Choose Stain Over Paint for Brick

this christy idaho peter here on paint life tv i'm going to try to answer a question here in this video uh what to paint or stain your brick with now i get this question quite a bit across my entire social media platform what do i paint my brick with and i'll be just talking about brick i'm not going to be talking about wood stone or anything else now um it's kind of interesting question because i never paint brick and so i always stain brick there's a difference between paints and stains and what's interesting is you can get a stain a lot of people think of stains as being semi-transparent stains can be completely opaque so what's common and popular now as people with red brick want their brick to be white people want brick white brick fireplaces people want