{"id":19,"date":"2026-08-23T07:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/brick-that-gets-better-with-age\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:31:32","slug":"brick-that-gets-better-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/brick-that-gets-better-with-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick that gets better with age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We choose a brick the slow way: a panel of each candidate goes up on site in October and stays there through the winter. The one that looks better in March than it did in the autumn is the one we build with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brick that looks better in March than it did in October is the one we build with.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Mill Lane townhouses that was a dark, slightly irregular red, laid in lime mortar so the walls can breathe and any brick can be replaced without scarring its neighbours. The grey weatherboarding between the houses is the same timber as the window frames, painted to match the pointing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new street should look settled within a few years, not tired. Brick is the one material we have found that does both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We choose a brick by leaving samples outside for a winter. The one that looks better in March than it did in October is the one we build with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","tag-brick","tag-townhouses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}