Bricks, bricks, bricks

Choosing the brick colour for my house was probably the hardest decision of the whole build. Why? Well with every other little detail I know what I want, or I at least have ideas floating around in my head. With the bricks however, I had no idea, no clue at all.

Now the bricks is a pretty big decision, it’s the whole look of your house. Maybe that’s why I was so indecisive, because I knew it was kind of a big deal if I got it wrong. I would have to live with this choice everyday, its not one that could be changed later unless you did something drastic. There was also the cost to consider. I was not real keen on spending more money to upgrade bricks, so I was eager to select something from my builders standard range.

I looked over the brochures I had been given, trying to pick a few out that I liked. But it was pretty hopeless as I knew they would look drastically different in real life.

So a few weeks back I went down to the local PGH brick display center for the first time. It was really fantastic with all the different brick colours and styles on display walls. It was interesting how the colours also looked different depending on the light or shade or direction they were facing. Also the colour of the grout seemed to have a big effect. I narrowed my selection down to 5 colours, and they let me take some samples home, woohoo!

My top 5 = Caffe Latte, Plateau, Canyon, Vanilla Ice and Oyster. 

Quite a variety really. A few mid browns, a dark brown, a grey and a white.

Another week or so past, and I eventually whittled it down to my two favorites, Plateau -the dark red-ish brown and Oyster the grey brick.

I kept leaning towards Plateau as I had seen quite a few dark brown houses around and knew I like it, but I was a bit worried that plateau would come out a bit too red.
Oyster was hard as I couldn't find any houses in my local area with anything that resembled a grey brick so had to go for a long drive and eventually found a few.
Oyster felt more risky than Plateau, but also would suit my whole love of grey thing I have going on, and it would compliment my interior plans really well.

Eventually I had thought about it so much, going back and forth between the two colours, it was doing my head in. You know sometimes when you think sooo much that you start to not even care. Well that was me. I needed to make a decision and just go with it. I knew either colour would look great anyway.

So.......I went with the grey, Oyster it is!!  Lets hope it turns out ok.