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Bricks and stones are the highest quality materials for home exteriors. They’re long-lasting and require little to no maintenance with minor repairs needed once in awhile. Designed to give homes a refined, timeless look, bricks are often used on the exterior of homes for increased protection and security.

They’re weather and fire-resistant and reduce costs related to heating and cooling. They also help insulate noise and are a great remodelling and renovation idea for your home. Although reclaimed brick cladding can be costly, they are durable and can last as long as your home. Therefore, they are worth each penny spent on buying and installing them.

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Available in versatile designs, brick veneer comes in different styles to suit every unique taste, preference and personality out there. They give an authentic, natural look with a cozy, warm finish. The bricks are often used outdoor to create a positive impression, especially in the eyes of potential home buyers.

Here are five tips to improving your property with reclaimed brick cladding:

Create a Driveway

Use brick cladding to define your driveway, ensuring your visitors don’t get to park on your front lawn. The bricks aren’t just functional to demarcate where cars should be parked outside your home, but also add a unique character to your property and home’s modern architecture.

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Secure Physical Barrier around Your Property

Brick cladding can also be used on your perimeter wall to give your home a new look while securing your property from intruders. It also offers privacy within your front- and backyard and makes a great diy remodelling project.

Render a Brick Façade around Your Property

Although rendering a brick façade on your exterior walls can be costly, it can give your home a completely new look while elevating your property’s general value on the market. In fact, it can increase the value of your home triple times what you’d spend offsetting your exterior space.

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Create a Neat Garden

Add brick cladding around your garden beds and potted plants to create a neat garden, which in turn improves the value and aesthetics of your property. Matching your neat garden with the exterior walls of your property or creating a contrasting appearance can give your home the look and functionality it deserves.

Create an Entrance

Use brick cladding to create a beautiful entrance in your front pouch. Entrances provide the first impression of your home to visitors, hence should look its best. Although it’s unique, find brick cladding with a finishing look that matches or contrasts other aspects of your exterior space such as roofing and patio.

Although all the tips discussed above encompass using brick cladding outdoors, they can also be used indoors to create centerpieces. For instance, you can clad a single wall in the living room to give it some character with a touch of your personality and style. It can create visual interest for a more attractive interior and exterior space.

Contact us to order Deco Stones today to give your home or commercial property an instant new look

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The fashion runways are filled with it, interior designers are all talking about it, and home décor shop windows are crammed with it – vintage industrial style is HOT for 2016! This quirky style blends a mixture of vintage, rustic, and industrial elements. Designers are making over homes in muted tones, using vintage décor accessories and topping off the look with industrial furniture. To get this look, follow our lead:

Use Everything Vintage – But From an Industrial Setting

Industrial chic is one of the best ways to describe this emerging trend, and it is loaded with metal and wood furniture, stone flooring, and even brick walls. This is the perfect decorating style for a loft apartment, condo, or townhouse. The reason why it’s gaining popularity? Designers are encouraging people to experiment with vintage – it’s not all about shabby chic! Lighting, flooring, and industrial vintage furniture that once would have only been seen in an industrial setting are now being used in homes around the globe.

Copper Lighting, Lanterns, Glass…

Using the right type of lighting has always been pivotal in achieving the right look, and ambience in your home. When it comes to vintage industrial lighting, the options are endless and there are so many possibilities! What’s really popular now are 1930’s style factory lighting and old ship’s lanterns. How cool is that? Polished steel, glass or copper are perfect in providing an immediate industrial feel to your space. Not only are they on-trend, but also practical, functional, and easy-to-clean!

Worn and Weathered Flooring

If you are looking to achieve a weathered wood look with your flooring, old industrial flooring ticks all the right boxes!

The old wooden factory floors form the industrial era suffered extensive wear and tear during their time, and have now what we call a “weathered look”. If you are lucky enough to live in an old factory that has been transformed into a trendy industrial-style loft living space, you already know how warm and cozy this flooring is!

If you want to replicate this vintage industrial look in your own home, you will need to hunt around salvage yards, online sources and flea markets or even swap meets, to see if you can acquire some of this nostalgic wooden flooring and enjoy all that it has to offer.

Walls Covered in Bricks

Fired clay brick has been a mainstream building material for centuries now, and it makes a gorgeous focal wall to create a totally industrialized space.

If your building is old enough, it may well be that you already have this prized architectural gem hidden behind an existing drywall finish. If that is not the case, it is easy to purchase old bricks and replicate this historical look.