Walkway

You just have to love home improvement. You make one thing better (deck) only to realize that you now need to do something else that you didn't see before (walkway). So now that the deck has a set of stairs that faces the driveway and we're coming and going that way much more often (at least in the summer months), a proper walkway was only a matter of time.

You've seen the deck before and deck after pics in the previous post (scroll down), so we'll just stick to the walkway here. We ordered pavers, gravel, sand, and more sand, which was delivered before the long end of summer weekend. Oh, in addition to the walkway, we also bought some stones (and a couple plants) to dress up the area between the walkway and the house. I'm very proud of this project, I think it looks better in person than the pics show. Here goes:

This one really shows the area in question that we're working on:

And once the materials showed, it was time to dig.


And dig. And fill, and tamp...


and level and tamp. And fill, and level and screed. Then place pavers. Then cut pavers. Then sweep sand on the pavers, hoping it fills the cracks (for the most part, it did).

And finish the edge pattern before tropical storm Hanna. Post-Hanna, prep and landscape the area inside of the walkway. Phew! Looks very good. Barkley loves it!