Without a good design reason, as many sides as there are on your house.

All. Or none.

Not a pro. Another vote for all four sides.

Do it right and design all sides of a house as if they will be seen. You should be building architecture, not a movie set.

Brick all sides! :-) Houses just look so much more lovely with the same material all the way around. <3

Another vote for all 4 sides.

All sides of a house are important...so do the same thing on every side.

A cost saving option is to use the brick on all sides as if it was the exposed part of the foundation, i.e., only about 1.5-2 feet out of the ground.

I'm curious why you say that veneer is triple the cost of full brick. By the way, if you use brick your foundation will need a brick ledge for support.

Isn’t the whole house veneer? It’s a wood house with a veneer of brick. That section of brick above the gable gets supported by steel L that is bolted to the framing.

Alternatively only use brick from the first floor down. As if the house had a brick foundation.

"To brick this entire house it will be $50k to give you an idea of the costs"

You asked peoples opinions, If you cannot afford to put it all the way around do not use it at all.

Brick is an expensive product. I have done 3 sides brick before because of the large $$ involved. Remember that brick should give you some sound isolation.

When we did 3 sides brick, our hardie side was the back. It was a walkout basement so it was a really big surface. Wouldn't you know it - we later had some loud neighbors in their back yard so really missed the extra sound isolation.

It is far better to do 4 sides. What we did for our latest build is a use brick intermittently around the house so it is a total of about 50% brick. I think it works and is fairly common in my area. The design was supposed to make the house look older and having been added on to over the years. Whatever - perhaps - but it clearly is a new house.

If you do the 3 sides, would you wrap the front corner for a few feet so that it would not be obvious from the front? That would be my concern.

I assume you haven't started yet because all this needs to be planned at foundation level.

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You're not framing the house like a picture hung on the wall. Either you brick all four sides or none.

What I did on my house was as Hallett suggested. I used stone (instead of brick) to give the illusion and feel that the house is sitting on on a stone foundation and used hardie and stucco (we live in FL) for the rest of the house.

I have a west exposure that is 5' from my fence line and faces my neighbor's garage which is 5' from his lot line, so absolutely no one sees this side of the house. I still put stone on to make it look authentic and so it continues around the side from the front to the back.