I agree that it draws attention, and in a bad way!
Please help me by sharing your ideas
I was considering painting it black or charcoal (to match the roof). If I went with black, do you think I should leave the "mortar" white? Or paint all of the brick & mortar black?
If not black, what color do you think would look good?
I would remove it, but I am sure it would be a mess. (All my jobs start out simple & end up turning into a lot more

) Eventually, we will have to give-in and put up vinyl siding I am sure. The problem is our house is almost three times as deep as it is across the front and our best siding estimates last year came in around $15k -- and that just sounds crazy to me. We had the same problem with our roof too, so we did that job ourselves. (Removed four layers of old shingles and all new sheeting. At least we know it is done the right way and we spent about a third of the estimates) But niether my husband nor myself have experience siding
Any opinions and comments welcome!!

