The practical, cheap and beautiful garden path, do it yourself!

Buy cheap garden slabs and gravel

Make the path of your garden or entrance to your house.

An essential thing about the entrance path to your house or garden is that it is always passable, even on days of intense and prolonged rain.

Another equally important aspect is aesthetics, that the path or entrance to the house is beautiful, it is the first thing that your friends will see and step on when they enter and we do not want them to get a bad feeling.

Options for the perfect garden path or path:

  • loose gravel
  • Garden slabs surrounded by decorative gravel
  • Japanese steps surrounded by gravel
  • Gravel secured with gravel stabilizer
  • Colored draining concrete
  • Plank pavement fixed with mortar
  • Plank pavement surrounded by gravel
  • Gravel pavement with resin, draining.
  • Cobblestones

Each of the options has different advantages and prices, everything will depend on the importance of the path you want to make, the design of the rest of the house and the budget you want to spend.

Garden path with loose chamotte

For contemporary projects, Vetonek porcelain stoneware slabs give an original touch with a strong aesthetic impact. In any other project, slate always causes a spectacular result due to the beauty of slate with a natural finish and its powerful black color that creates beautiful contrasts.

The cheapest and simplest option is to place loose decorative gravel. Simply place a good anti-weed mesh and distribute the gravel. It shouldn't take you more than an hour to do so and the result is spectacular. The anti-grass mesh is important so that water and air reach the soil and allow it to "live", avoid concrete floors if possible.

Garden path with flagstones as a Japanese step

To place the Japanese steps, garden slabs and paving stones, it is enough to place a bed of sand to keep them in place in a secure and stable manner. It is best that the sand bed be the same shape and size as the flagstones or pavers, to prevent weeds from growing in that sand.

Any of the options we talk about in this article are about practical, aesthetic, ecological and economic solutions, especially if you do the work yourself, they are simple jobs, you don't need experience, you just want to do it, the effort will make May you enjoy your home even more and the result will surprise you, enjoy!

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