If you feel like your yard is missing something, consider a customized walkway. There are so many places where a walkway can be placed that easily leads people around your exterior. Walkways can be designed to complement your home, blend with colors or materials, or they can stand out as their own unique entity. If you’re short on pathways, it’s time to think about adding a few that lead to lovely destinations.
1. The Backyard
Heading to the backyard from the driveway? The back door? Chances are, you’re stumbling along on grass, made even worse if you’re carrying items. If guests struggle to make their way to your backyard, it’s time to invest in a customized walkway for safety and convenience.
A walkway can include stairs, lighting, and different surfaces that blend seamlessly with any flat or hilly areas on your property. Guidance to the backyard with a clearly delineated path not only looks great, it adds usefulness and flair to your home.
2. The Pool
The last thing you want is grass and dirt in your meticulously maintained pool. Installing pool decking is a great way to keep the water clean, but if you can’t walk to the pool without stepping on yuck along the way, a walkway is a must-have. This is an opportunity to match the pool decking or step outside that look with a complementary style using pavers, brick, or stone.
Just as the pool decking is designed to be user-friendly so no one slips in a wet area, the walkway can be designed as such too. You’ll have a safe, beautiful addition to an existing backyard oasis.
3. The Front Door
When you have an existing sidewalk to your front door, it’s an element that often goes unnoticed at first. It gets the job done and guides everyone from neighbors to delivery people to your threshold. Eventually, though, these hardworking paths start to wear out from use and weather. You’re not alone if you’re eager to upgrade the main walkway of your home.
This redo is an opportunity to indulge yourself by getting the materials you’ve always wanted as part of the entrance to your space. From stone to wood and gravel, you can create an organic-looking pathway, or you can invest in pavers or flagstone for a sturdy, sleek, modern area to walk upon.
Smart Elements of a Customized Walkway
Your landscape contractor can deliver on all the goals you have for the careful customization of a walkway for your home including:
- Delineating spaces for various activities.
- Creating the illusion of a more extensive outdoor area.
- Transforming unused spaces into newly viable spots.
- Providing safety and accessibility.
- Blending with existing or new softscaping.
- Complementing exterior textures and colors.
Contact Visionary Landscaping in Shelby Township, MI, to schedule a consultation about what you want to achieve at your home. Our experts will provide advice about materials, shapes, necessary and unnecessary elements, and how this addition will transform your home’s activity. Get started on your walkway and see it come to life digitally before it comes to life on your property.
