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I'm not an American for whom everything and everyone is great or fabulous [...] For example, I like woodchip ceilings

Woodchip ceilings, great *LOL*

But tolerance for brickwork imperfection sometimes truly requires a lot of patience. Ommmm ...

However, I really like the frieze with the slanted bricks. The "Bauhaus plaster" smoky eyes don't come close to that.

Funny...

Here in the north, clinker brick is standard and somehow a must-have.

Plaster facade is for poor people who order a catalog house in standard and shy away from any extra cost....

( That was harsh and exaggerated )

Funny...

Here in the North, clinker is standard and somehow a must-have.

Stucco facade is for poor people who order a catalog house as standard and avoid any extra cost....

(That was said nastily and exaggerated)

I've heard. At the Dutch border, everything is also done with clinker. Here you get weird looks if you want to do clinker.

After all, a clinker facade is not more expensive because it is higher quality, but just more elaborate.

I also come from the North and consider clinker brick a "must-have." Plastered facades always seem "cheap" to me... I always think of dirty, aged plastered houses where the plaster is slowly crumbling....

But on the one hand, it's a matter of taste and on the other hand, it's very much region-dependent what is considered the "standard."

That was one of the few points of discussion before building our house. My wife definitely wanted a plastered facade and I definitely wanted clinker brick.... so it became a mixed facade (the picture was taken at the end of 2017):

Funny...

Here in the North, clinker bricks are standard and somehow a must-have.

Plaster facades are for poor people who order a catalog house as standard and shy away from any extra costs....

(That was said meanly and exaggeratedly now)

Exactly. It’s for poor people like us, but with poor people like us, the house is paid off and the bank is not in the land registry, and that’s why it’s a real home.... I've often felt that you look down on us. K.

For me as a Bavarian, clinker somehow never really came into question. Simply for the reason that it is absolutely rare here with us. I would have liked it, too, but at the time it wouldn't have been worth the extra cost for me. That you save follow-up costs through the clinker facade (no painter necessary anymore) and that the facade is thus more maintenance-free and weather-resistant, on the other hand, did not occur to me at all. That would have been an argument that would have put the extra costs in a different light. But now it’s too late anyway.