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Pavers, Thin Brick, and our own expert play roles in reviving an 1887 Victorian
This season’s This Old House project on PBS had a comeback story to tell – and as it turned out, Pine Hall Brick Company had both an acting and a speaking role in the telling. Above photo: This Old House/Zach DilgardThe story centers on an 1887 Victorian in Glen...
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Old school and new school for brick and stone success
An enterprising entrepreneur brings older masons into the company, using their expertise for needed repairs, hardscape projects, and exterior enhancements with brick and stone.All photos: Schyler RicherzhagenInstalling brick and stone is an art. Done right, it’s a...
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How to build a patio or walkway with no-cut paver patterns
A small no-cut paver patio or walkway is a straightforward do-it-yourself job. We have a guide called The Seven Simple Steps that covers all you need to know to complete the project. Although the first step in the Seven Steps is calculating the materials you need, we...
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An architect designed his own home. Cruz Built was thrilled to get the job, fancy geometry and all
Custom builder Cruz Built brushed up on his geometry and chose English Edge Autumn pavers by Pine Hall Brick Company and natural Tennessee stone in this unusual porch project in the Sedgefield Country Club neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina.Cruz Built owner...
Brookstown pavers revive outdoor living space for family, friends, and concerts
A Brookstown Full Range hardscape blends clay pavers, stone, and reclaimed brick in an established Greensboro neighborhoodResidential hardscapes often begin as a blank canvas, with open space, straight lines and right angles. But sometimes they are a little funkier,...
Real Hardscapes & Landscape create a “forever garden” with pavers, water, and illumination
For this backyard retreat, the landscape designer chose our Pathway Full Range pavers. The homeowner got a wonderful backyard to enjoy in retirement, and for the designer, it wasn’t a hard sell at all. It also looks great at night.The idea was to build a place where a...
Pine Hall Brick Company pavers chosen again for PBS’s This Old House project in Boston
This time, Pathway Autumn pavers are chosen for a walkway and patio project for This Old House, filmed in December 2025 and scheduled to be shown nationally on PBS stations from January through mid-April of 2026. The pavers, with color all the way through, consistent...
Older towns have historic stories to tell on streets paved in genuine clay pavers
Pine Hall Brick’s English Edge® Full Range pavers were used to bring a design both new and old to a historic Maryland port town, on the Chesapeake Bay. (All photos courtesy Interlock Paving Company.)To call Havre de Grace a historic place is something of an...
PlantScapes Landscape & Design updates older home’s outdoor space without losing its original charm
Rumbled® Full Range clay pavers create a custom outdoor living space that blends naturally with an older brick home and existing stone walls.When homeowners with a mid-century Raleigh, NC, home set out to update their backyard, they had one clear directive: create a...
Couple gets patio inspiration from watching “This Old House”
Patio project at Boston-area home inspired by West Roxbury project; couple walked by and saw it in person, then used same Pine Hall Brick Rumbled® Beale Street pavers, same designer, and the same installation team to add outside living space to their home. All new...
Mason’s unique residential work shows the versatility of a single paver style: Rumbled® Main Street
CJ DiGiammarino of DiGiammarino Hardscape & Masonry orders Pine Hall Brick Company’s Rumbled® Main Street paver a lot. He specifies it for a unique range of residential projects in historic Massachusetts towns. Homeowners 'round these parts love it.Take one Pine...
Boston City Hall Plaza – A five-acre clay paver hardscape welcomes everyone
The new Boston City Hall Plaza uses acres of clay pavers to provide a durable walking surface, tie together visual elements to provide a seamless design, and ensure full access to those using wheelchairs or strollers. Pine Hall Brick pavers used are Pathway Full Range...
The 49th Acre: A landmark outdoor venue anchored in English Edge® clay pavers at UNC Charlotte
A three-acre park that creates a game-day environment of excitement and celebration at the University of North Carolina Charlotte melds with the university campus, using its official paver, English Edge® Full Range. Installed by Metrolina Landscape. All photos by...
Mid-century modern home office adds more parking by using StormPave™ permeable pavers
A work-from-home counselor specified Pine Hall Brick StormPave™ Rumbled® Full Range pavers for her new driveway, because water-permeable materials mean the city will allow a larger driveway under the regulations, where her clients can park their cars off a busy...
Earth, water, fire, brick – Landscape architect plant tour presents our sustainable manufacturing process
Sustainable products and practices have become significant factors in designing commercial, municipal, and residential hardscapes. So, we were thrilled to offer a tour of our Madison, NC, plant to landscape architects attending the North Carolina Chapter of the...
