One step closer on the path to completion

Work for the last few months has been slow going, but there has been progress made, none the less. Specifically, new brick paths.
To create a more welcoming look, and as a convenience to any guests we have, we chose to create a new path that goes from the sidewalk to the door. Before there was just an existing brick path going from our driveway to the door. Seeing as we use that path when we park in the driveway, we decided to keep it. But it needed to be redone.

Plans for the new, guest-friendly path were laid out when we put down the retaining walls and sod as seen in this pictures from a previous post:




You can also see the dirty, weed infested existing brick path that was lower than the rest of the yard because of the work we had done to the level of the yard.



Although it is hard to see in this picture, we created a step on the new path by the sidewalk and then used the same type pavers we used for the sidewalk strip. Then we redid the existing brick path, using the bricks that were already there (to be green and to save green)but in the same herringbone pattern we used for the rest of the brickwork.



While I think it looks a little odd to have the unmatching bricks in the same space, I just could not justify spending more money for new ones. Not to mention that we would have tons of brick laying around. But the biggest factor in our decision to use the existing bricks was that because there are some really unique fire bricks that have been stamped that are just too cool not to use. Before these stamped bricks were scattered about. This time I decided that because of their varying sizes and as a way to highlight them better, I put them down in attention grabbing lines. Here's a close up.




Now that it is all said and done, I think I can safely say that I am a pro at using pavers...oh, and that I am so sick of pushing around sand (into the spaces between bricks) that I am glad we are finished with all things path at the R household!