One of the most important considerations during your landscape design process is choosing patio pavers. Whether your home has a more rustic style or a more contemporary style, there is a wide variety of patio pavers ready to fit your design aesthetic. The process is fun (you will have a great time deciding the color scheme and patterns of your pavers) but it can be overwhelming, with so many choices. Here are some fitting ways to use patio pavers in your landscape design in Glenview and Highland Park, IL.
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Pair Pavers With Your Home
No matter the building and design style of your home, there are always colors and styles of patio pavers that complement its style. You could choose patio and walkway pavers to blend in with the overall color scheme of your home, but sometimes a contrast can be a tasteful choice. For contemporary-type homes, trending choices often include muted colors like grays and beiges and are generally larger, with perfectly straight lines. For more rustic-type homes, many homeowners choose classic bricks, which are smaller and can provide a more detailed visual texture with lots of earthy tones.
Pair With Your Landscape
Consider the most prevalent shades of color found in your natural landscape to beautifully blend your patio with the landscape. These are the colors that fit best as you design your home’s landscape and start to design a patio. All of your patio pavers should fit within this color scheme as rock color can vary greatly in the span of just a few miles. If you have a grand and expansive landscape with features few and far between, you could opt for large-format, minimalist pavers. If you have a compact and cozy landscape with lots of features, you could opt for smaller brick pavers. While traditional wisdom says that light colors are best for small spaces, also consider the contrast between light colored pavers and the surrounding nature: too much contrast will actually make a small space feel even more constricted.
Include Accents and Borders
The most visually attractive paver patios utilize 2-3 different pavers with varying sizes and shapes. You can use a different paver to create accents that draw the eye to different spaces. For example, use rectangular pavers in one section that will house a big outdoor table while the “path” around it flows through with different, smaller squares pavers. Borders, on the other hand, can have bold color differences from the main parts of the patio that help make the entire patio visually striking.
Mirror Local Stone
The natural stone present in the hills, forests, and plains of Illinois and the surrounding region is perfectly suited for your landscape. The color scheme present in the limestones, slates, sandstones, and granites from the region will help you give your entire landscape a gorgeous and timeless look. Slate, for instance, is famously used in the pillars of grand buildings at universities and its steely bluish-gray color scheme and is known for being impervious to water. Granites pair excellently with slate in both color and texture to make a visually striking outdoor living space. Meanwhile, limestone and sandstone have a lighter and earthier color scheme in which pavers can make up a gorgeous and colorful patio. There are many paver choices that mimic the look of natural stone, but will save on labor costs since they are precision-cut, and lightweight - therefore easier to install than natural stone.
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