Earth friendly and naturally green, our facebrick and pavers bring sustainability to every job
Being green is a way of life for Pine Hall Brick Company. It’s the essence of our products and the way we make them. It’s our company. It is part of everything we do. Architects, builders, landscapers, and paving professionals can promote sustainability with...
Newly added Rumbled® pavers keep it real on Dunedin’s old brick streets
Dunedin, Florida, embraces and promotes its history. To that end, updating and maintaining its century-old brick paver streets is a commitment that pays off.The City of Dunedin (pronounced dah-NEED-in), Florida, takes its history seriously. That’s pretty apparent when...
English Edge® Full Range pavers boost school spirit in Greenwich, Connecticut
A recently completed $20 million stadium in Greenwich, Connecticut benefits from 4,100 square feet of Pine Hall Brick English Edge® Full Range pavers at the main entrance gate and in patios seating areas adjacent to the field. ABOVE PHOTO: KG+D Architects, PC and...
Winter is the time to plan for spring hardscape projects, to improve home value, say experts
Hardscape preparation involves some digging, mud, and mess. But you'll be glad you did when spring arrives and you can enjoy your new outdoor space.Had enough? We’re talking about winter. It's cold. Snowy. Icy. And it’s cold some more. And it lasts for weeks, slows...
Forever home gets a forever patio
The owners call this 1933 classic in Concord, Massachusetts their “forever home.” So landscape designer Dan Gladu of Roots & Rocks Landscape Artisans designed the outdoor living space with our Rumbled® Full Range brick pavers to stand the test of time and...
In Savannah’s Riverside District, Southern hospitality takes place in renovated buildings, outdoor spaces
Clay pavers from Pine Hall Brick Company are used in a combination of our Rumbled® Cocoa and Rumbled® Red as a renovated power plant anchors an effort across a historic Georgia city.In Savannah, if you look up, you are likely to see any number of historic buildings...
What’s new is old again as Rumbled® clay pavers bring aesthetics, durability to Savannah’s streets
Broughton Streetscape, the first of three sites planned for renovation, makes extensive use of Pine Hall Brick Company’s Rumbled® Pavers in a unique color mix of 70 percent Cocoa and 30 percent Red. All photos by Harold Beaty.In downtown Savannah, Georgia, going new...
An artful pattern of clay pavers welcomes patrons to a new cultural center
Cain Center for the Arts in Cornelius, North Carolina was built with brick as both cladding and as an expansive entrance plaza and patio. Pine Hall Brick clay pavers are laid in an intricate pattern of sizes and colors that form an elliptical design that befits the...
Rumbled® Cocoa clay pavers help repurpose and revive a historic estate as a beautiful public park
An 1870-era mansion in Lancaster, Pennsylvania has a storied history, but its latest iteration wasn’t working well, so some changes needed to be made. Clay pavers made a big difference and enhanced the park's first impression. (All photos: Donovan Lefever)Stauffer...
Former manse gets a stylish paver walkway befitting its place in the community
Pine Hall Brick Rumbled® Full Range clay pavers and Pennsylvania bluestone are used to complement a century old manse in New Jersey, in keeping with its church, the surrounding neighbors, as well as the entire town. Photo: Joe Palimeno.There’s a lot to be said for...
Pavers and Thin Brick for a generational home project on This Old House
A generational home project in Glen Ridge, NJ, uses pavers and Thin Brick supplied by Pine Hall Brick Company for the PBS series This Old House. This time, it's an impressive makeover of a family home that includes replacing a concrete walkway with pavers and refaces...
The Brick Kid helps Portsmouth set a standard for streetscapes with Pathway Full Range
Pathway Full Range clay pavers bring continuity to a scenic seaport, and it looks like it’s becoming the look to have, up and down the New England coast. Above image: Brick Market, Portsmouth, NH. All photos: Ben Cyr.The Brick Kid figures he’s installed about a...
Clay pavers create attractive, functional speed tables in Lawrenceville, Georgia
As suburban towns evolve, residential development emerges in central business districts, bringing more vehicles and pedestrians. Lawrenceville, Georgia, is one such suburb, 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, where you can see this happening. And forward-thinking urban...
Demand grows for water permeable paving and clay pavers do a great job
The use of clay permeable pavers – like Pine Hall Brick Company’s StormPave – is gaining momentum in both commercial and residential uses, which was the subject of a recent story in Stormwater Solutions magazine by Pine Hall Brick Company president and CEO Walt...
