August 4th...Brick decisions

No pictures of work today, but the guys worked on finishing the trusses on the back deck and Ty's room. They also worked on bracing a bunch of stuff.

We met with the brick guy today to decide on a brick and we found a couple that we like. But, we decided to e-mail him some pictures of bricks on homes that we found on the net so that he could look for something like the bricks in the pics. We want a really rustic look...like the brick has been around for ages. We also like dark mortar. We went and looked at a house that has a brick on it that we picked today and really liked it, but want to look at some darker samples to make sure that's what we want. We were supposed to pick out some shingles but didn't because we wanted to pick out the brick and rock first. Oh yeah, I need to pick out the rock I want, but I need to get the brick first so that I'll know what will look good. So....brick first, rock/shingles next, and I also want there to be a bit of wood but we'll leave that until later. Who knew that picking this stuff out would be that difficult? Oh well, at least its fun. I'm going to post the pictures of brick that we liked. Let me know which one(s) you like! (They are in no particular order...)

#1: (Ignore the stucco...just look at the brick)#2#3#4#5 (We will have cream/tan windows, not white, so keep that in mind)#6 (This color of window...)#7 (This is our wooden beam shape we are using)#8