Brick House (Brick Veneer Wall)

Much like bacon, brick just makes everything better.

Unfortunately I have a little bit of a "champagne taste on a beer budget" type of situation here, and buildings with brick tend to fall a ways out of our current price range.

Lucky there's hope for us all. It's called brick veneer.

*Thin Brick Image*

What you end up getting is all the charm and benefits of brick with ̶n̶o̶ less hassle. They're basically the Budlight of brick- lighter, cheaper, and they get the job done.

It's exceedingly rare to find a project that is not only forgiving of imperfections and fuck-ups, but will actually enhance it.

The beauty of this project is any idiot with a wall and a free weekend can do it. Take us for example.

You'll also need mortar, a troewl or two, wood spacers, tile saw, and beer. Lots of beer.

Order Brick. After shopping around a bit, we went with the Old Chicago Rosse brick from Home Depot. Taking into account price + square foot coverage per box, this made the most sense. *Koni Box Image*
Lay out pattern, cut brick. This was the most time consuming part. After choosing your pattern, measure and lay out a few rows of brick.
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Lay Brick.
Grout.

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Here's the wall before. Thoroughly underwhelming, no?

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