Berkshire Brick

And the winner is..... Berkshire Brick.

Today Brad and I rode around and looked at a variety of homes in our area. We started at the brick company, where we narrowed down our choices a bit. Then they supplied us with a list of addresses (complete with brick names and mortar color) for us to check out. We probably looked like suspicious characters, driving slowly by people's homes, eyeballing properties from different angles. We settled on Berkshire Brick, which is actually within the middle of our price range, so I was quite happy with that. I enquired about the brick color at Queens college, and was told that it was a custom color, but that it was very close to another of our favorites, except without some of the darker brick. I briefly entertained the thought of using Queens colored brick for our home, but decided against it. The guy at the brick company told me a funny story about working with the contractors for the new Queens sports complex. I can't do it justice, but he was describing the meticulous manner in which the contractor was trying to match the brick color to the other buildings. He was practically using a magnifying glass, complaining over each discrepancy he saw. The brick guy was like, "It's a brick! There are 30,000 bricks on this campus! You're not going to exactly match each one. You have to look at it from 20 feet away!"

Well, this was our first real step toward building our home. Onward ho!

P.S. In case you are confused, our house is not pictured above. That is a brick sample home.