we have to paint our brick house! help!
When we bought our house we noticed the whole exterior had an unusal coating on it - tar and little particles, looks like roofing material. We consulted a brick restoration expert, said he'd never seen anything like it. It was originally a charming 30s minimal tudorish house but as you can see has been mistreated with some lousy remodels. It can be a shame to paint brick but in this case it has to be done.
We're somewhat decided on cream as we'd like to steer things towards a more classic historical look (these are photoshopped). I'm hung up on the foundation, which I think might be fun to paint a dark color with a serious kick of green or blue, or brown for a safer bet. Would that be nuts, and is cream all wrong?? My hope is that it works for the architectural style and future renovations would play off the cream for a historical look. One day I think it would be nice to tear down the front porch and add a simple portico and maybe put up shakes where there's cheap siding. Thank you kindly for looking and any advice is much appreciated!!! I know it looks like hell!
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PROBeth H. :
2 years agopost current pics.
I'd use Romabio Masonry Paint. They also have a Classico Limewash. look into it. extremely low maintenance.
The Masonry paint can be tinted any color you like.
The classico comes in these shades
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Color experts, please help--what color should we paint our house?
Comments (18)Thank you! So much great feedback. Sadly, the paint job is a necessity rather than just aesthetics -- paint on the back side is failing pretty badly & peeling off in layers. (After reading up on the paint forum, I think it was just too many layers of latex on top of old oil paint without adequate prep.) Maybe we will keep it close to current color. I'm not sure what color it is, but I'll have to stop by the BM store and pick up a tab for Briarwood. I think those color visualizers are just a bit off, at least on our monitor -- Down Pour is a very smurf-y blue on my screen. Luckily, SW store is right down the street. Of the SW colors, we liked Mineral Deposit -- gray, but not quite so dark. Johnmari, my wife said exactly that about warm trim looking bad with cool gray field color. I just want to get away from the current ultrawhite, just tone down a bit but not too much. Shutters? I think we will someday, after we've finished the essentials. Of course, being picky, I don't want to just screw aluminum shutters that don't match window size on there, so might be a while given that real shutters & hardware are pricey. The suggestion about doing the sash black is good--that could look really sharp and make the windows pop a bit more until we can dress it up a bit more with shutters. Absolutely agreed on the landscaping solutions. Could be more varied and it would add a lot. THANK YOU for all your suggestions, such a helpful group & nice little corner of the internet....See MoreWe painted the "wrong" color on our house. Help!
Comments (65)Seriously, I LOVE your blue house, and your house is why I would never ever move into a "community development". The Pink Hello Kitty house someone else has exhibited is too much, I'd agree -- but I'd basically tell new house guests -- if you reach Hello Kitty, you've gone too far, turn around and come back... Yes, a blue grey would work I'm sure. I don't have one to show you -- my current home is all grey with brown-red shutters and white trim. I like "Distance" and "Storm Cloud", in that order. PS: Your Boothbay Blue choice on your most recent post is also wonderful....See MoreWhat should we do about the worn out brick on our home?
Comments (2)The word you may be looking for is efflorescence, a white powdery scum that appears on masonry. But the placement of the spots makes me think it's not efflorescence. I would leave the shutters on. Removing them is going to expose holes where they were attached and shadows where they once were. There are lots of ways you could go with this. I would paint the vinyl (hardiplank?) gray to match the mortar between the bricks, paint the shutters and arches above the upper windows black, and for the door, either leave it as is, or a teal color, or an autumnal orange that goes well with the bricks (assuming I'm seeing the color of the bricks accurately). Since you just bought the house, live with it as is for a while and look around the neighborhood at what other people have done....See MoreHi We are building a home on the water, we want to paint our pilings
Comments (2)You will have bad results trying to paint wooden pilings. They will wick moisture up the pilings and will assure that the paint fails by peeling. If you insist on putting a color coat on wooden pilings, you would have better results using a solid hide acrylic based ( non-oil ) house stain....See More
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2 years agothanks! the wide shot of the whole house is very forgiving, up close it's weird and a lot of people seem almost disturbed by it. we thought we could have it blasted off but the masonry restorer said no. i know the porch addition is bad but the brick coating seems like the bigger offender.
littlebug zone 5 Missouri
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Beth H. :
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoare you sure that isn't that coating process they did back in the 40's or something? pebbledash? (or Roughcast)
It's usually done w/a plaster type of mix, and not tar!It was started as a way to cover poor quality brick and give the house more weather protection. is it on every square inch of the house??
I would call in a painting company who is familiar w/pebbledash and see if they have something to paint over it. Removal is never recommended since it will usually pull out the mortar and damage the brick.
this process was done a lot over in the UK. the have this to paint over it, but don't know if you can get it here
houssaon
2 years agoIt looks like the original porch was enclosed and a new porch was added. Would you be up to removing the new porch? How about opening the original porch? I would do the color in dark gray or to match the current brick. BTW, is this coating on all of the brick or only on some sides?
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoThanks for all your ideas and info! It does look a lot like pebbledash! The undersides of the big chunks I can pull off the foundation are black. It's pulling away from the foundation blocks but not the brick.
It's all over every brick on every side of the house and the foundation. In coming up with a palette, there is nothing to work with. Just cheap windows, a paved driveway and this asphalt shingle roof. You can see here the coating has come off the grout here and is just on the bricks.
You can see some original bare brick at the top corner of this window, where there had been an awning. The porch has to go! I like the idea of doing something two-toned, but does that work if it's all just brick? Would shakes help?
houssaon
2 years agoI wonder if the protruding bricks are clinker bricks. I think you need to identify that actual composition of the "pebble" dash. You could apply more, but I would be concerned that the bond might not be good.
This gorgeous house has pebble dash stucco.
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