Easy Lay Brick Key
Burke's Backyard viewers Veronica and Anthony Rowley sent us a picture of their new brick letterbox. They laid all the bricks themselves using a product called the Easy Lay Brick Key. This is a plastic device which is placed into the mortar to ... [... more]
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Screwless Brackets
These "screwless brackets" allow you to hang plants, lanterns and shelving off your brick walls without damaging or marking them. They even allow you to move your plants easily from one side of the house to the other to follow the sun, as the .. [... more]
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Don's Landscaping Tips: Adding interest to a Brick Wall
Imagine looking out of the feature windows in your house and not being able to see anything, except a boring brick wall! Many people are actually finding themselves in this situation these days, because developers often build very large houses on ... [... more]
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Balcony on a Budget
Sydney graphic designer Elly Clark lives in a red brick block of flats with a rounded Art Deco influence. The building itself presents an interesting challenge, but Elly was really stumped when it came to her tiny, useless balcony. What could be ... [... more]
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Brick Engraving
If you are in the process of renovating or building your home, here is a way to stand out from the crowd. It is now possible to carve your house name, number or anything you like into the surface of house bricks and pavers. It doesn't matter ... [... more]
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Brick recolouring
This technique can make new bricks appear old or give your home a whole new look. Looking at the houses in your neighbourhood, it is obvious there are a wide variety of bricks on the market. So when the time comes to extend your home, matching ... [... more]
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Fake Wall Makeover
Don and Scott used faux rock panels and colourful foliage plants to makeover an ugly, damaged brick wall. These semi-flexible panels are made from moulded polyurethane covered in sand, oxide and paint. We used two sections (3m x 2m), weighing ... [... more]
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Slick Brick
The slick brick makes building faster, easier and cheaper than you'd probably expect. The times are changing in the world of building and the new demands of homeowners, developers, architects and designers have resulted in the production of Slick ... [... more]
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Cheap Kitchen
Scott and Tara faced a real challenge updating this kitchen and family room, which was a classic leftover from the 1970s. The original layout didn't make the best use of the available space, the exposed brick walls looked daggy and the kitchen ... [... more]
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Don's Landscaping Tips: Good Geometry
The use of good geometry in garden design creates a spectacular formal courtyard in a small area. Matching the pinky-grey brick of the house with limestone pavers can give a natural looking backdrop for geometrically placed plants and other ... [... more]
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Scott Brick
Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a... Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized ... [... more]
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Warriewood Beach: million dollar views?
After 21 years living on the headland above Warriewood Beach on Sydney's northern beaches, Stand and Audrey are selling up to be closer to their daughter and her husband on the Central Coast. The five-bedroom brick and weatherboard house features ... [... more]
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