Hilary Farr, host of “Love It Or List It,” earned Hardscape North America award for her paver walkway – one of five Pine Hall Brick winners at HNA
Hilary Farr, host of “Love It Or List It,” designed an award winning entry that won first place recognition for Farr and Pine Hall Brick Company in the Clay Brick – Residential category of the Hardscape North America (HNA) Awards at the organization’s annual...
Anakeesta nature immersive theme park enhanced with Pine Hall Brick clay pavers
A one-of-a-kind theme park designed by a landscape architect needed a weather-durable, aesthetically pleasing hardscape. This called for acres of Pine Hall Brick clay pavers. All photos: Austin Martin.When a 100-plus-acre nature immersive theme park atop a mountain in...
Historic West Bottoms has a historic stormwater management plan with 3.4 acres of StormPave™
West Bottoms – In a lush newly created greenspace, runoff from rooftops and buildings flows to a bioswale and bioretention area surrounded by park-like landscape features that include a trail and native trees, shrubs, and grasses. StormPave™ water permeable pavers...
Two dogs, a baby, and a patchy lawn? Try synthetic turf and clay pavers
In a storied and architectually significant neighborhood, Pine Hall Brick Rumbled® Pavers merge with some modern aesthetics vastly improve a backyard in need of some TLC. (All photos courtesy Hans Kalkofen.)Hans Kalkofen and Eric Hanson are owners of Garden’s Edge...
“Jake” of all trades rehabs a narrow sloping courtyard with terraced paver patio
A terraced paver patio is key to making the most of a sloping, narrow yard of a home in Kalamazoo, Michigan. And it demnstrates the importance of thoughtful design to enhance beauty and function. (All photos courtesy Jake Grevenstuk.)Jake Grevenstuk’s Instagram handle...
We make a lot of different kinds of brick – filmmaker builder Roger Scheck uses all of them
Pathway Full Range Modular pavers to be set in mortar are installed in a basketweave pattern over a concrete pad with a wall of Hatteras Sand Oversized brick create an outdoor recreation space to complement a gameroom addition. All photos: Roger Scheck.From facebrick...
Hardscapes enhance property value, but even better, they make you happy
Lyon Landscape Nursery project in New Jersey pairs bluestone with clay pavers.The good news for homeowners is that new hardscape projects have a good return on investment when it comes time to sell, while providing an increased level of happiness for as long as they...
Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved wins Brick Industry Association Best in Class award
Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved, a memorial structure designed to recognize those men, women, and children, all enslaved, who built, operated, and maintained the historic campus of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, recently won Best in Class in the Brick...
“Lyon’s share” of landscaping includes a lot of Pennsylvania Bluestone
Alex Lyon has decades of hardscape installations that demonstrate how clay pavers outperform concrete. His company, Lyon Landscape Nursery in Franklin, Massachusetts, specializes in granite, bluestone, and paver designs, primarily for residential clients in greater...
Pine Hall Brick Company pavers used with “Ask This Old House” as neighbors help neighbors
Roz Pendleton is an anchor and a leader in her neighborhood. When Rebuilding Together Boston teamed up with our friends at "Ask This Old House" we were honored to provide pavers to the worthy project for homeowner Pendleton. Pictured above, L-R, landscaper Jenn...
Tunstall & Company relies on variety and versatility of our products to provide innovative solutions
A legacy patio porch had a problem. It sagged in the middle causing rainwater to form a big puddle. A skilled masonry contractor used Pine Hall Brick pavers in two thicknesses for a level-headed solution to smooth out the problem.The variety, versatility and...
Ask This Old House crew goes all out for Rebuilding Together Boston and we were happy to provide pavers
The good folks at the PBS program Ask This Old House took on a project with the community project Rebuilding Together Boston to build a new deck and install an spacious paver patio. Pine Hall Brick provided English Edge® Autumn Heavy Duty clay pavers for the job. All...
“Love It or List It” host Hilary Farr’s new-old home uses tumbled clay pavers to help set the scene
Pine Hall Brick played a role in this season’s premiere episode of the “Love It or List It” television series by providing Barker House facebrick and Rumbled® Bluffs pavers to a new home project.If Hilary Farr’s new home in a historic neighborhood in Raleigh tells a...
Hilary Farr, host of “Love It or List It,” builds a new energy efficient home using brick and radiant barrier house wrap
Pine Hall Brick played a role in this season’s premiere episode of the “Love It or List It” television series by providing Barker House facebrick and Rumbled® Bluffs pavers to a new home project.Old houses are charming. Until they aren’t. Then they can become very...