Front Door Path at Last
We have a corner lot so our driveway isn't actually on 'our street' so even after 62 years this is the first path to the front door from
the mailbox!!
This is one of the projects we totally thought was going to happen in the first six months at the house... now 3 years later we're done with it!
We debated what we wanted to do, our dream was brick pravers but that was going to be cost prohibitive, so then we considered pea gravel but that's too messy for mowing, then one day at Lowes we spotted aggregate 2' x 2' pavers that match our driveway.
We used 12 bigger pavers and 3 smaller pavers to go across our little 'bridge'
Using stakes and rope we laid out the pavers in a straight line. Then we spaced the pavers to match our walking strides, this turned out to be the trickiest part. In the end we had about a 6" gap between the pavers which is a little to much for my stride but any less grass than that didn't look that great. Before we recessed the pavers we left them on top of the grass for a while to test out the stride and to kill the grass to make digging a little easier.
To recess the pavers Andrew dug out a few i inches added, tamped it down, added some base and some sand. Since we knew they would continue to settle we left them a little above ground level perfect for easy mowing.
Budget wise we spent about $200 on pavers plus a few bags of base and sand! What a huge difference in our curb appeal, guess I need to finally plant some flowers in those pots!
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