Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 06, 2007 7:50 pm Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 4Nov 06, 2007 8:41 pm Building again . . with Redink Pre-start 04/12 Keys - 03/13 Finishing off. . . Painting/Floor Tiles/Carpet - 04/13 Walk In Robe/Lighting/Blinds and Moving 05/13 Gates/Front Landscaping / Pool 05/13 Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 8Nov 06, 2007 9:33 pm Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 10Nov 06, 2007 9:59 pm Stormy Fantastic Matt! I was going to search through the forum looking for 'brick' threads, but you have saved me the trouble! We are now getting pretty sick of 'drive by's' studying people's rooves/gutters/bricks/garages etc...too many to choose from! We looked at Selkirks' Tawney Heritage again today, but I feel it is a little too on the tan side for the look we want to achieve. I'll probably head out to Boral again this week and take more pics of the bricks I'm interested in, but at this stage it appears Borals' 'Rattan' is high on the list after one 'drive by' yesterday (and again today...and probably tomorrow as well! ) If you want to see a "rattan" finished with Classic Cream and Jasper combination PM me for an address. We are about 5 minutes from Boral in Scoresby. Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 11Nov 06, 2007 10:04 pm well we are far from choosing our bricks as we havent even chosen our builder yet! But we know what we like and have done many a drive by looking at houses with the style/colour we want....here is an example
we want a dark brick with a light contrasting mortar and we will also look at silver or white aluminuim (awning) windows - we are also going to match this up with a light colored colourbond roof - maybe white, silver or creamy - should make for a nice sharp contrast!! Oh and I LOVE bmp's large bricks...we havent ruled them out yet, but they are second on the list! Oh and as it is so early in the piece....I reserve the right to change my mind....many times over!!! Ruth -Bought house in Melbourne inner burbs, knocked it down & now...we are owner builders! Completed OB project and moved in to our new home with our new baby in May 2009! Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 12Nov 06, 2007 10:09 pm We chose Austral's Hawthorn with off white mortar.
We liked it the 1st time we saw it in one of our builder's display homes. It's a category 3 bricks, thus, an upgrade. http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc22/venielynnr/P2240007.jpg ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built the Nevada 42 Next project - landscaping! Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 13Nov 06, 2007 10:31 pm Great topic which I'm watching closely as we have to choose bricks very soon - I want something really dark with white mortar too Ruth - hope our houses aren't too close! Fi has moved in!! Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 14Nov 07, 2007 6:34 am We have Austral bricks - Homestead 'Tan' with off white mortar, we are really happy with them.
Our neighbours across the road have used Austral - Element 'zinc', they look fantastic ! Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 15Nov 07, 2007 8:33 am http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/firthy26/colourchips.jpg
These were the ones on the display house. It was good to see them on the finished product instead of trying to choose from just ONE brick & visualising How they would look on a whole wall / house. To be honest, we probably would have chose them anyway even if we didn't see them on the display house. Cheers, Mike. My Blog... http://ahouseonthehill.blogspot.com/ Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 16Nov 07, 2007 1:52 pm Boral - Coral Stone, Natural Mortar. We had to choose a Boral brick and didnt like any of them!!! So ended up with this boral brick from WA. When we chose it the only house it was on in Victoria was in Torquay
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Built Porter Davis "Dromana" 2007. Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 19Nov 07, 2007 2:32 pm Im pretty sure they're 3-dimensional. I'll check with my builder and get back to you. No the fireplace doesn’t work. It’s been enclosed. I’m not sure what was removed, as it was done quite some time ago - well before what I can see with photos online… 2 11585 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair to do it properly you need to dig out the garden and waterproof the outside of the wall. There are some products you can put on the face of the bricks but the water is… 2 4624 |