COLOUR IN THE HOME

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 5

COLOUR IN THE HOME

Attractive Brickwork (Reuter—Special to “The Dominion.”) London, September 11. Colour is coming into the home. It is not only tinting the rugs, the curtains, and the sofa cushions, but it is running all over the outside walls. Madame, if she wants it, can now have a tangerine house, a cherry red cottage, or a violet villa. It is all because of bricks. Brickmakers have found that they can produce bricks in almost any shade—white, yellow, brown, red, blue, black, or grey. In grandfather’s day a good solid red brick was considered flamboyant enough for anybody. Now a bricklayer can make a house look like an orchard in spring, a forest in autumn, or an over-ripe plum. American manufacturers have gone even farther, reports the department of Scientific and Industrial Research. By means of scratching the faces of the brides with nails, combs or wire, or by tearing pieces with rotating knives, or by stripping the skin of the brick and rolling the cracked pieces on again, they have produced bricks whose surfaces look like and are named “tapestry,” “rug,” “raglan,” “astrakhan,” and “bark.” The great Are of London in 10G6 is said to have given the greatest impetus to brickwork, for London after the fire was largely rebuilt of brick. Since then brick has been the main building material used in England.