The front of the motorcycle showroom in 2019, its stained brick piers and walls reading as one tan and orange range
Case File 296

Restaining an Indiana Harley-Davidson Showroom to Match

The owner of this motorcycle showroom did not like the color of the brick. The business paid to have all of it stained rather than rebuilt. It was photographed again sixteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 296
Structure Motorcycle showroom
Location Indiana
Stained 2003
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 16 years, Gold level

2003

  1. An outside corner of the showroom in 2003 beside a canopy still open to its steel framing, the brick a pale uneven tan and cream During, 2003 View this photo larger
  2. A long stretch of showroom brick in 2003 with a ladder leaning against it, the wall running from pale cream in the sun to a warmer tan at the right During, 2003 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The owner did not like the color the building was in. The file records the reason for the project as addition or makeover, and the issue in seven words: the customer wanted a better match.

It was hired by the business that runs the showroom, not the mason and not the brick supplier.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. Not a patch and not a few off-color areas: the file records staining 100% of the brick, the whole building taken into one range at once. The phrase in the file is that the work was to update the appearance of the building.

2019, sixteen years on

  1. The front of the showroom in 2019, its stained brick piers and walls running past the entrance under the Harley-Davidson and Triumph signs 2019 View this photo larger
  2. A panel of showroom brick between two doorways in 2019, the units an even range of cream, tan and orange across dark mortar joints 16 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The covered walkway along the showroom in 2019, its brick reading as one tan and orange range past benches and the customer entrance 2019 View this photo larger
  4. Close view of the stained brick at unit scale in 2019, the units ranging from cream through tan to orange brown across dark mortar 2019 View this photo larger

What sixteen years prove

Same walls, same entrance, and a color that is the color it was mixed to. 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 2019 certification is the most recent record on it.

The signed file

Every certified job gets the same form, signed on the day someone goes back to the building. This is the one for case 296, 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 296, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Harley Davidson Show Room (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 business or corporation
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Issue
"The customer wanted a better match."
What was corrected
"We stained 100% of the brick."
Storyline
"The customer was not happy with their brick color so they hired us to update the appearance of the building. We stained 100% of the brick and the customer was happy with the outcome!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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