The corner of the addition in 2021, tan and brown blended brick running from the house wall across the corner pier to a bank of windows
Case File 385

Matching a Franklin Indiana Home Addition to the House

The brick on the new room did not match the brick on the house it was built against. The homeowner had the addition stained to match in 2003, some units lightened and some darkened. It was photographed again eighteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 385
Structure Single-story home addition
Location Franklin, Indiana
Stained June 2003
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 18 years, Gold level

2003

  1. The addition wall in June 2003 beside the original house wall, a vertical seam between the two bricks left of center, two strips of white tape across the new brick and a burned-in camera date in the corner During, June 2003 View this photo larger
  2. The corner of the addition in June 2003, its brick pier between a bank of windows and a glass door, with a covered grill and a potted geranium on the deck After, 2003 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The addition went up in a brick that ran lighter and pinker than the house, with fewer dark units in the blend. The file puts it plainly: the homeowner wanted a better brick match for their addition. The June 2003 frame shows the seam where the two walls meet, with tape strips marking off courses on the new side. The homeowner hired the correction.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. The file records the match as made by both lightening and darkening: some units brought down toward the dark headers in the original blend, others brought up.

2021, eighteen years on

  1. The corner of the addition in 2021 with snow on the ground, tan and brown brick running from the house wall on the left across the corner pier to the bank of windows, with the certification stamp in the corner After, 2021 View this photo larger

What eighteen years prove

One blend across the corner, the addition and the house reading as a single wall. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-three years old, and the 2021 revisit is the most recent record on it.

The signed file

Every certified job gets the same form, signed when someone goes back to the building. This is the one for case 385, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

Scan of the case study form for case 385, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Franklin IN Addition (2003)
Level
Gold. The scale runs Bronze at seven to nine years, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
Hired by
The homeowner
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Issue
"The homeowner wanted a better brick match for their addition."
What was corrected
"We colored the brick for a better match by both lightening and darkening."
Storyline
"18 years later it still looks great!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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