Klinker or plaster? Durability / appearance?

The gray is dull. If using bricks, then classic red.

Exactly. Nice red or red-multicolored clinker. I find white and [zahlsteingelb] ugly, everything darker than red as well. And then nicely smooth, but not bossed.

So now you know my taste - doesn’t help you with your house, does it?

If [Klinker], then I am always in favor of classic red. Whether plaster or [Klinker]... well, purely a matter of taste... with plaster you are flexible later on, with [Klinker] you can really mess up (as my previous posters already said... yellow or white... the houses are now almost unsellable )

I would always go in the red direction as well, there are so many beautiful ones and they are, at least for us, also timeless.

I have never asked myself this question as a North German. Brick veneer is a must,

Oh nonsense, that’s just tourist folklore. Nordlys’ house also has neither brick veneer nor thatched roof or captain’s gable. Nevertheless, it is authentic for its North German location, simply because of "without knick-knacks and frills." North German can certainly mean something different to everyone; for me, for example, it is the folding door.

That a house is clad with coarse Mettwurst, I find more typical for the Münsterland than for Holstein

Roof and windows naturally anthracite.

That is by no means "original" or typical for the landscape.

I find the clinker shown chic. Whether that is typical or not doesn't matter to me. Of course, here in SH we have traditionally fired reddish bricks and used them to protect façades from the weather, that is now unmistakable. But already in the 19th century, more and more plaster façades appeared, sometimes very colorful. Blue, red, yellow, everything was allowed. Along with colorfully painted windows. Anyone who wants to see something historical like that should look at Schleswig Holm. So clinker is indeed common here, but not alone by a long way. Nowadays, in SH, besides clinker façades, people often build plastered ones as well, because of the price, or wood. Rather typical is the frequency of bungalows, because land is relatively cheap, often also 1.5-storey houses with very small knee walls. Often hipped roofs or clipped hip roofs. Compared to NRW, for example, where we have relatives, I also notice that we order far fewer roller shutters or venetian blinds, but very often side doors. Very often people forgo garages. And smart homes, according to our Elis, are in fact never ordered. Karsten