A generational home project in Glen Ridge, NJ, uses pavers and Thin Brick supplied by Pine Hall Brick Company for the PBS series This Old House. This time, it’s a impressive makeover of a family home that includes replacing a concrete walkway with pavers and refaces porch piers with Old School 8s, our retro Thin Brick product. (Above: This Old House landscape architect Jenn Nawada (left) with Judy Berry, the mother of one of the owners, Jason Berry. All photos by This Old House.) Kevin O’Connor discusses pavers with the homeowners’ daughter Asha Chaudhuri (far right) and Asha’s mothe ..read more

Pathway Full Range clay pavers bring continuity to a scenic seaport, and it looks like it’s becoming the look to have, up and down the New England coast. Above image: Brick Market, Portsmouth, NH. All photos: Ben Cyr. The Brick Kid figures he’s installed about a million square feet of Pine Hall Brick clay pavers. Most of that is in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, just across the state line where the grown up “kid” runs Hard Tech Construction, in Berwick, Maine. “I’m 38, but they still call me the Brick Kid, for whatever reason,” said Ben Cyr who started his career a while back winning job after ..read more

As suburban towns evolve, residential development emerges in central business districts, bringing more vehicles and pedestrians. Lawrenceville, Georgia, is one such suburb, 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, where you can see this happening. And forward-thinking urban planners are adding amenities like Pine Hall Brick clay pavers to enhance the downtown quality of life. The process involved milling down the existing asphalt while keeping the road base in place. Then four inches of concrete was poured for elevation. Pavers were set in mortar on top of the concrete. Lawrenceville 2045, the Lawr ..read more

The use of clay permeable pavers – like Pine Hall Brick Company’s StormPave – is gaining momentum in both commercial and residential uses, which was the subject of a recent story in Stormwater Solutions magazine by Pine Hall Brick Company president and CEO Walt Steele. (Above photo: Marcus Clem) When installed in a best-practices system, stormwater is directed into the ground, where it is filtered naturally, or held for use as irrigation. Removing stormwater out of the stormwater and septic sewage mix helps relieve the pressure on sewage treatment plants. “Permeable pavement isn’t new ..read more

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Hilary Farr, host of “Love It Or List It,” designed an award winning entry that won first place recognition for Farr and Pine Hall Brick Company in the Clay Brick – Residential category of the Hardscape North America (HNA) Awards at the organization’s annual convention last week in Louisville, KY. “Love It or List It” host Hilary Farr’s new home in Raleigh, NC, built using Pine Hall Brick face brick and clay pavers, features a terraced garden walkway using Rumbled Bluffs pavers in an unusual English random pattern – a mix of Spanish bond, herringbone, basketweave and running bond and has roo ..read more

A one-of-a-kind theme park designed by a landscape architect needed a weather-durable, aesthetically pleasing hardscape. This called for acres of Pine Hall Brick clay pavers. All photos: Austin Martin. When a 100-plus-acre nature immersive theme park atop a mountain in eastern Tennessee first opened in 2017 it had to match the alpine beauty with a natural product for its winding walkways and gathering plazas. Bob Bentz, the founder and owner of the Anakeesta park, is also a landscape architect. He’s extremely pleased with his installers choice of Pine Hall Brick pavers. The AnaVista obse ..read more

In a lush newly created greenspace, runoff from rooftops and buildings flows to a bioswale and bioretention area surrounded by park-like landscape features that include a trail and native trees, shrubs, and grasses. StormPave™ water permeable pavers make they hardscaping a lot greener, too. Kansas City, Missouri’s Water Services Department created a sustainable green infrastructure demonstration project in the city’s Central Industrial District (CID), also known as the Historic West Bottoms. Down in the floodplains of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, not far from their confluence, the idea ..read more

In a lush newly created greenspace, runoff from rooftops and buildings flows to a bioswale and bioretention area surrounded by park-like landscape features that include a trail and native trees, shrubs, and grasses. StormPave™ water permeable pavers make they hardscaping a lot greener, too. Kansas City, Missouri’s Water Services Department created a sustainable green infrastructure demonstration project in the city’s Central Industrial District (CID), also known as the Historic West Bottoms. Down in the floodplains of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, not far from their confluence, the idea ..read more

In a lush newly created greenspace, runoff from rooftops and buildings flows to a bioswale and bioretention area surrounded by park-like landscape features that include a trail and native trees, shrubs, and grasses. StormPave™ water permeable pavers make they hardscaping a lot greener, too. Kansas City, Missouri’s Water Services Department created a sustainable green infrastructure demonstration project in the city’s Central Industrial District (CID), also known as the Historic West Bottoms. Down in the floodplains of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, not far from their confluence, the idea ..read more