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re: painted white brick homes
Posted on 1/12/21 at 9:52 am to Salmon
Posted on 1/12/21 at 9:52 am to Salmon
My home was built in the 1970s and the brick is a tanish brownish color. I hate it. The roof is also brown shingles, which I can't stand. As soon as we get a hail storm that requires a new roof, I'm going with a grey shingle like my previous home and will likely paint the bricks an off white or cream color. My only problem with painting the bricks is that the mortar between the bricks is inset a good 3/4 of an inch and I think painting the bricks like that would look odd. I almost think I'd have to have mortar added to make it less "deep" before painting.
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Posted on 1/12/21 at 11:05 am to TDsngumbo
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My only problem with painting the bricks is that the mortar between the bricks is inset a good 3/4 of an inch and I think painting the bricks like that would look odd.
My brick is like this and we painted it. Very wide and deep grout. Looks great! Once painted you really can't tell. We were in a similar boat. Orangey brick with red roof built in the 70s. Hail storm allowed us to change roof to a variegated grey and painted a light cream (almost white) color. Made such a difference!
Posted on 1/12/21 at 11:48 am to TDsngumbo
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My home was built in the 1970s and the brick is a tanish brownish color. I hate it. The roof is also brown shingles, which I can't stand. As soon as we get a hail storm that requires a new roof, I'm going with a grey shingle like my previous home and will likely paint the bricks an off white or cream color. My only problem with painting the bricks is that the mortar between the bricks is inset a good 3/4 of an inch and I think painting the bricks like that would look odd. I almost think I'd have to have mortar added to make it less "deep" before painting.
We had the same issue and went with a lime wash product Romabio. Our brick and mortar were both a salmon color. The brush that Romabio recommends and sells, while expense, makes it very easy to get into the mortar. Plus you don’t have to be very detailed when applying the product as you’ll be randomly washing a portion of it off. We did it 2 yrs ago and we’ve been extremely happy with it.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 6:02 pm to TDsngumbo
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My only problem with painting the bricks is that the mortar between the bricks is inset a good 3/4 of an inch and I think painting the bricks like that would look odd. I almost think I'd have to have mortar added to make it less "deep" before painting.
Yep. We had the same dilemma.
We just built a rather large outdoor kitchen. We couldn’t match the existing brick on our house so we’re planning on painting all brick on the outdoor kitchen and the house. I had our masons sack the mortar on the outdoor kitchen.
I realized how shitty it looks when 60s or 70s brick with deep mortar joints look when painted. So I paid some good money for the masons to fill and sack every mortar joint on my house so the brickwork will look the same when I paint all the brick on the house and outdoor kitchen.
Posted on 1/15/21 at 9:06 am to TDsngumbo
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My home was built in the 1970s and the brick is a tanish brownish color. I hate it. The roof is also brown shingles, which I can't stand
Do we live in the same house?
I'm with you. I hate the brown shingles, it makes it where you can't change up anything until you change the roof.
I want black roof, grey house, black shutters with white trim.
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