Patio Paver Designs That Complement Your Outdoor Living Area

Upgrading your outdoor space with beautiful and durable patio pavers adds richness and value to your home. The material, color, and texture you choose for your exterior improvement can make a notable difference in the impression you wish to convey. Whether you decide between brick or stone hardscapes, tumbled or smooth, slate or flagstone, your choices should always compliment the style of your home or building.

Of equal significance in your patio paver choices is the design pattern. Paver design should also complement home features without “clashing” with other elements of the exterior. Paver patterns can notably impact the overall beauty and interest of your outdoor oasis.

As with any other home improvement project, the key is to plan ahead and visualize the area as an artist would imagine a work of art. Envision the area to be paved in different looks and patterns and try to imagine how you would like the final result. Consult with experts like ProCoat Systems in Denver and check out other projects to determine what might work best.

Practice different patterns in advance to help visualize the result.

After all, your patio will become an integral part of your property, much as the siding and roofing, and can help or even hurt the value of your home.

Patio Paver Designs to Think About

Depending on the area to be paved, homeowners may choose to be conservative in their hardscape design. Alternatively, they may wish to integrate artistic patterns that may be more eye-catching but require considerably more time, effort, and expense to execute.

Conventional, yet frequently used  patterns for patio pavers are:

• Runner-type Pattern: rectangular and square pavers placed in a linear, offset pattern in parallel rows.
• Herringbone Pattern: brick paver rows run at a 45-degree orientation with each alternating brick at 90 degrees to the previous in a fishbone or herringbone pattern
• Random Pattern: while not truly random, square and rectangular pavers are interlocked in a right-angled, repeating pattern from beginning to end.

Curving and bordering are additional considerations for paving projects. Creating a curved pattern for your patio or installing a meandering paver pathway to the patio or deck requires some exceptional skill in cutting and shaping individual pavers. Finishing with a clean, smooth line is essential.

Bordering the entire patio with a different color paver can give the patio or walkway a more elegant and finished appearance.

Contact ProCoat Systems in Denver

ProCoat Systems offers a complete range of world-class paver products. Depending on the type or style of your home and projected patio, ProCoat will have the best option. Check out the stone and masonry products and paver ideas on the ProCoat website to help in your selection.

For more information, call the experts at ProCoat Systems at (303)-322-9009.

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Patio Pavers in Denver—Let’s Talk Aesthetics

One of the most trenchant criticisms of modern construction—a suffocating sameness—extends down to the choice of patio pavers in Denver. Often, even when there is some attempt by the developer to create differentiation in the houses of a development, the residents soon discover that the cookie cutter is still at work on their patios and walks.

There is a choice out there to break up the geometric visual monotony of most patio pavers in Denver—Belgard’s Mega-Arble series.

There is no rule of architecture or landscape design that says that patios and walks made from interlocking patio pavers need be square or rectangular, with neatly cut off or bordered edges. In fact, before transportable poured concrete was a reality, a hardscape for outdoor entertaining, or a walkway from the house to the garden shed, was made from cut stones that were emplaced into prepared soil by hand.

Belgard’s Mega-Arble is an interlocking patio paver system that is perfect for Denver. Here we appreciate the rough-hewn beauty our natural environment has to offer. From an aesthetic standpoint, this natural look abhors angularity and perfect symmetry. This is why Mega-Arble is a great compromise—it’s still interlocking and laid out geometrically—only in a triangular pattern called “three stone tessellated,” that is to say a “cloverleaf.” If you remember your grade school geometry, four equilateral triangles make a square, albeit in this case one with irregular edges on the perimeter.

Along with meticulous molding of the pavers themselves that alłow the edges to mate together in various orientations, the tessellated layout is the entire visual trick of Mega-Arble. If you or your clients, want to not undermine the illusion by laying out a bounded geometric shape, particularly on walkways, you lay the Belgard Mega-Arble in a winding path that follows the contours of the landscaping rather than dominate its way over it in a straight line. Just trim the irregular edge that reveals there is a pattern at work, or obscure the edges with soil, decorative rock, or bark dust.

The end result is patios and walkways that break out of the ordinary while still offering the ease of installation and care that interlocking patio pavers offer in Denver. No cracking or frost heaving like poured concrete can face. Like we said, these are the perfect patio pavers for Denver.

Contact ProCoat Systems of Denver to see these and other great pavers in our contractor pavilion, and discuss the product’s technical information with one of our seasoned specialists.

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