How to chose brick and stone

Just a quick note about the brick. This is a nice brick. See how you have whole red brick and whole black brick. This brick has a checker board affect. This would not be a good brick to mix with stone, I am not saying it can't be done, but some changes would have to be made. I would use red or a dark buff mortar to tone down the contrast between the brick and mortar. The red mortar will help the black range to drag into the red brick. The stone would have to be a dark rich earth tone color or something in the rich earth tone green color would be interesting. But, anyway this is an example of brick range I would stay away from when talking about stone.