re: painted white brick homes

Happens here in Bham as well. About 3-4 years ago, someone bought a large plot of undeveloped land, and they have plans to put 40 house on 17 acres. Big houses, small lots. Almost half of them are completed now and a good many of those are painted brick. At least not all the same color, but I think there are only a few with natural brick on them. Lots of siding on the upper floors, so it is all painted the same color. The siding looks good, the brick will probably not in a few years.

I also think contractors must be pushing it. More money in it for them to paint. Our house was built in the late 60s, and has brick on the first floor, and siding on the top floor in the back and on the sides. We recently had a screened porch and office built onto the back to replace the old deck, and our contractor kept mentioning painting the brick under the deck roof. We left it natural, and told him we liked the natural brick look. Must have mentioned it 2-3 different times. I finally got him off my back by telling him if we're going to paint, it would be all of the brick, and he quit mentioning it. I guess he didn't want to do the whole house and was just trying to squeeze a little more out of this project.