We’re often asked: do we work with home owners directly? The answer is yes! After all, nobody wants to live in a building they don’t like to look at. When it came time for this Wicker Park client to select masonry for her new construction single family home, she reached out to us for options that would help her house make the right first impression.
But it can be hard to communicate your taste in bricks if you lack the vocabulary or haven’t quite decided what your aesthetic is. And that’s okay — in this instance, the property owner spent a day driving around the city and recording addresses of brick buildings she liked, which she then sent to us in the hopes of finding something similar.
We drove around to those same properties, identifying her taste as “rustic, pink brick”… a description matching our reclaimed Chicago common brick! After sampling a few different medium-to-dark pink batches, she settled on the one you see here. We even ended up supplying a custom set of folding LaCantina Doors (with integrated Centor bug screen) for the back patio. The result is an awesome project that artfully blends modern and vintage style for a timeless, tasteful addition to the neighborhood.
LOCATION: Wicker Park, Chicago
GC: Prairie Home Builders
INSTALLER: McAuley Masonry
PRODUCT SUPPLIED: Reclaimed “Medium Pink” Brick, LaCantina Doors, Centor
