Nooks and Cronies

The stucco is up; the kitchen nook looks great...but the brick is ugly.

From the side:

From the back:

In the kitchen:

One of these things is not like the other. Unless you're colorblind or reading this blog on a b&w computer, you'll notice the new bricks don't match the old bricks. We knew the pallette we picked out wasn't going to be a perfect match, but this isn't even close: There's more orange here than in a pumpkin patch. At GC's suggestion, we've hired NawKaw (www.nawkaw.com) to stain the new bricks to match the old ones (cha ching!). A nice young man from Naukaw came by this ffffrrrrreeeeezzzing morning to get started, but it was too cold to get much done. I'll report more on this as the events unfold.

Comments

[Carol]

Other than the brick color, the addition looks fantastic. It doesn't even look like an addition. Nice job.

[adrienne]

Carol,
Thank you so much-I think it looks great too. This may sound strange, but it feels like the house is happy with how it looks, too!
Adrienne

[Barnaby Jones]

Nice blog. Even nicer house.

I'm sure the brick will look great in the end. But I have a question if you don't mind...on the addition, why did you not go to the same height as the brick on the original portion of the house?

[adrienne]

Hi Barnaby! I love your username! ... To answer your question about the bricks. Let me see if I can explain this correctly...Our architect used the varying brick height so that it wouldn't look like we were trying too hard to make the new addition look like it had always been there. Does this make sense? It was good that he took this tactic, given that we couldn't find a good match for the bricks. I liked your blog, too! The kitchen looks great.

[Barnaby Jones]

Thanks for the reply. I was curious if it had to do something with the foundation (like maybe the weight of the bricks going higher up on the addition would somehow put too much weight on the new foundation). The architect's rationale makes perfect sense.