Paint a few swatches to fine-tune your colors and number of coats. Learn to make homemade house paint with mortar and kaolin clay for a natural and nontoxic substitute for petroleum-based paints. Clay ...

Over recent decades everything to do with construction has been improved to enable the builder to increase the speed of construction, that is, everything except bricklaying. Conventional masonry ...

Q. I’m about to undertake a complex project. I’ve got an older brick home that’s more than 100 years old. There are places where the mortar needs attention. The bigger issue is a room addition we’ve ...

A reader recently emailed me, seeking advice on whether to take on a do-it-yourself repair of the mortar around her brick masonry. She regularly performs hands-on maintenance around her home, she said ...

Q: I'm about to undertake a complex project. I have an older brick home that's more than 100 years old. There are places where the mortar needs attention. The bigger issue is a room addition we have ...