Serpentine "crinkle crankle" walls are an ancient, aesthetic idea that deserves a second look. The post If You See a Wavy Brick Wall, This is What It Means appeared first on Family Handyman.

Although it depends on the arc length of the wavy wall, a wavy wall that is one brick thick uses more bricks per unit than a straight wall that is two bricks thick. In some cases, the amount can ...

Some of the original wavy, or drunken, brick walls still stand, and Dilbeck included several soaring cathedral-vault ceilings. The house has a “storybook” feel, she says.

That's all masons had to remember when laying out the brick pattern for the five-story addition to the Arizona State Office Building downtown. "We worked out a method: As long as whoever was ...