Garden paths with own hands

When finalizing the site, but one of the most important is the stage of the design of the tracks. Today, summer residents try not only to plant a good and abundant harvest, but to create a cozy design of their site. The decoration of the garden paths plays a very important role in the arrangement of the villa.

How to make a garden path: tips for selecting

Take this process creatively, but you still have to comply with the rules. There are several important points when creating garden paths with your own hands.

1. All the tracks that you lay out around the house, should have elements of the facade. In other words, one of the materials used should smoothly descend from the front of the house or porch to the ground and go into the path.
2. The further the path from the house is, the less we use the elements of finishing the house. Remember that all the options for paving should be harmonious and combined with each other. If the garden is divided into zones, then for each it is necessary to choose your own version of the path.
3. When you decide to make a garden path with your own hands, select all materials in advance and carefully plan their location. Consider that in one design the path should not have more than three color accents.
4. Try to lay trails where they are really necessary, to rely only on the aesthetic component is not worth it.
5. Before laying, prepare a good drainage so that your paths are always dry. In addition, it is necessary to correctly choose the angle of the slope of the path to its outer edges, then the water will flow unhindered and not stagnate.

How to make a garden path: types of garden paths

There are several options for the design of the section by paths, depending on the materials used. The garden path made of wood is very popular recently. A real ornament for the site in the style of the country will be the garden paths from the spits of the tree. To make such an option, it is necessary to prepare a sawn wood, a powerful saw, sand with polyethylene film and linseed oil. The thickness of the spits of the tree, from which the garden path will be made, should be about 15 cm. The billets are treated with pre-heated boiling olive oil and allow them to dry out. Then mark the location of the track and dig out a layer of soil in 45 cm. Lay the polyethylene and fill it with sand. On the compacted sand lay out the workpieces. The structure is covered with another layer of sand and watered.

For paving garden paths use a special road brick - clinker. Its surface is rough and it has a thickness of 4 cm more than ordinary brick. There are several options for paving. The most commonly used spoon dressing (the joint of two bricks falls in the middle of the third), the "herringbone" (adjacent bricks are laid at right angles to each other), tile bandage (masonry is carried out without bandaging the seams).

Not bad looks a path of gravel. For this purpose, the pebble - pebbles, run by water, is best. Gravel is also allowed. If your site is decorated in oriental style, then it will look fine light marble gravel. Beautifully looks on the site of crushed shale. The only drawback of such a path is that it can not be cleaned from snow and ice in the cold season, and it's quite difficult to drive by it.

The most common option - a path of concrete. Concrete garden paths are easy to make by oneself. They do not require special care and are durable. The material is durable and allows you to make both smooth transitions, and complex twisting vortices.

If you have a creative vein and a lot of free time, you can try to make garden paths from plastic bottles - and be sure that none of your neighbors have this.