Damn Bricks

Seems we have been talked out of Moroka/render of the house. So back to the brick displays it is. Turns out, bricks aren't much cheaper!

We have always said that if we do brick, it will be a darker one. At first we loved Pewter, but the $16k price is a little hard to love.

Pewter

Next, we thought we loved Espresso. But after further (and further and further etc) inspection, I now realise I didn't. Actually, I think it looks a little cheap. No offence to the people who have it. I'm sure it looks good for you... But the thing that worries me is that it is an orange brick underneath. So whenever the brick chips and scratches, you can see bright orange. Plus, on the display and even on display homes we have visited, it looks dirty and needs a clean to get streaks of white off it.

Espresso

My wife was convinced that Espresso would look good if there was a feature brick at the front in a lighter colour. She picked Sorbetto, which was part of the included range. I am not a huge fun of the two colour look in brick. I think it has the potential to look cheap/bogan (I say potential, cause if you already have it, I'm sure it looks great at your place). Fortunately, the way the display is set up, I could get a photo of the two colours. Result? Yep, don't like it. Sorry honey.

Espresso with Sorbetto behind

Then, my wife wondered if maybe we like Sorbetto as the main brick. Her rationale here was that we were probably going to go something around that colour if we rendered, so why shouldn't we look at it if we are going brick. The lovely people at the PGH display place informed us that this class of brick is designed to give an appearance of render, so maybe that would be a good option? So we went out to the display home at Oran Park. To see a full house of a brick gives such a different perspective than just looking at a single wall of brick.

House in Sorbetto at Oran Park

I'm still not sure though. Didn't I want a darker colour? So now, I think we now love Blue Steel Flash.

Blue Steel Flash

But, even this one poses problems. Firstly, I am not sure about coming home everyday to a house that is giving me the Blue Steel look .

Secondly, it carries with it a $8500 price tag. This certainly surprised the lady at the PGH brick display when we told her. She gave us the price list and the price difference between Blue Steel and Espresso, per 1000 bricks is negligible. The price difference to Eden Brae? $8k. I look forward to finding out why?

But, at this stage, I despite these concerns, I think that Blue Steel Flash is the brick of choice. We only have  a little of time to confirm it though, so I am a little nervous. I've built myself a little wall at home at look at it everyday, just to make sure I still love it. I haven't knocked it over yet, so I guess I still do..

Mini Blue Steel Flash Tower

So now, we have so many bags of brick samples from the display at our current place. I was becoming a little concerned about what I was going to do with them all, but I have since discovered that it is about 5000 bricks to a house. So I will head back out there about 1000 more times, and I will have all the bricks I need. I don't want to alert them to my master plan, so I will be taking various styles, so I can't say the final product will look great, but at least no one else in the street will have the same look....

All the brick samples

But, the brick indecision does mean that all of our external selections are out. We had picked based on a render/moroka in a lighter colour. Does this mean I have to go back? Oh well, another day off work and with any luck, more cupcakes......