I love exposed brick. Every time I see it in restaurants and on TV, I think it's such a stunning accent to any room. When we demoed our kitchen, we were graced with brick underneath the old plaster. After talking it over, we decided to forgo our original plan to put up drywall, and instead decided to keep and clean the brick. The only problem was, even after a lot of hard work getting it to look as nice as we could, it never looked as put together as we wanted. Our interior brick was never meant to be exposed, and thus it was rough and just not pretty. Since we had a chance to live with the brick, it helped us realize that our kitchen needed something more than drywall to feel finished. Inspired by the brick, we installed subway tile. This was the right way to go for our space, but I don't think we would have come to that decision if we hadn't had to live with the brick in the first place.
