Days 2–3
The laser template
Two hours in your kitchen on the existing tops. You approve seam placement and edge details on screen before a blade is chosen.
Weeks 1–2
The bench
The file drives the CNC, the edges come to the hand bench, mitered pairs clamp overnight. Visit whenever the doors are open — the saw is behind glass.
Install day
The set
Old tops out, stone in, levelled and seamed by the two hands that cut it. The kitchen is a kitchen again by mid-afternoon.
The week after
The care visit
A sealer check on natural stone, a wipe-down lesson, and the written care sheet — the boring hour that adds ten years.
I stood under their skylights for an hour and chose a quartzite I had gone in not knowing existed. Two of my neighbours have since chosen the same bundle’s brother — and the mitered legs on my island still make the joiner who fitted the cabinets a little bitter.
A soapstone wedging bench for a pottery, of all things. They asked what clay does to a surface, oiled the stone to the colour of our shelves, and rounded every edge a wrist slides over. It is the best tool in the building and it happens to be a counter.
The remnant rack gave me a carrara vanity at forty percent off, cut the same week, sealed the same day. They treated the small job like the big ones I had been quoted twice as much for elsewhere.
Fair questions
Asked under the skylights
The five the showroom hears every week. Bring yours in person — the answers are better with the stone in front of you.
Do I need an appointment?
No. The skylights are on Monday to Saturday and the racks are labelled with material and price. Bring room measurements if you have them; if you do not, bring photographs and we will do the arithmetic together at the bench.
Why is there a range on the square-foot price?
Cutout count, edge choice and seam placement move it — a farm kitchen with a sink, a hob and a drizzle of windows costs more per foot than a straight run. The laser measure settles the real number, and the quote that follows it is the number you pay.
Can I buy a slab and have you just cut it?
Gladly — fabrication-only is $34 per square foot plus the edge card, and we will tell you honestly if the slab you found elsewhere is worth carrying through our door. Some bargains are not, and you should hear that before you pay for the truck.
What is the remnant rack?
The offcuts too good to chip: half-slabs and better, forty percent off, ideal for vanities, sills and benches. It turns over monthly. Friday afternoons are when the market’s regulars come to dig.
Do you do the plumbing?
No, and we will not pretend to. We cut the tap holes to your fixture’s template, hold the sink in the set, and coordinate the morning with your plumber — most of the Crossing’s trades are on first-name terms with our schedule anyway.
The studio, in figures
Come stand on it
Or write first, if that is your way of doing things: the room, the run, and when you would like to be cooking on stone. The showroom answer is usually “this week”. floor@halfacrestone.example