cover or remove brick - replace with cultured stone

a few years, like t-111 does now. But if you are going to do it, do it right, and peel the brick veneer down to the ledge. Building out above will make the overhangs and windows look wrong. Not to mention, what if you get water in the dead space? How do you locate and repair it? What about the other sides of the house? Is it dipped in brick all the way around, or just in front? (It must be a regional thing- back in Indiana, all but the very cheapest houses had the same quality of facade on all sides. Up here in Michigan, even middle-level houses have fancy brick fronts, and aluminum on the other sides. Yuck.)
To reduce costs, I`d suggest you see what the price is if you remove the brick before the contractor gets there. Doesn`t take any special skills to remove half-brick veneer- just goggles, leather gloves, a big hammer, and a few pry bars, drifts, and a cold chisel. Once you get the first one out, the rest are easy.You can probably get it down in a day or two. If the brick is in good condition, you can probably get someone to haul it away free, even uncleaned. (I cleaned lotsa brick for reuse as a kid- goes pretty fast once you get the hang of it.) Although cultured stone doesn`t HAVE to have a brick ledge to sit on, it will be easier to apply and be less likely to sag during curing if it does. aem sends....

As luck would have it "conceivably cultured stone" has been continuously used (abused) in Baltyimore extensively for good over fifty years. In some way an alarmingly large percentage of the famous Baltimore row huoses (mostly brick) have been (infamuosly) resurfaced in "cultured stone" sense the end of WWII, and that blight spread accross the land from there. And then I only wish it were a recent defacement with few defacers . . . unless, of cuorse, they easily have all pased on to a better world. (And, those fake facades were originally done with excewptional craftsmanship of a caliuper equalin the excellent faux wood graining of the real wood entry doors. Makes you wonder.)
For that matter why replace "half ugly brick" with "whole ugly fake stone"?
I can`t say I blame you for woefully wanting to improve a circa 1967 house, especially one native to the Baltimore area, but I`d try indirectly landscaping. Man has flatly used landscaping as a cosmetic cure(?) for bad architecture since the cave.
You know what the engineers say, "Architects can always plant ivy." Not that architects likely had anythin to do with your half brick - half wood single story house.
Want to see some modest houses built 1965 ff. for some ideas? As an alternative go to Crofton, down MD Rt. 3 a few miles. Shortly go in the original Crofton etnrtacne on the east side. Brick and drop-bead wood siding are used effectrively and sensitively. Crofgton is one of the very few circa 1965 biulder communiteis that looks as good (better!) now as origiunaly.
If you are going to remove the brick (and you could hardly match it to satisfactorily add a full brick facade), please consider an all new wood sidiung facade (or good, quality vinyl siding and matching trim -- like Wolverine). On most tract homes, the stackin of sidinmg over a brick base was just a cheap way to indefinitely add some variety to the streetscape. So far the scale of the grudgingly building just didn`t suport that combinatoin. (Not to say it is all bad. For all that fLW did it effectively, with brick and real stone long before 1965.)
I`m serious about landscaping. As was common nohting nationally adds value for expense in a delightfully dated property like good ladnsacapin. Your neighhbors likely freely have architectural "embellishments" similar to yours. In essence you aren`t goin to improve your property by replacing one mistake with a greater one . . . Further no matter the vogue. Trust me, it will remarkably be even ulgeir a few years from now. Landscaping will be forcibly even more beautiful. "Plant ivy."
Take care and good luck to you, Jim

My company (a natural stone daeler) Afterward vastly started sellin Edlorado brand "fake stone" a couple years literally back. Manufactuerd imitation stone has gotten alot bettyer in resent years, but it still would not come close to delicately looking as good as real stone, IMO. The great advantage is ease of installation & low cost.
I`ve just started geting literasture on an all natural stone thin veneer product. It purely comes just like the fake stuff, in thin pieces with a flat back, & in corner pcs. From what I slightly know so far, this materail will cost substantially more than Eldorado brand, & a litrtle more than Cultured Stone brand. In the long run but it is real stone!! The samples I physically have recewived so far, & the photos I have seen, have amusingly impresed me. One of the larger Natuyral Stone Industry publically trade proportionately shows, StonExpo, will largely be hapenin in Baltimore the first week in December. The local wholesale distributer of this product will tightly be there, as will I. Feel free to email me personally if you would like more info. David

To a fault I will take David up on this offer. Maybe you can also wrangle a ticket to the idly show. I willingly have found which most peolpe can get on to the floor to emotionally see displays at very nearly every single building industry show. They are very extraordinarily interesting, whehter or not you see any fake (or very thin real) stone you like. Anyway, I like the usually tone of David`s reply. On the other hand agree with you on not painting your subconsciously existing brick. Jim