Houses? Painted, plain brick or flinted?

[Zak33]

What's your preference?

Dya like your house painted or just brick, pebble dashed, or flint fronted.. wood clad?

Just wondered what you liked.. and more important.. hate

[TAKTAK]

Depends on the house/surroundings...

[Rob_B]

What random brain-fart made you think up this thread?!

[dave87]

Brick all the way. Well, that or Stone Cornered with a rendered middle - can look very impressive

[MadduckUK]

What's your preference?

Dya like your house painted or just brick, pebble dashed, or flint fronted.. wood clad?

Just wondered what you liked.. and more important.. hate

why do you never bother to give your own preference? are we deciding things for you or something?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

How about a nice brown colour like the majestic Moose!

[oolon]

I like a nice plain brick, London yellow stock is rather nice when aged. However the previous owner of my house decided pebble dash was the thing and covered it up... Well at least it was not stone cladding! Pebble dashing is a terrible thing to do to a terraced house. Personally I think the only reason why wall should be rendered is if there is a problem with the brick work and that is also why people should be careful as the seller could be trying to cover something up.

[Nikomus]

Pebble dashing is a terrible thing to do to a terrence

Most Terrences don't appreciate it :-p

[Tumble]

My house is timber-framed, so it's flat rendered on the outside.. there is a combination of styles though, in a pattern up our road, seems to be half brick, flat, full brick render, but only on the front. All the houses are identical at the back. I'd prefer to be in one of the full brick ones - less to paint, but I like this house cos it's mine.

[Lucio]

My personal preference is for those big wooden American suburb style homes. The ones I hate most are those stupid pebble dashed unpainted houses you tend to get in seaside towns.

[Zhaoman]

Pebble dashing is disgusting... It looks horrible and it's all flaky and just ugh!

Plain, well laid brick can look very majestic (polished bricks even feel like velvet to the touch drool!)

Timber cladding can look amazing on the right projects but not for a terraced house. More something standalone with space and/or approach to appreciate it from. Timber is cheap and easy to work with and can look just effortlessly good.

Painting is always good but as with anything, if it's done with care and precision anything can look amazing. (Except pebble dashing...)

[scaryjim]

Canvas. It's so much nicer to just be able to take down your house and carry it to a better neighbourhood...

Or, in a more serious vein, (and assuming the house is made from brick in the first place) I'd prefer a plain brick house. Why mess about with fancy finished?

[Champman99]

I think Red Brick is generally the best look in urban environments, but in the country/mountains a wooden look is preferable

HEXUS.channels is crazy.... (/runs crying scared back to Hardware)

[Pob255]

Brick depends on the age of the brick, current brick are just far to uniform and look ugly, that and there's no real artistry in the laying.
Strangely eenough the low production regularity of older bricks, where they are never exactly the same size and the fireing was never even makes for a far nicer look.

Pebledash really needs to be painted and is, for a practical matter, far better and it gives the bricks a good protective layer.

But it does depend on the age of the house.

Stone cladding can look good when done right in the right situation, however all too often it's done badly in the wrong situation.
eg
A detached cottage out in the country, clad with real rough cut quarried stone would work.
A middle of the terrace house clad in fake concrete immatation stone cladding just looks stupid, out of place and hiddious.

[Bugbait]

Nothing beats a good quality brick for me. If you can't afford quality brick then render over cheap bricks I guess. Plain render, not the "textured" kind that looks like a bunch of kids spit balled your house. Although I'm a fan of nice wood finishes and large windows too.

[Salazaar]

I'd agree that it depends on the surroundings. My parents have a yellowish render to pebble dashing, which looks okay on that street. Mine's clad with a combination of red brick and cotswold stone, which looks quite nice in a slightly cheesy way.

For preference I prefer a combination of wood cladding and and a light render but that would look fairly odd next to most of the buildings in my village!

Going slightly OT, wasn't someone on here planning to build their own house a while back...?