While in Chicago last week, we visited our son where he works in the city. He is with a biz called Materials Marketing, which makes and sells specialty stone, tile, metal, and glass products for high end projects.
They have quite a showroom, and the thing that impressed me was the gallery of stone fireplace surround kits. A lot of stuff like this:
You can pick out a stock one and build the room to fit, or give them some drawings and they will build it custom.
The stone surround kits on display ranged in price from $6,000 to over $30,000. Wow!