Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?
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@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
Laura and I have seen probably 50-ish homes so far trying to find the right one for us and a lot of them have really ugly brick. I did some research and found that one way to resolve this is to stain the brick. You apparently can stain brick to an almost white. This would make some of the houses we've seen somewhat more viable, but none of my friends who are homeowners have attempted this.
Neighbors across the street painted their brick. Twice, because the wife decided it was too light of a grey after a year.
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@JaredBusch said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
Laura and I have seen probably 50-ish homes so far trying to find the right one for us and a lot of them have really ugly brick. I did some research and found that one way to resolve this is to stain the brick. You apparently can stain brick to an almost white. This would make some of the houses we've seen somewhat more viable, but none of my friends who are homeowners have attempted this.
Neighbors across the street painted their brick. Twice, because the wife decided it was too light of a grey after a year.
Laura: I think it's too light of a grey
Me: You should stain it the color you want then -
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@JaredBusch said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
Laura and I have seen probably 50-ish homes so far trying to find the right one for us and a lot of them have really ugly brick. I did some research and found that one way to resolve this is to stain the brick. You apparently can stain brick to an almost white. This would make some of the houses we've seen somewhat more viable, but none of my friends who are homeowners have attempted this.
Neighbors across the street painted their brick. Twice, because the wife decided it was too light of a grey after a year.
Laura: I think it's too light of a grey
Me: You should stain it the color you want thenPainted. Not stained.
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@JaredBusch said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@JaredBusch said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
Laura and I have seen probably 50-ish homes so far trying to find the right one for us and a lot of them have really ugly brick. I did some research and found that one way to resolve this is to stain the brick. You apparently can stain brick to an almost white. This would make some of the houses we've seen somewhat more viable, but none of my friends who are homeowners have attempted this.
Neighbors across the street painted their brick. Twice, because the wife decided it was too light of a grey after a year.
Laura: I think it's too light of a grey
Me: You should stain it the color you want thenPainted. Not stained.
Let's not get too specific when the real goal here is bashing our wives
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@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@DustinB3403 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
While I agree he is using a stain, he's painting the stain on.
Also F doing that by hand, I'd rather buy a house that matched what I wanted than waste a weekend doing that and getting the stink eye from the wife on the one spot I fell off the ladder and messed up the no so perfect line.
Yeah It's just absorbed into the brick from my understanding. Seems everyone does it this way from what I can see
How else could it be done? Dunking the whole wall in a bucket the size of the grand canyon?
Finger painting
Finger PAINTING. You see?
Bwahahaha
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@scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@DustinB3403 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
While I agree he is using a stain, he's painting the stain on.
Also F doing that by hand, I'd rather buy a house that matched what I wanted than waste a weekend doing that and getting the stink eye from the wife on the one spot I fell off the ladder and messed up the no so perfect line.
Yeah It's just absorbed into the brick from my understanding. Seems everyone does it this way from what I can see
How else could it be done? Dunking the whole wall in a bucket the size of the grand canyon?
Finger painting
Finger PAINTING. You see?
Bwahahaha
You could also drink it and spit it at the brick like something out of temple of doom. Never not an option
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@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@DustinB3403 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
While I agree he is using a stain, he's painting the stain on.
Also F doing that by hand, I'd rather buy a house that matched what I wanted than waste a weekend doing that and getting the stink eye from the wife on the one spot I fell off the ladder and messed up the no so perfect line.
Yeah It's just absorbed into the brick from my understanding. Seems everyone does it this way from what I can see
How else could it be done? Dunking the whole wall in a bucket the size of the grand canyon?
Finger painting
Finger PAINTING. You see?
Bwahahaha
You could also drink it and spit it at the brick like something out of temple of doom. Never not an option
Modern art.
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@wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller y'all know that paint sprayers exist, right?
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We've discussed painting/staining our exterior brick. It's just sort of bland and I think lightening it with a white or something would give it more curb appeal. Painting/staining brick is commonly done on these HGTV remodel shows.
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@RojoLoco said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
@wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller y'all know that paint sprayers exist, right?
But you can't get the brick and grout two different colors with paint sprayers.
You could, do one big coat for the overall and go back and touch each inch of grout by hand, but still that's a huge pain in the ass no matter what.
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@zachary715 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:
We've discussed painting/staining our exterior brick. It's just sort of bland and I think lightening it with a white or something would give it more curb appeal. Painting/staining brick is commonly done on these HGTV remodel shows.
It's a cheap way to spruce up a house for sure.
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Especially in a sea of red brick exterior homes, where when you drive down the street it's just brick house after brick house.
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I like brick homes. But, that is probably because they are so rare here. Brick doesn't do very well in earthquakes. We have tons of stucco. I hate stucco.
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@wrx7m there is a reason that stucco rhymes with suck-o.
