Spring is upon us and this is the right time to think about how to do it yourself paving the garden, to give life to an outdoor relaxation area or to create a functional walkway or driveway. The basic steps are a precise design that takes into account the needs, the choice of materials to be used for the flooring and then go ahead for the realization. On the market there are different materials that can be used for beautiful and functional outdoor solutions, but it is possible to create a floor for the outdoors even with recycled materials. If you want to know how to do it yourself to pave a garden on a budget, here you will find the right solutions.
How to pave a garden on a budget with DIY
DIY garden paving with cement gneiss / Grezu
There are several ideas for paving a garden by spending little with DIY.
Stone tiled floor for the outdoor dining area
If you need to create a space for dining or an outdoor living room, the dimensions of the table and chairs or the sofa or sun loungers must be calculated.
If, on the other hand, you need to walk along a road or in a driveway, you should think about how the line should be, connecting the starting point with the final one.
Having established where the floor is to be made, its shape and size, the choice of materials to be used must be made.
A DIY outdoor floor can be made for example with stones, wooden slats, gravel, stones, stoneware tiles, tuff, porphyry, materials that can also be recycled.
The choice must be made both on the basis of one’s abilities and also on the style of the house as some materials go well with a traditional style and others with a modern style.
Paving the garden with wood
DIY garden flooring with reclaimed wood planks / 1001 Gardens
To create a wooden flooring with the DIY, an excavation of the size of the area you want to cover must be carried out and first spread some scree and then a layer of sand, smoothing the surface with a roller.
The wooden slats will be fixed to support strips with galvanized screws, keeping them spaced a few millimeters apart to facilitate the flow of rainwater.
Once the flooring has been created, two coats of impregnation must be applied to ensure a long life of the wood.
But if you want to adopt a faster and even simpler solution, you can use prefabricated wooden squares which do not include support strips because they are already equipped with them.
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Paving the garden with the pallet
Garden flooring made with pallets / Instructables
Wooden pallets, also known as pallets, can be used to make garden floors.
Once purchased, the pallets can be used in various ways: they can be disassembled to use the beams or use the wooden platforms as they are positioned next to each other.
In both cases, we recommend sandblasting the surface and then treating it with an impregnating product that protects the wood and colors it in the desired shade.
Paving the garden with stones or gravel
DIY garden flooring with stones and wooden blocks / Architecture & Design
Often to pave a garden with the do-it-yourself you choose the use of materials such as stones or gravel for which a few centimeters excavation must first be carried out to allow accommodation. In the excavation, a layer of sand must be inserted and then placed over the stones or gravel and containment curbs, perhaps in stone or wood, will also be provided to ensure that the material does not come out.
We point out that this type of flooring is among those that allow a better flow of rainwater, it is the simplest if you want to create an irregular paved area but it is the one that allows less stability if you want to walk or if you want place furniture.
Periodically the stones or gravel will be repositioned homogeneously using a rake.
Paving the garden with stone slabs and gneisses
Paving the garden with stone slabs / Eco Outdoor
A simple method of creating a garden pavement is by laying stone slabs directly on the ground.
Laying the gneiss to create a walkway in the garden / Diy network
The stone slabs must have a thickness of at least 2 centimeters and must be placed spaced apart to ensure that the grass can grow between one stone and the other and give life to a very natural effect. .
DIY checkerboard flooring with stone slabs / My Giant Strawberry
Paving the garden with synthetic grass
Garden flooring with synthetic grass by Leroy Merlin
The outdoor space can also be created using synthetic grass, an ideal and economical choice compared to a real lawn because it has no maintenance costs, is easy to lay and does not suffer from the seasons or the climate.
A synthetic lawn is therefore a valid alternative to any other flooring when you want to maintain a green turf that is always beautiful even in winter or for example in arid areas.
Artificial grass can be laid either on an earth, natural grass or any other material. It is purchased in rolls and the only real care will be to place all the rolls in the same direction.
Thanks to the use of a cutter you can give the shape of the area you want to create and the laying of more rolls can be done using the joining bands to be glued, making sure that the profiles of the rolls match perfectly.
We point out that there are synthetic turf over which sand is distributed evenly, which is then raked to be able to penetrate between the tufts of grass.
Economic driveway outdoor flooring
Self-locking outdoor tiles
When you have to make a flooring for the garden, you need to evaluate the function it has to perform.
If it is to be used for the transit of cars, it is essential that it first of all satisfies certain conditions, namely resistance and solidity.
The best material for drive-over outdoor flooring is self-locking concrete tiles, which cost an average of 13 euros per square meter.
For their installation it is essential to create a concrete screed on which a layer of sand must be spread on which the tiles will be laid, whose joints will be filled by the sand.
Ideas for inexpensive outdoor flooring
Do you want an idea that will transform your garden? Why not think of an outdoor shower by creating a stone floor and a platform made from recycled wooden planks?
Paving with stones and wooden planks
With stones and wood it is also possible to create a walkway, using old salvaged planks:
Flooring for the garden with stones and reclaimed wood / Apartment Therapy
Also interesting is the idea of creating a chessboard with square stone tiles placed according to a geometric pattern:
Paving the garden with checkerboard stones / 1001 Gardens
To amaze everyone, you can create a flooring using the phosphorescent pebbles that light up at night:
Flooring with phosphorescent pebbles
Amaza 300pcs Decorative Stones Luminous Garden Pebbles Aquarium Decorative (Blue & Green)
And what do you think of this solution that sees the use of wooden blocks?
