Q: I have a brick wall around my patio and I’m noticing the bricks are starting to fall apart. At first there was a white powder on the face of the bricks and then the bricks started to flake apart.

The patio door sits on top of some brickwork ... Allow me to explain the dynamics of brick walls, brick veneer and rain, and you’ll be able to do a fantastic job of protecting everything ...

In a Berkeley, California, kitchen, Clara Jung, the founder of local firm Banner Day Interiors, installed shelving over an exposed brick wall that had already been painted. Pots and pans are easy ...

Nonetheless, the walls that help hold up homes and yards on our steep hillsides are part of our unique historic landscape. Concrete, brick, granite boulders, rough manganese-laden rocks ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- If you find brick walls and large windows in historic buildings attractive, the apartments in One Webster’s Landing in Syracuse may be for you. The building’s owner ...