Wall Cladding

• Exterior wall cladding for gardens, facades and features

• Natural stone, porcelain and stone-effect cladding options

• Split face, stacked and brick-style formats

• Greys, buffs and multicolours to match your paving

• Suitable for competent DIYers and landscapers

• Samples and expert support from Paving Stones Direct

Wall cladding is a facing layer that fixes to an existing wall or frame to change how it looks and performs. Instead of building a full thickness stone wall, you use thinner cladding pieces or panels on the visible face, keeping weight and cost under control while still getting depth, texture and variation. For exterior wall cladding, most customers choose either natural stone cladding or porcelain cladding. Natural stone cladding uses real slate, sandstone, quartzite or similar in split face or stacked formats, so every panel has unique tones and riven textures. Porcelain wall cladding uses vitrified tiles with realistic stone or brick effects, which gives you a very consistent look and low porosity that stands up well to staining and weather.

Many wall cladding ranges work outdoors on garden walls, garages and outbuildings, and some also carry through indoors on chimney breasts, media walls and entrances so you can create a joined up scheme.

In gardens, exterior wall cladding usually starts with feature walls. A band of stone cladding behind a seating area or hot tub can act like an outdoor backdrop, framing furniture and planting. Around patios, cladding is a popular choice for capping and facing raised beds, retaining walls and step risers so the vertical surfaces look as considered as the paving underfoot. Cladding works well around outdoor kitchens and bars, where it can wrap blockwork bases so they feel more like built-in garden furniture than improvised structures. Many homeowners also use wall cladding on boundary walls, garage fronts or the lower portion of house facades to give more interest and to tie the property into the paving and landscaping in front of it.

Some collections are also suitable for sheltered interior use, so you can echo an external feature wall inside a garden room, hallway or living space if you want a consistent look from indoors to outdoors.

Natural stone wall cladding ranges cover everything from rustic slate pieces with strong colour movement through to more refined sandstone and quartzite in neatly sawn, staggered formats. These work particularly well in traditional gardens, cottage settings and rural properties, where the natural variation in tone and texture feels in keeping with older brick and stonework. Porcelain wall cladding and stone-effect tiles lean slightly more contemporary. They can mimic split face stone, dry-stacked walling or brick courses, with crisp edges and very consistent sizing that creates sharp shadow lines. Because porcelain is manufactured, you often see subtle stone patterns, concrete looks and even timber effects that are difficult to achieve with real stone alone.

In terms of colour, grey wall cladding remains a core choice, from pale silvers through to deep charcoals that pair nicely with modern porcelain paving. Warmer buffs, creams and multicolour blends suit classic Indian sandstone patios and more traditional planting schemes. Many customers also mix tones, using darker cladding as a backdrop and lighter paving in front to keep outdoor spaces bright. Formats range from interlocking Z-shaped panels and long slim strips to more regular rectangular tiles. Interlocking panels help to disguise joints and speed up installation, while smaller pieces give a more detailed look around pillars, corners and tight spaces.

Paving Stones Direct brings together exterior wall cladding ranges that work alongside the rest of your landscaping, not against it. You can coordinate wall cladding with matching or complementary paving, steps and copings so patios, raised areas and boundaries all feel part of one design rather than a mix of separate products. Because we work closely with trusted manufacturers and quarries, you get wall cladding in well balanced colour blends with reliable sizing, so installers spend more time fixing panels and less time sorting or correcting pieces. Many of our collections offer sample pieces, which makes it easier to check tones against existing brickwork, render or paving before you commit to full packs.

Alongside the cladding itself, you will find installation guides, primers, adhesives, sealers and cleaners suited to both natural stone wall cladding and porcelain wall cladding. Our team speaks to homeowners and trade customers every day, so if you need help choosing between different formats, colours or materials for your exterior wall cladding, you have expert support on hand.