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southpaw3229
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csintexas
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Different strokes for different folks as they say. They look like pretty average brick from that tiny pic. I think you should do whatever you like.
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phansford
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Once you start painting brick.... then you are painting forever. I don't think I have heard of anyone staining brick, maybe a solid stain would work. You need to talk to a local painter or a mason.
Also - paint is a barrier. You have to make sure you get a breathable paint. Consult your local paint store..... better yet, get the name of the company rep that supports that store and talk to them. You might try emailing Sherwin Williams and pose the question to them.
There isn't enough "Trim" or siding to paint to change the look of the house. I only recommend painting brick as a last resort..... and looking a the photo, the brick color looks fine. But color is a personal taste.
No offense intended, but it you did not like the brick - why buy the house, particularly in the buyer's market we are currently experiencing. |
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SDR
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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I support the above. Brick is one of the natural wonders of the building world, and although I've seen ugly brickwork (usually the result of a willful mixing of two incompatible colors in the same wall) this house looks fine to me.
Please live with it for a year before making a decision. The white trim could be made any number of pale tones. Perhaps just the large white gable would look good with a shade that harmonizes or contrasts with the brick color. Some time spent with Photoshop (or prints of that photo, and colored pencils) would be an economical and entertaining way of exploring the possibilities.
Thanks for letting us take a look !
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lekizz
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| Bear in mind too that brick tends to age naturally and gracefully. Paint tends to fade, peel, flake, go out of fashion etc. Once you've painted your house it will be virtually impossible to undo. I agree with the others who say your house looks fine. IMO the natural colour of the brick actually goes quite sympathetically with the boulders in the photo. |
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scottr303
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: Ugly Brick |
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I too am generally not in favor of painting brick for the same reasons as stated before. The brick on the house appears to be a color that washes out any detail work. Some brick just do not show the detail well.
A few ideas for your consideration.
1) replace some of the brick with stone - possibly the entry and another area.
2)for a more formal look add cast stone at the entry, around the windows, and replace the quoin corners.
3) add a decorative window or vent in the gable
4)add a brick or cast stone water table
5) look at some landscaping to soften the base and break up the expanse of brick
These are only some thoughts to get you thinking.
"Doctors can bury their mistakes.....Architects have to grow ivy over theirs." |
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southpaw3229
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:16 am Post subject: Re: Ugly Brick |
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Thanks you very much. I think your ideas are very good. It's a given that we are going to landscape, but i didn't think about putting cast stone in. thanks for hte great ideas.
| scottr303 wrote: | I too am generally not in favor of painting brick for the same reasons as stated before. The brick on the house appears to be a color that washes out any detail work. Some brick just do not show the detail well.
A few ideas for your consideration.
1) replace some of the brick with stone - possibly the entry and another area.
2)for a more formal look add cast stone at the entry, around the windows, and replace the quoin corners.
3) add a decorative window or vent in the gable
4)add a brick or cast stone water table
5) look at some landscaping to soften the base and break up the expanse of brick
These are only some thoughts to get you thinking.
"Doctors can bury their mistakes.....Architects have to grow ivy over theirs." |
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SDR
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Putting cast stone or other new masonry trim "in" means either sticking it "on," or tearing out brick around openings or elsewhere to replace existing brick with new material. Either course will be expensive, especially the latter -- even in the event that this brick is a veneer, rather than solid masonry.
Lipstick on a pig ? But this "pig" is really quite done already, and not ugly at all (in my opinion).
Doing something to the woodwork, including the items offered by Scott, and the landscaping, should be enough to "make it your own" (which is often what we are really trying to do when we remodel a newly-acquired home, I think. . .).
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djswan
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What about that ugly roof? Is it possible to grow ivy over that?
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SDR
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I'm trying to read the apparent difference in datum between the windows to the left of the tall central element and those to the right of it. The right-hand windows appear to be a bit lower. One way to make sense of that is that the left-most bay is forward of the right-hand one, in plan. This in turn would explain why the roof had to be treated differently over the left-hand bay. A case of letting the plan get ahead of the exterior treatment, during the design phase ?
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