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Install Pathways and Seating Areas

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I built a $50,000 landscape with just $5,000

What happens here

Create pathways and seating areas using recycled flagstones and gravel. Place landscape fabric, using old carpet as a repurposed alternative, underneath the gravel to prevent weed growth. Strategically position flagstones to create a winding path that leads through the area and define a dedicated dining zone. For the dining area, use an existing patio table and chairs, placing them on a leveled gravel base.

Goal: Develop functional and visually appealing pathways and dining zones.

Tools and materials

  • Gravel — Filling pathways and seating areas
  • Old Carpet — Acting as landscape fabric for weed suppression
  • Rake — Spreading gravel and leveling surfaces
  • Recycled Flagstones — Creating pathways and defining areas
  • Shovel — Digging and leveling the ground
  • Wheelbarrow — Transporting gravel and flagstones

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freaking love. [Music] So on a project like this, there is a combination of some new elements, but a lot of it is just old stuff. Um, but everything has the potential to become something even more. Let's just, for example, you may be thinking, "What the hell are you talking about, Dermaky?" Even how you stack the wood can become artistic in a way that adds into the overall look of a project. And I've said to you, practice your landscaping at friends or family's homes because creativity is a muscle. It's something that if you don't use it, you will lose it. And if you are a landscaper, thinking outside of the box is something that it just has to become status quo because every job that we do is going to be different. Let's take a look at some of the some of the materials I've used. Old logs. This was a tree on my property. Now these old logs are benches. Me and my granddaughter sit up there and we look out over the field here. Firewood. Firewood becomes art. As we come in and we look here, we're seeing old stones that I pulled out of a fireplace to accentuate old retaining walls that already existed. All of these plants, well, they were off from a they were just scraps off from a job that we were going to run these over. These would have just been excavator uh byproducts gone gone away. And as we come into here, I was thinking, how do I utilize this space and change this space to create a dedicated oasis? We needed to have focal points. But the focal point had to come from, this is where it gets really critical. You, your focal

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