Differentiate Brick Stain from Paint

their red brick outside on the outside of the house to be um also white so there are stains i have stains that you can make completely opaque and they look like a paint but they still keep the natural look of the stone which uh paint does not and so a stain you can um the stain i use solid colors soft color stain from h and c you can tend to any color you want just like you can tend to paint um you're on it's unlimited what colors you can choose from and a solid color stain actually absorbs into the brick into the brick and colors it opaquely where a paint on the other hand creates a film over the top of the brick and what that film does is kind of eliminate some of the profile of the brick and the look of the brick and the natural look to it so stains are going to make it still look unnatural but it's going to be a solid color a paint is going to take away a lot of that natural look