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.

This post was originally published at http://www.procoatsystems.com/patio-paver-designs-complement-outdoor-living-area/

Planning a Patio with Pavers

Patios built with quality pavers offer many advantages over other types of surfaces. Available in a wide range of attractive styles and colors, a well-installed paver patio can add a delightful ambiance to outdoor living areas.

Belgard®, the world leader in paver products, offers a wide assortment of sizes, colors, and textures. Matching the patio to other elements of the home or other exterior features is far easier with pavers than with solid concrete surfaces.

Developing the Plan

In countless instances, Belgard pavers have improved the beauty and value of homes and commercial buildings. Creating just the right atmosphere in your outdoor space requires imagination and vision and, of course, a plan. Imagine the space populated with just the right colors, texture, shapes, borders and accents. Belgard, a world-class partner of ProCoat Systems in Denver, offers a complete selection of options to fit any dream.

The central considerations for choosing the best look for your patio, driveways, and walkways are:

Color: Belgard pavers are available in neutral and natural shades, similar to the various colors of natural stone. Pavers are not intended to impart a stark or overpowering look, but to provide a relaxing and compatible shade that complements the surroundings. Colors range from tans, ivory, various grays, pinks, and combinations of these to harmonize with the exterior of the home or building.

Shapes: Although rectangles and squares have been a standard for pavers for many years, paver designers at Belgard have developed several more shapes to add even more interest to the finished area. A wide spectrum of patterns and themes may be created using diverse and more interesting styles.

Texture: From smooth to tumbled, contemporary to antique, Belgard pavers come in a variety of textures to create a mood and feel that cannot be duplicated with standard paving products.

Borders and Accessories: Once the principal paving style is established, add sparkle to the design with contrasting or complementary borders and accessories. These finishing touches are important and will add drama to your final design choices.

Advantages of Quality Pavers vs Concrete Patios

Particularly in areas where winters may be severe, concrete patios tend to break up and crack eventually. Variability of climate causes expansion and contraction that will result in those unsightly breaks that we see everywhere with concrete surfaces. Pavers, because of the spacing between individual units can manage temperature extremes far better. Whenever a paver does become damaged or unsightly for any reason, individual units can be replaced easily.

Also, due of the varied colors, shapes, and textures of pavers, you can develop a much more artistic and pleasing appearance to your patio than with other materials.

Contact ProCoat for Professional Paver Support

The professionals at ProCoat of Denver are experts in the design and selection of high quality, attractive paver projects. Call ProCoat at 303.322.9009 for answers to any paver questions.

Also, visit the ProCoat website for new ideas for walls, flooring, and exterior claddings at http://www.procoatsystems.com/.

This post was originally published at http://www.procoatsystems.com/planning-patio-pavers/

Outdoor Porcelain Pavers: Stunning Porches, Patios, and Terraces

Easy to install and durable, beautiful porcelain pavers from ProCoat Systems are available in a broad selection of styles and sizes. Create a clean and elegant look in your outdoor space with Belgard’s skid-resistant, easy-to-clean porcelain pavers. Perfect for high traffic areas, the pavers require no grout or adhesives and may be applied to just about any surface.

Styles and Dimensions

Whether your preference is a marble, travertine, or quartz appearance or you prefer a wooden plank-type style, Belgard porcelain tiles from ProCoat will nicely complement your outdoor living area.

ProCoat’s porcelain paver style is available in seven distinctive shapes and configurations.  The collections include:

●     Ardesie Collection

●     Esprit

●     Quarziti 2.0

●     Stones 2.0

●     Sundeck

●     Na.Me

●     Noon

Each paver collection offers differing lengths and widths to match just about any preference. Easy to install and capable of fitting into tight spaces, these durable pavers are only ¾“ thick yet capable of withstanding high breakage loads of 2000 pounds.

The collections all include a range of patterns and colors. Deciding which porcelain paver is best for your particular situation will depend on how the material is to be used, the color of your home and surrounding structures, and the mood you would like to achieve. Porcelain pavers are ideal for larger group entertaining or for surrounding a pool area.  Alternatively, a porcelain paver patio and walkway surrounded by greenery creates a delightful and intimate setting for a family or a small group of friends.

Installation

Porcelain pavers from ProCoat Systems in Denver may be installed without grout or adhesives. The result is a beautiful covering that does not require specialized labor to complete. Outdoor porcelain tiles may be applied on terraces and roofs with raised supports and may even work on leveled gravel, dirt, sand, or grass surfaces.  The products are excellent for patios, areas surrounding pools, outdoor kitchens, walkways, and even driveways.

Contact the Experts at ProCoat Systems

Whether you are a do-it-yourselfer or will be working with a residential professional, contact ProCoat for more information regarding the many styles and colors of Belgard Porcelain Pavers. ProCoat’s experts can help you to determine the right style, shape, and color for your use. For a patio, walkway, pool deck, or other feature, low-maintenance, highly durable porcelain pavers are a practical and enduring solution.

Call ProCoat Systems at 303.322.9009 and visit their website. ProCoat has stone or hardscape solutions for indoor or outdoor projects using a broad menu of porcelain, stone, or cultured stone products. 

This post was originally published at http://www.procoatsystems.com/outdoor-porcelain-pavers-stunning-porches-patios-terraces/

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.

This article was originally posted at http://www.procoatsystems.com/patio-pavers-get-aesthetic-design-possible/