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The house is a builder tract house with stucco outside, light beige and some red bricks around the entrance patio and garage door, roof is tile, same light red as the bricks. Has a driveway and a narrow walkway that leads to the driveway with an L shape.
We are doing some addition to the concrete areas. One area is around the entrance to the building (increasing the patio space) and are also going to built a walkway to the pavement/street, the current narrow walkway is not very functional-even though we still make it to the door!
It will have two steps and maybe two decorative columns on the side. The question is what material will fit in best. The options are stamped concrete close to the color of the bricks (the driveway and previous walkway would remain gray). 2nd choice is gray concrete all over with red brick on the sides and edges of the stairs.
The 2nd option would be $600 more. We are looking more for durability (I know it will all crack anyways), ease of maintenance and improving curb appeal. Thanks for reading, any suggestions are welcome.
When we relandscaped our previous house, our existing porch was concrete - we opted to have the porch covered in used brick and the wide curved walkway consisted of concrete slabs with each slab being lined with used brick (and a row of black bricks) which tied the porch, walkway together, shutters and roof together.
I find that concrete naturally ages and looks cool - not a big fan of stamped concrete.
A view from the side:
We did the same thing in our small back yard - concrete lined with used brick
You could actually widen your driveway a bit and then curve and widen your walkway a little - get away from that typical narrow, straight walkway that most houses have although prepare yourself to pay a lot more than $600. I'm not wild about that big shrub at the corner but you do need some low foundation plants between the walkway and garage.
Thanks, you should have seen those shrubs when we bought the house. They were one story tall. Actually we are debating wether to leave a narrow planter between the walkway and the driveway or no. The patio is going to extend half way between the 3rd car garage. The $600 is the additional price for the brick work. We are also pouring some concrete on the side and back and need a retainer wall on one side. So the whole project is pretty pricey. I am only undecided on the walkway design because initially was going to be plain gray concrete but I feel that would be pretty boring.
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