Walkways guide your visitors from the street to your door. They also guide your visitors from the patio to the back of your property. The walkways should not only serve the purpose, they should also be beautiful to look at. To help you out here are walkway ideas that you should put into consideration:
Cedar and loose fill
These materials are ideal for a garden path. To construct the walkway you should start by buying 18-inch cedar shakes and hammer them into place in order to layout the edge of the walkway. To inhibit the growth of weeds and grass you should lay a landscape barrier at the base.
After this you should pour 2-3 inch layer of wood chips, crushed stone, wood mulch or crushed shell.
You should note that there are many walkway designs that you can go with. You can come up with your own designs or hire a walkway designer to design them for you.
Stone
There are many types that you can use in your walkway. The cool thing is that you don’t have to buy expensive stones. There are a number of cheap walkway stones that you can go for. These include: embedded and prefabricated.
You can also gather natural stones from around your property and secure them into the ground. To hold the pieces in place you should first line up the unique edges of each stone in a mosaic design.
Another option you can go with is pebble walkways. The good thing with these tiny stones is that you don’t have to root them in the dirt to create a path. You only need to dig a shallow trench. To make it stable you should line the path with wooden planks after which you should dump the pebbles inside.
Roll out
They come in different materials including: teak, southern pine, cedar and composite. They are often held together with flexible plastic backing and roll out on almost any surface including sand, grass, mulch and other surfaces that are usually difficult to walk on.
While these walkways are great, they aren’t ideal for permanent installation as they tend to rot when left outside for long.
Conclusion
These are a few walkway ideas that you can go with. For ideal results you should work with an experienced walkway contractor.