Bramwell-McKay is a team of master masons, restoration experts, and material consultants.
Great buildings start with great people. The staining is the craft. The mission is bigger: the company is just a vehicle by which we build amazing people. We bring young people into the trades, including high schoolers in the summer, and surround them with mentors who push them in their skills, their work, and their lives. Every wall we stain is a byproduct of that.
Bettering People, Bettering the Built Environment.
We work in partnership with Masonry Cosmetics, whose founders came out of the brick manufacturing industry and whose mineral stain systems have been proving themselves on brick since 1988, with documented, revisited, re-photographed results.
We do what is in the best interest of the project, our client, and our people. That includes telling you no: if you ask us to paint your brick, we will decline, explain why, and show you the better way.
The People Behind the Application
Master Mason, Lead Applicator
He visits the sites, consults on best practices, and leads the team behind every brushstroke, solution and transformation. With decades spent specializing in stain application and solution development, Rich has proven there are few visions that can't be brought to life and color problems that can't be solved.
CEO
As CEO of Bramwell-McKay Property Services & Consultants, Kate serves as the spearhead of company direction, development and strategy. Kate maintains the weight placed on people-first practices, ensuring every employee, client, and collaborator walks away from Bramwell-McKay better than they arrived.
Director of Operations
Applicator excellence is nothing without operational excellence. From internal to external-facing operations, Harrison ensures the team's craftsmanship is backed by an operation clients and partners can count on. Because when the team gets to operate in incredible conditions, they can produce incredible results.
Chairman, Lead Consultant
40-year master mason, expert in historic restoration and preservation, above and below grade structural condition assessments and water remediation. Jason has spent decades in the most specialized areas of the masonry industry. From boots-on-ground crew leadership to expert witness testimony and forensic examination, Jason has served as a teacher, leader and steward of significant structures for a lifetime.
The People Behind the Product
Co-Owner
Don started on the floor of a Pennsylvania brick plant and spent decades in brick manufacturing and sales before he co-owned Masonry Cosmetics with Rick.
Don took a summer job at the Hanley Brick Plant in Summerville, Pennsylvania, and stayed, working as shapes maker, brick setter, packer, and glaze sprayman before he was made glaze foreman.
With Glen-Gery he moved through distribution and architectural sales, and from 1994 ran the Ohio region, where the Iberia plant went from heavy losses to a profit of over $2 million by 2000. He then became co-owner of Masonry Cosmetics with Rick. Don presents the AIA/CES registered course “The Creativity of Brick Matching,” and in 2022 the Mason Contractors Association of America gave him its C. DeWitt Brown Leadman Award.
Chairman and CEO
A brick plant engineer turned color specialist. Rick solved brick color problems across Glen-Gery's 17 plants, and the staining process he developed in the early 1990s is the one we apply.
Rick grew up in southeastern Ohio, in a house that overlooked the brick plant where his father and uncles worked. He studied ceramic and heat processing engineering at Hocking College, then started up industrial kilns across North America for Bickley Furnaces.
In 1983 he joined Glen-Gery's plant in Caledonia, Ohio, as a quality control engineer and later its kiln engineer. By 27 he was working on brick color correction, and Glen-Gery sent him to solve color problems at any of its 17 plants. He started his own staining company in the early 1990s, and the process he developed is the one we apply.
Vice President
Peggy Foster has been a driving force at Masonry Cosmetics since its earliest days, helping shape the company and the industry through nearly three decades of relentless dedication, people-first leadership, and technical expertise.
What began as a role supporting product development and contractor relations quickly expanded into a lifelong commitment to empowering teams, building lasting client partnerships, and advancing the standards of masonry color enhancement. Peggy's unmatched passion and tireless work ethic have earned her the trust and admiration of peers across the country.
Known for her authenticity, warmth, and no-nonsense approach, Peggy brings heart and hustle to everything she does, whether she's cold-calling prospects, managing large-scale projects, or mentoring the next generation of masonry professionals.
Her influence goes far beyond job titles. Peggy embodies the spirit of service and excellence that defines Masonry Cosmetics, and her legacy continues to grow with every connection she makes and every project she touches.
Peggy doesn't just support the mission. She embodies it, building lasting partnerships and empowering teams across the industry.
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