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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...
Brr, but it’s a wrap! This Old House airs episode featuring pavers in Boston project
This time, Pathway Autumn pavers are chosen for a walkway and patio project for This Old House, filmed in December and initially shown on PBS stations on March 26, 2026. The pavers, with color fired all the way through—unlike concrete pavers, they stand up to snow...
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...
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...
Mid-century modern home office/home 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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
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
If Hilary Farr’s new home in a historic neighborhood in Raleigh tells a story with its Barker House Old Brick House artisanal-style brick up the walls and to the roofline, the way from the street up to the front door is the introduction.
In stately Haverford, good ol’ clay pavers fit right in
Rumbled® Full Range clay pavers from Pine Hall Brick Company are used in a dramatic installation around a swimming pool at a private residence in one of the most affluent suburbs in the United States. They were chosen both for their aesthetic beauty by themselves –...
Use a Rug Doctor pressure washer to clean up your clay paver patio
Today’s pressure washers are more compact and consumer friendly then ever and they’re powerful enough to make easy work of cleaning older paver hardscapes: patios, walkways, driveways, etc. And they're as close as your grocery store.It’s summer. Company’s coming over....
Inside-out: How a nationally known interior stylist and her dedicated DIY-er husband took it outside to add a circular patio in their backyard
The couple used Pine Hall Brick Company’s new but old-looking Rumbled® Madrid pavers and their own skill to build a circular patio for their home in New Orleans.Liz Kamarul is known for her design sense. She’s a professional home stager and a muralist with a serious...
Permeable paving goes residential for driveways and patios
StormPave™: Beautiful, durable and sustainable, all while following the rules for runoff Permeable Full Range Rumbled® StormPave™ pavers are often used to fulfill regulatory requirements of storm drainage in commercial applications. Increasingly, as regulations are...
Staying at home? Make outdoor living space better with a clay paver patio
Clay paver patio? Time to start. “We are creating individual, personal and luxurious resorts in our clients’ own backyard." –Pete Bryant Dorothy nailed it: There’s no place like home. Over this past spring, with shelter-in-place orders in many areas to try to flatten...
Project Material Estimator
DIY Paver Material Estimator Calculate how many pavers, cubic yards of sand and crushed stone base that you'll need for your DIY project. If you'd like assistance, contact us below. ...
Freedom Walkway: colorful paver design tells a story of struggle, triumph
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.-Ralph Waldo EmersonAll photos for this story by Matthew Benham.If you were to visit downtown Rock Hill, South Carolina, you might find yourself in the Freedom Walkway, walking...
Paver streetscape central to new Rea Farms community
A paver streetscape using Pine Hall Brick Full Range is central to a new and growing mixed use community near Charlotte, NC. Rea Farms is New Urbanism with a twist. It’s a community with acres of open space, apartments, single family homes, a K-8 magnet school set to...
Tips and inspiration from Glenn Switzer, Landscape Designer
Winter is the time to think about what your yard could be in the spring. A landscape designer can make it happen. And if you want to get inspired about what your home outdoors can become, spend 20 minutes with Glenn Switzer. He’s a landscape designer from greater...
Paver walkway adds beauty to established neighborhood
A brick paver walkway improves curb appeal, adds value and makes your home outdoors more inviting for you and your guests. Walkways and patios can be do-it-yourself projects over a couple of weekends, especially with the sand-set method: pavers are placed on a bed of...
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...