About A House - Exterior Walkways & Patio

The front, back and side walkways and patios were poured this week. The gang worked hard on the form works prior and it took about a week to get it all done. Together with the garage floor, 1200 sq ft of cement was poured!?!

Here's the finished form work all around the day prior to the pour....

Top view of the backyard, walkway from garage and recycling area towards the house. Our patio is in front of the garage.

Entrance landing for the suite

Walkway on the side of the house

Front walkway

We were a little apprehensive about some much concrete in our yard as it may look extremely cold and industrial. We researched into how we can integrate some natural elements to soften its application and came across this Landscaping Network video. It inspired us to add a wider channel in each section to add small rocks or soft ground covers.

Here's the walkway after the pour on Sept 18...

This is looking from the front entry back out onto the walkway.

The garden view from the suite patio. The other patio in front of the garage is our patio.

We spent the next day keeping the cement wet to prevent cracks. I helped out with that to make myself useful! Ha! Ha!