Ideas and Inspirations
Helpful articles and images from the Pine Hall Brick blog.
New Home Ideas
Tufts House brick perfect for English Revival cottage style
There's an English Revival cottage in Summerfield, North Carolina's Mitchell's Landing neighborhood. Brian Elliott, owner of B. Elliott Enterprises, got inspired by English Revival and French Provincial cottage styles and merged them both using Tufts House brick and...
For a versatile white brick, take a look at Villa Chase
What’s old is new with the Pine Hall Brick Augustine line of machine weathered brick. And one of the newest is Villa Chase, that debuted in the 2017 Parade of Homes. Since then, it’s taken off as a choice of custom builders and in new neighborhoods, where brick is...
Brick colors that capture the coast in Charleston Style & Design
Brick is a clay product made from shale, local to our region of North Carolina, but over the last century we've gotten good at blending and firing clay to achieve wide range of brick colors. New home trends are leaning toward lighter colors and the traditional red...
Hardscapes and Paving
Award-winning hardscape project uses Pine Hall Brick permeable pavers
A town park in Ambler, Pennsylvania uses an eye-catching pattern in permeable pavers to protect groundwater and tell the story of a stream used to provide water power for a leathermaking company beginning in the late 1700s.A project that used Pine Hall Brick Company...
An urban oasis – a clay paver patio built with Pine Hall Brick Beale Street pavers by This Old House
In late February, Pine Hall Brick clay pavers were ready once again for their closeup, as they were featured in a segment of the PBS program This Old House.Photo by: Anthony Tieuli.Rumbled Beale Street pavers were chosen for a “new old looking” patio as the ideal...
Installing pavers on their narrow edge yields a colorful linear driveway design
Vehicular hardscapes need to be durable, but can still be beautiful. Lancaster, PA distributor Penn Stone helped a home builder achieve such a paver driveway with a unique approach, pattern, and color scheme. (All photos: John McGrann.)It’s a lot more than a paver...
Planning and Design
How to pick the right brick and stone combination for your home
Picking the right brick and stone combination for your home can be an overwhelming process. There are so many colors of brick and stone that combinations can appear endless. This helpful three step guide walks you through the process of selecting the right stone for...
Brick: A better choice for fire safety
Making a choice for fire safetyHomebuilding is a business of balance. Introduction of vinyl siding and synthetic insulation in the 1960s as a substitute for brick and wood meant cost reductions for homebuilders. A third of all new homes sold today are wrapped in...
Thin brick is in
You can never be too thin. The problem with interior designers, landscape architects, paver installers, brick masons and the like is that thin is sometimes hard to come by. Not talking diet and exercise here – talking bricks and a trend toward slimming them down. Thin...
DIY Corner
Octogenarian couple installs 25,000-paver driveway
Keep up with the Watsons? Start with 25,000 pavers Wilda Watson can tell you exactly how many Pine Hall Brick Company standard clay pavers it takes to fill a 1990s-vintage Little Tikes wagon. Eighteen. In October, Wilda hauled her last load of 18 pavers in that wagon,...
Transform your interior with a brick floor using PaverTiles
Our new PaverTiles allow homeowners to have a true brick floor in just about any room in your home. In the past if homeowners wanted a brick floor, they had to install full thickness brick or clay pavers, but their size and weight made it next to impossible to remodel...
Interior brick projects for the DIYer
Interior brick projects? When you think of interior home improvements, brick might not come to mind. Think again. Sure, facebrick is a bigger job than most DIYers want to tackle, but you can add brick features to any home interior with several of new...
Project Spotlight
Downtown revitalization looks to the past, plans for the future with pavers
Like many cities, Lynchburg, Virginia was at a crossroads of downtown revitalization. Retail and residential development outside the city center left the once-thriving downtown down on its luck, as shoppers and retailers moved to brand-new strip shopping centers on...
Innovative paving for Innovation Plaza in Philadelphia
Looking for innovative paving? Along 37th Street in Philadelphia, there are single concrete blocks rising from the ground that celebrate the achievements of individuals within the fields of science, technology, engineering and art, all of whom have ties to...
Congregation builds memorial garden to honor devoted member and veterans
Phyllis Marion Middleton lived her life as a beloved teacher and community servant in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina. She was a lifelong member; from baptism to marriage to eulogy at Pleasant Garden Baptist Church. As a fitting tribute to Phyllis after her passing in...