Brick Border

What to do with old brick.





We had purchased a bunch of old brick from someone that had to get rid of it. And he sold it to us at a very low price...less than 10¢ per brick.



Initially, we laid this at the end of our driveway for our daughter to park her car when she began driving. Here is a picture of the basket weave design that I laid. It started off level but this area gets really wet in the rains and it didn't stay flat for long with the weight of her car.



It served it's purpose until...

Our new garage was built in this very location!

Straight ahead is the brick pad that our daughter used to park on.

Now the new garage sits on this location.

So, we ended up with a lot of old unused brick.  I was able to use some of it and make cute little pillars at key locations around the yard like this...

See the brick pillar that holds the sundial that my son made me?

However, there still was quite a bit of old brick to be used. I had soldiered brick on the border of flower beds at our old house and loved the look, but the work was truly back breaking and I wasn't looking forward to doing it again. But that doesn't keep me down, so gathered up my strength and bordered the front rock wall beds with this same soldiering effect.

The new look of the border

A single row of brick BEFORE the brick soldiering.

So clean and neat looking and easy to maintain. I am glad that I did it even though my back is not happy right now.

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