TOWN SQUARE | Painting your brick home is entirely your decision. However, it’s pretty irreversible. So make sure you understand what you're getting into.

Paint can instantly refresh a home's exterior without any major renovation. Anyone who lives in a brick house is probably keenly aware of the great paint debate.One side is all for painting brick ...

The problem in buying a painted brick house is not knowing if mineral silicate paint was applied or just any glossy paint that sealed up the bricks. Dana Carrera.

Virtually any surface can be painted. For a combo stone-and-brick home, ... Designer Alison Kirkpatrick repainted this 1940s colonial in Sherwin-Williams "Alabaster." ...

All this makes settling on the right paint for your home's exterior a challenge. That said, a little research plus a few handy rules of thumb will make the process much more manageable.

According to Realtor Farah Sutton, the brick homes in her Arizona market are usually painted to "freshen up and modernize the appearance of the home."For homeowners, she says, painting exterior ...