Is your home exterior looking a little rough this spring? We know the winter weather can take a toll on our outdoor surfaces, especially when it comes to high traffic areas like our walkways. The combination of snow, ice, heavy shovelling, and plows can leave cracked, chipped, or loose interlock and slabs behind. To spruce up your exterior, here are some simple ways to enhance your walkway this spring.
Create a Clear Path
A nicely manicured landscape can drastically improve the curb appeal of your home, but having a well-defined pathway can make it even more eye-catching and inviting. You can create a clear outline by keeping your grass and plants neatly trimmed, leaving a border of space between the pathway’s edge and the grass to give it more definition. Also, adding a few solar lights along the entranceway can create a cozy and inviting look while making it easier to see the path at night. These simple steps will enhance your entranceway instantly, making it appear vibrant and sharp.
Customized Interlock Design
Whether you have old concrete that’s cracked or old stones that are dull, chipped, and battered, having a crumbling entranceway can be unsafe and unattractive. And if you plan to list your home on the market in the near future, it won’t help when you want to attract potential buyers. The walkway is one of the first things that people notice before entering your home, which means it really counts when creating those first impressions. To ensure your entranceway leaves a good impression behind, replace your weathered walkway with a customized interlock design. Whether you want a completely new look or just to enhance your current walkway, our contractors will work with you to create a flagstone design that matches your exterior for a stunning final look.
Add Vibrant Vegetation
To highlight your new customized interlock, consider adding a few vibrant plants and vegetation alongside it. Using vivid colours and various sizes will capture the eye and attract it along the pathway as well for a cohesive, picturesque display.
Tiered Garden Design
Pavers really are a simple and effective way to dress up any exterior, especially along any areas that you want to show off during those weekend get-togethers. For a more elaborate and luxurious touch to your front exterior, a tiered flagstone design might be an ideal choice to spruce up your walkway. You can choose to include wide tiered steps or tiered garden beds alongside your walkway for a modern and sophisticated look. A custom path design like this will add value to your home and offer durable, long-lasting results with minimal maintenance required.
Connecting Your Driveway and Patio
Driveways, in particular, can sustain a lot of damage throughout the winter season thanks to all of the salt, ice and, shovelling. If yours is past the stage of repair, why not continue your interlock design all throughout your front exterior? Flagstone is naturally durable and tough, especially when it’s installed over old concrete. It also provides better traction for your vehicles and foot traffic since water doesn’t impact the surface or make it slippery. You get an attractive surface that’s durable and safer.
Spruce Up Your Entranceway
Since the walkway leads up to your front door and entranceway, it’s a good idea to spruce up this area of your exterior too. Replace your front door if it’s old and cracked, add modern address numbers on your façade, install a light sconce to illuminate the porch, and finish it off with modern planters and some evergreens, or an arrangement that you prefer on either side of the door. All of these additions combined will create pops of colour, texture, and light for a truly impressive welcoming each time you arrive home.
Add Mulch
Another quick tip that’s commonly used to enhance the definition of a landscape and walkway is adding mulch. Mulch is widely used by professional landscapers not only to protect vegetation from the sun but to also create a touch of contrast to the gardenscape and make the exterior look well-manicured. You can find a variety of different hues of mulch to choose from at your local garden center. Apply along garden beds or to border your walkway.
Whether your concrete slabs are in need of repair or if you’re considering having a new flagstone design installed along your driveway, contact the masonry experts at GWS Masonry. We can tackle all of your masonry needs, including foundation repairs, brick and stone repointing, flagstone walkways, chimney rebuilds, fireplace refacing, and more. Contact us today to learn more about our services and rates.