Of course option 1 would look weird. It would look just like what it is, stuck on thin brick. Brick needs to look like it was designed to be there, not pasted on.

@millworkman thin brick would look like really brick i assume?

In my opinion, no. The brick will look pasted on. You never seen brick only on the second floor of a home. The brick needs to look like it is a function part of the homes cladding system, not a pasted on after thought. Use stucco all the way around. Is this real stucco or EFIS?

Yeah, brick up high looks fake-y unless it’s supported by brick.

Redo all stucco so it matches all around.

The face of a thin brick normally looks like the face of a real brick. How those bricks are used are the problem.

@millworkman my lower level has band of rick also on the oher side of house our chimney is brick all the way ( you cant see on photo) so i think it doesnt look just piece by piece added on?

If you like brick that much, you'll have to buy another house. The stucco is there, no chance to go back. The new decision of brick for the 2nd floor addition is not good aesthetically for all the reasons stated by others. Really, the driveway is so cramped you won't have a good perspective to see much on that side. The other side is blocked by the neighbor's house. The back is minimized and visually complicated enough by the windows/door, large fascia, glass sunroom, guardrail, and stair/handrails so there isn't much brick to see from the yard anyway.

Continue the stucco. Introduce some landscape seating walls, an outdoor fireplace, a pergola with brick columns, redo the patio, whatever to satisfy your red brick desire.

"my lower level has band of rick also on the oher side of house"

You do not skip over stucco and then continue brick, that is what give it the pasted on fake look. Brick is designed to look like it belongs and supported all the way up.

Yes you have brick on the foundation but you don't have brick foundation, then stucco and then add brick to the second floor. It will look pasted on and not original and will muddle the house look. You need to continue the stucco for it to look like it's part of the house.

@Mark Bischak, Architect what do you mean by how they are used? you mean how it gets installed would matter? craftmanship?

thin brick will look like real brick?

do you think its odd to put brick there?

@millworkman

@cpartist

what about this modern look at the back? mix of stucco and wood sliding? i marked orange is the wood just an idea, my roof for addition will be flat roof and i thnk i can achieve modern look? there is 1 foot overhand and i can put wood there too?

Just follow the contractor's advice for all stucco, really.

No to the wood.

Masonry needs to be use in a way that it is visually and structurally supported by something below it that can support such load.

Did an engineer design this remodeling?

@Mark Bischak, Architect

yes and thats why they suggested to go with thin brick not full brick on stucco ..

It is an adorable house. But it needs to be all stucco. Brick would look strange. I would not add wood.

Your house is not modern. You'll be turning it into a remuddled house if you make the back contemporary. Follow what the front is. Meaning all stucco. Stop trying to bastardize it.

Use. All. Stucco.

There is a big difference between 'designing' a house and 'engineering' a house. Just because thin brick can be stuck on above stucco does not mean it should be stuck on above the stucco.