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Sourcing Materials for Free/Cheap

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6 Genius Landscaping Tips

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To stay within budget, utilize readily available materials for landscaping. Search your property or local recycling centers for items like large natural stones, pavers, or old concrete slabs that can be repurposed. For this project, a single large, flat stone from a pile of pavers is selected as a key accent piece, aiming for a 'less is more' approach to avoid cluttering the small space with too many hard surfaces.

Goal: Acquire landscaping materials without breaking the budget.

Tools and materials

  • Concrete Pavers — Potential patio material, but deemed too 'hard surface' for this specific design
  • Large Natural Stone — Creating an accent piece for the landscape

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We're not trying to bust the break the budget with this thing. So, let's just see what we have on hand. We're trying to make a meal with leftovers. So, I do not want these PA patios underneath there. Too much hard surface. That single stone might make a great accent piece though. Sometimes less is more. We don't have a big space. We've already got a lot of deck and a lot of material down there. We've got more naturalistic that could make a naturalistic patio, but again, it's a more of a hard surface. And here's your standard. No, we don't want any of that. And we've got a cool step right here, but this doesn't look this looks like it's made out of concrete. So, we'd have to put that side down. And that just doesn't look quite as natural as I'd like it to look. Travertine tiles, too much hard surface, natural granite, stone. What would you pick out of all that? PA patio. I want to know what you guys would do. Would you do a wood deck, pavers, stones, blue stones? I think I'm going with the less is more. I'm just going to grab this single one here, pop

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