How to decorate the facade of brick?

Here was a time carved shutters, unusual brickwork, painting on the walls! Each house had its own face and soul. But then came the period of identical gray "birdhouses" similar one to the other... Today, originality and uniqueness in fashion again, but because the decorative elements and other ways to decorate the facade back to us, but in a new capacity. Visitors FORUMHOUSE talk about how to "put beauty" on a brick facade.

Modern technologies decorating the facades are very diverse. Rich and choice of finishing materials. The most popular wall cladding sandwich panels, stone and brick, decorative plaster. Decorate the facade and hinged decorative elements: balustrades, columns, cornice, Rust (angular structure), and others. Not often, but decorate the house with unusual and beautiful brickwork, and also due to the original design of windows and doorways.

Let's start with the most simple and inexpensive solutions.

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1. polystyrene foam

Hinged elements made of polystyrene, coated with a hard reinforcing mimic architectural elements of concrete, stone or marble. At first glance you can not tell that it's decor from foam. The material is easy to install, thanks to its light weight, makes the load on the front, does not rot, it is considered durable and inexpensive.

nadegniy (User FORUMHOUSE):

- It is easier and more reliable to make a decorative elements of polystyrene foam... it is attached to the facade on the spot fitted by the facade and architectural stack, mesh vtaplivaetsya in glue, then - quartz primer and decorative plaster.

2. Facade decoration made of polyurethane

Jewelery made of polyurethane - is another good solution if you do not want to burden the facade heavy and not easy to install hinged elements of concrete and plaster. Popularity polyurethane decor is due to several factors. Among them:

• large variety of designs that can be realized by using this material;
• strength, environmental resistance and long service life;
• high frost resistance and fire resistance, the ability to endure repeated cycles of "freeze-thawing" without loss of quality;
• no exposure to fungal attack and insects;
• the installation can be done on their own, without the involvement of highly skilled workers.

3. stone ornaments

Usually used for decorative purposes travertine, sandstone, limestone, marble, granite and others. For the manufacture of artificial analogues used gypsum, glass reinforced plastic or polystyrene. For decorating the exterior of buildings often use polymer concrete - a material that consists of marble chips and polyester resin. With a wide range of coloring elements, decorative items can be of different colors.

Facade decoration made of artificial and, moreover, natural stone - it's beautiful, but time-consuming and expensive. However, the positive qualities of this material - abound: durability, water resistance, resistance to weathering, easy operation. Hinged elements of stone give the house an elegant and prestigious appearance.

4. fiberglass

One more modern material - fiberglass - allows you to avoid painting works on the facade of the house. The fact is that in the manufacture of decorative elements can be mounted directly tinting in any color.

The main advantages of facade decoration of glass fiber may be mentioned are:

• lightness and small thickness, whereby the material is often used to make products marker;
• strength (strength comparable to that of aluminum);
• durability (decades even under difficult operation);
• installation at any time of the year.

Architectural decoration made of fiberglass recommend to the renovation of old buildings. This material makes it possible to minimize the load on the front of the house.

Brickwork

Member forum Voevoda He believes that no matter how easy to install and beautiful were not hanging decorative elements, they "Do not go to any comparison with this masonry, the more durability".

I agree with him and another member of the forum, Wall-e. Validating offers several ways to decorate the facade with the help of brickwork.

1. Horizontal division of the facade.

Wall-e(User FORUMHOUSE):

- The house looks better if there is a division of the house per floor, for example, cap separated from the ground floor, the first from the second, etc.

Divide the façade horizontally, you can:

• color;
• different from the primary location masonry bricks, e.g., vertical area, with or without a frame it;
• with the help of the middle eaves of the house.

2. Cornices - they can be a separate element at the top of the house.

Wall-e:

- Cornices can be mild, massive and terrifying massive. For the average home need a little cornices, light and elegant.

3. Making door and window openings.

Openings can be issued only from the top or do as edging on the sides.

classical Wall-e said vertical layout with a large brick selects an item in the middle.

Wall-e:

- bricks can be put in one and in two rows (bonder and lozhkovyh) or 1lozhok-2-1-2 and butting. t. d., alternating through the brick. Upper jab can also be given some of the plane of the wall, it looks very thin and refined. On top of the opening can be made bead.

It can be arranged with the help of more sophisticated masonry, as in the photo:

4. clearance angles

This is one of the most popular options for facade decoration. Angles can only push a little relative to the main masonry houses (2-4 cm), or not to do so over the entire height, and rectangles. You can complicate rectangles done in deepening them and others.

5. Original look and figured wall when the wall is toward the top.

6. An interesting solution - a strip along the edge of the gable under the roof.

7. Colored, textured and shaped bricks - "makes the façade more vivid, natural, natural."

Wall-e believes that

"I do not have to buy expensive imported hand-molded bricks, you can achieve the same effect on a facade with an inexpensive brick - desktop or personal, but that rejection is a chromaticity ".

8. Adorns the facade of the binder masonry. It is possible to make the house completely out of the brick.

9. Designs using decorative brickwork.

Wall-e:

- It is important that the tone of the brick is not very different from each other, otherwise it will be too sharp image. The whole house decorating so you probably should not, but some small fragments of walls - can be: a bay window or down, an extension, under the windows, etc.

10. A combination of several materials in the facade decoration.

Wall-e:

- I believe that the facade looks very advantageous if it combines two or three materials: brick and stucco, brick and wood, etc. plaster better to put at the top of the building, since there it is under the eaves of the roof and protected from the rain, plus the top is not so visible cracks (if they suddenly appear).

With stucco or plastering can be designed and selected facade elements, e.g., corners, door and window openings.

VdmNk It offers another way to decorate the facade:

- I would have done so. If it was a project from scratch, it would have worked out, together with the architect, the facade on the basis of my ideas. If the house is already built, the decorative elements can be installed on the finished facade after its construction. I think that even if we hang the lights in loft, having them posting on the facade using decorative aged pipes and boxes of the same, even the most hopelessly barren facade will look otherwise.

Gameday urge to decorate the facade of carefully, with a sense of proportion.

Better not reload facade elements than overload it. Remember: what is good for the church or public building, are not always suitable for a private home.

Wall-e He believes that the need to copy the beautiful homes competently:

- Big mistake - to copy the individual elements in isolation from the overall concept of the house. Man thinks, "This is a cool house, now I quickly copy these solutions, and I will be little house - just a feast for the eyes." But he did not realize that his house is made in a very different style, and it turns out compote. We admire the English house, build something like that, but it turns out parody. Why? And because the original windows - poluarochnye, and we made rectangular; on the windows was the layout, and we have removed it, the windows of width less than the height, and we did the opposite. And changed the color of the walls and roof color was the green back, and so on. D. And then look at his creation and wonder, "sculpted like a British home, but it turned out ...".

Many interesting ideas for decorating a brick facade, laying techniques, links and other useful information can be gathered in this topic. As oblitsevat wall brick work, read here.

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