Lets talk hardscape design!!

Let's take a minute to talk about the design of this project, plus some tips for you when you're designing yours. One of the challenges that we had is the free form shape of the pool that's existing. We want to go around that complementing it, picking up some of those curves. So, we decided to incorporate two circular features on either end of the patio to kind of bring everything together, incorporate some of those curves. Another tip is mixing different shapes and sizes. So, we got quite a few different pavers going in here, but we decided to just keep it to three colors. They're all in the same palette. So, we have grays and we have blacks, and they all work together, so it looks really natural. It's not too busy because we have so many different pavers going in. So, inside the circle, we used a tile stone by Nicolock 6x 24. And then in the main section, we used the Alpine Contemporary 24x 36. So, that larger format. And just by contrasting the size, it adds a really cool depth to the design without changing it up too much because they're both the same color. With all the curves, that usually means a lot of cutting. So, one way to minimize that was to use the mosaic paper in our circle inlay. Those are really nice because they add a cool kind of cobblestone look to it. And they're free form, so you don't have to have any cuts. You just lay out your perimeter and then you lay inside of that. There's not going to be any cuts. So, it's a little bit like a puzzle, but turns out really cool. And again, no cuts there. So, we try to minimize that. Going around a pool, there's going to be a lot of cuts. But, however we can minimize that is always a win. [Music]