what brick goes well with a Granbury limestone on exterior?
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Comments (17)Flush joints are not the recommended joint for an exterior application due to the risk for water penetration. Have you considered a grapevine joint? That would give it an older look (at least early American, I'm not sure about "old, antique") and provide better water penetration resistance. I've attached a link to the BIA guidelines. We're using a grapevine mortar joint on our house (it's an historical reproduction) with a brick that is similar to the one shown above, and IMHO, it looks perfect! I love your brick...gorgeous! Here is a link that might be useful: Mortar Joints...See MoreExterior help - paint full house, limewash brick, just paint siding?
Comments (10)@Zone4 yeah, I think I'm starting to realize that the brick probably helps break up the facade and keep it interesting. I'm starting to be really intrigued with the limewashing idea. If it turns out we could paint the windows, would you do black or white? I like the idea of a black/charcoal, but have also heard that is the worst color on vinyl windows. @aprilneverends it has been hard to really get the colors across from the listing pics. Basically it is 50 shades of unappealing (to me at least) tan inside and out. So I want a dramatic change, but I know people are really torn about changing brick, so I'll probably have my husband mockup a version with the brick and a dark greige paint to see how that looks alongside a limewashed version. Front door, yes, that thing has a big stain glass Texas star that doesn't help anything. I was thinking one of the modern doors with 3-5 satin horizontal lites to keep some light coming in from the door, then finding a complimentary garage door. For the French doors, I definitely won't change my mind on the divided lites - however they are just an overlay on top of a solid piece of glass, so one of the contractors said you could just pop them off. One set of doors needs a new handle, the other needs about $300 in repair work and weatherproofing, so that is why I'm debating whether or not to rehab these versus put in new ones. And if we replace, I don't know if sliding glass doors that let in tons of light or new French doors with the thinnest frame possible would look best. I know landscaping will have a huge impact too, and could really turn this into a more modern looking house. The bones are certainly good, and it is plain enough that we can subtly take it in a couple directions, just trying to narrow down what will look best while also being somewhat our style....See MoreWhat interior design style goes with this exterior?
Comments (11)IMO the exterior and the interior do not have to match. Get that horrible lattice off there now. As for the interior if you like modern since they already ruined the brick you might as well paint it now. This is my old house that we did not want to ruin the style on the exterior but did not stop us from have a very contemporary interior. Add a newgarage door a bit lees traditional and then go to work with some more modern landscaping design to have a nice flow....See MoreWhat’s between the brick exterior and plaster wall interior. 100 YO.
Comments (12)while I’d prefer to keep the plaster, it bulges in some areas and creates snag points on the walls and there Are a lot of patches that just weren’t done properly, so replacing it with Sheetrock would allow me to fix it all at once and in terms of the bathroom I’m going to build in, it will also allow me to open the walls to allow the plumbing and electrical to be run faster(and cheaper). The Walls and ceilings all over the house are textured and some rooms have already been converted to Sheetrock and they textured those to match the plaster(poorly). When I did make some holes in the walls for things like new outlets, I didn’t find any paper under the texturing layer, just solid plaster. Seriously, the house has probably been worked on by 5 different contractors and none of them even tried to match the work of the others. The drywall work was sloppy and they used too much joint compound in some areas, none in others. ill try to post some pictures on my Profile under a new project for more details and so you can see what I’m talking about. The house is sitting on a cement foundation. Not block. I just wasn’t sure if cement could be covered and not have it look like I’m trying to hide something. I haven’t seen any code against it in the UBC or in my local city/county codes....See MorePatricia Colwell Consulting
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