Brick house cladding design: design options

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Exterior design, design nuances

The design of brick cladding at home can be done today with modern materials. There is a special facing brick, which is used for such works, and there are its imitations, which in their advantages are practically not inferior to the original.

Which buildings are subject to mandatory external decoration

At the moment, building a house is not difficult. All this is due to the large amount of building material, which is not only available at its cost, but also has excellent properties and characteristics.
Compulsory decoration can be exposed at home from:

• Foam blocks (seeFoam houses: outdoor decoration - a variety of options).
• Aerated concrete.
• Shellfish.
• Monolith.

Note.
If the house is built with bricks, finishing work outside can be carried out, but you can leave everything in its original form. It depends on what kind of brick was used during construction.

There is a very large selection of such material:

• Refractory brick.
• Facing.
• Basement and so on.

Features:

• If the facing has a beautiful appearance and most often it is laid with the use of a decorative seam, then all other types are rougher.
• The design of the cladding of a house made of brick can be using not one, but several finishing materials.
• For example, a facing brick perfectly combines with a natural or decorative stone.
• You can simply use the wood trim in the form of an outdoor block house, plastic panels or siding.

Everyone chooses the best option for themselves. The price of all materials is different, as well as their different functional capabilities.

What materials can be used for facing a house under a brick

Choose material for home decoration

There are several types of brick home decoration:

• The use of directly facing bricks.
• Using decorative brick.
• Plastic panels on the surface of which there is an imitation of masonry.
• Professional flooring in sheets with a similar design and so on.

The most popular are the use of facing and decorative bricks.

Facing brick and its properties, characteristics

The design of houses made of facing bricks can be made in different shades. The whole reason is the various types of this material.
The name of the facing brick already speaks for itself, it is used for the exterior decoration of any building. In this case, any design of the house is used with a facing brick.
Features:

• The material has a variety of shades, which allows you to originally design the structure from the outside. The most popular colors are red and white.
• To refine the finish, a black decorative seam is used during masonry. The color shade of the concrete solution is given by a special coloring pigment, which is added during its manufacture.
• See the photo with an example of decorative masonry of facing bricks.

Facing brick

The surface of the facing brick can be of three types:

• Chopped.
• With imitation of wild stone.
• Smooth (brick has perfectly even proportions).

Note.
As for the dimensions, this material is no different in such parameters from ordinary building bricks.Regarding weight, we can say that it is several times lighter, since in most cases it is hollow.

Despite this, the facing brick has good properties, it:

• Moisture resistant, as it is not able to absorb moisture and various kinds of pollution.
• Practical and versatile, due to the fact that it is used for decoration of any complexity and with any region.
• Frost-resistant, as it is not afraid of very low temperatures and does not collapse.
• Wear-resistant - does not change its original appearance throughout the entire time.
• Long-lasting, since its service life can reach 50-80 years (like a regular building stone).
• Easy to install - this applies to experienced builders and finishers to a greater extent, but with high-quality recommendations, it can be done with your own hands.
• Not afraid of direct sunlight, since under its influence does not fade and does not change its structure.

Tip. The wear resistance that is inherent in a facing brick directly depends on its quality. It is because of this that when buying such a finishing material, you should ask the seller for a product certificate and check the material itself for quality.

As for the stylistic direction, the brick can be used in any of them.
There are very beautiful houses made of facing bricks, which are made in the styles:

• Classicism.
• Gothic.
• Baroque.
• Hi-tech and others.

How a house is made using facing brick

Features:

• Design of houses with facing bricks can be performed using natural natural material - stone. There is a wide variety of species, which in their technical properties are similar to facing bricks and with their help some elements of the building are decorated. From this it does not look scattered in the finish.
• There are beautiful houses not fully lined with bricks, but only slopes of windows, doorways, basement floors and more. This type of finish is used, usually in combination with decorative plaster.
• Based on numerous recommendations on the choice of material and advice on its installation, installation is carried out independently without much difficulty. The only thing to consider is that the weight of the brick must withstand the foundation, which is initially poured under the finish along with the main one.

Tip. If during the construction the use of brick cladding was not yet foreseen, then without fail it is necessary to fill in the additional foundation, which may be a little less depth, but connected with the main one.

The laying of the facing brick can be seen in the video.

Decorative brick and its properties, methods of application

Properties of decorative bricks

Facing facades with decorative bricks is not less common than using simple front bricks.
What is a decorative brick:

• Decorative brick is a material whose surface in its appearance very much resembles directly a brick.
• This can be not just a separate element, but entire panels with the image of masonry.

Such material can be made from:

• Pottery.
• Artificial stone.
• Plastic.
• Metal and stuff.

Ceramic decorative brick

A beautiful brick cladding of a house using ceramics looks not only original, but also very attractive. The decorative brick in this case is a clay dough plate that has undergone one or two firing. Its surface is protected by a special tool.
She may be:

• Smooth or embossed.
• Glossy, glazed, matte.

Characteristics:

• The size of the tile, as a rule, corresponds to the parameters of the brick. Thickness varies between 0.3-0.6 mm.
• There may also be ceramic tiles with brickwork. In most cases, they are double-fired and have special strength and thickness.
  Their size can be any and very often they are used to decorate the basement.
• Here it is worth considering that such material can only be mounted on a flat surface, since its back side is also flat.

Tip. Ceramic decorative bricks are best fixed to the surface using a mortar of concrete without sand impurities. You can add special glue to it for greater finish strength.

All this is due to the weight of the material, which is quite large. Installation instructions do not exist, but these are just recommendations from experienced craftsmen.

Decorative brick made of artificial stone

Model of decorative brick

Facing a house with decorative brick made of artificial stone is also very popular today. If earlier an artificial conglomerate could only be in a certain performance, then at the moment it has a large selection of imitations and designs, which makes it possible to use it in any finishing work.
Decorative brick made of artificial stone can be made of:

• Gypsum.
• Acrylic
• Synthetic material.
• Concrete.
• Sand.
• With admixtures of crumbs of natural agglomerate and so on.

So:

• In order to look the brickwork of the house in an original design, with the use of artificial stone can be any.
• The sizes of their artificial brick decorative stone can be standard and correspond to the parameters of the brick itself, and can be in the form of plates, the sizes of which can reach 1-1.5-2 m.

The surface of the decorative brick:

• Smooth.
• Matt
• Glossy.
• Torn.
• Embossed.

Facing the facade with decorative brick has its advantages:

• Its cost is several times lower than when using facing brick.
• Has a greater selection of colors and imitations.
• It is characterized by durability, since the life of an artificial stone is 10-15 years.
• Practical, as it is not able to absorb dirt and dust and is very easy to clean.
• Reliable and durable, it freely withstands quite large loads (in the case of mounting various decorative elements on it - forging and other things).
• Does not absorb moisture.
• It is frost-resistant, as it can withstand temperatures up to -30-50 degrees and at the same time the structure of the material is not destroyed.
• It does not fade in the sun, which makes it possible to maintain an attractive external finish for the entire life of the material.
• Wear-resistant - the surface of the decorative brick is protected by a special tool.

Tip. This type of material can be mounted exclusively on a flat surface, which is quite well prepared (cleaned).

For installation, an adhesive or cement mortar is used. It all depends on the size of the brick and its mass.