When planning the arrangement of the areas around your house, you should be guided by one of the most important principles, namely: maintaining the unity of style. This will ensure that the house and its surroundings will form a coherent whole. This principle applies to all elements used in the design of the house surroundings, including the pavement. Modern style architecture will require the use of different types of stones or slabs than those in the traditional style.
Let the surface reflect the simple or minimalist character of the building and take regular forms with right anglesand shapes. Do not be fooled into thinking that the regular is monotonous. Surfaces of this type often surprise us with a combination of interesting arrangements and patterns.
If the architecture of your house is rather traditional, with a gable or multi-hipped roof, columns, porches or dormers, you should choose large, medium or small paving stones.
Use them for making surfaces reflecting the character of the building. Choose the classic elegance of washed surfaces or the beautiful expressiveness of color melange; paving stones with straight or irregular shapes and surfaces, which refer to nature, use delicate paths and patterns.
A good way to maintain space integrity is to use the same surface material around the house. The perfect solution is to use material which is characterized by a high degree of versatility and which can be used in various most important house surroundings (driveway, sidewalk, terrace, garden). The use of the same surface around the house, e.g. paving stones or concrete slabs, will make it an arrangement composition frame unifying the house surroundings.
When deciding on the use of concrete elements, we must always pay attention to their appropriate thickness. It depends on the load to which the surface is going to be subjected (we can apply different stones on sidewalks and different ones on driveways).
In order to make the house surroundings coherent, we can use the same materials on the surfaces around the building (terrace, driveway, sidewalks) as on its facade (e.g. concrete). A bigger arrangement potential requires a more difficult solution, i.e. skillful combination of various materials. In this case, harmony will be ensured by selecting them on the basis of color similarity. Well, unless you deliberately opt for contrast.
The harmonious perception of the space around the house is undoubtedly influenced by the color of the used pavement. As a rule, it should be matched to the color of the roof, facade or some other element prevailing in its surroundings. When deciding on the color of concrete stones or slabs, you should also be careful not to choose to many colors. A good solution is to limit yourself to a maximum of 3 colors connected with each other in a harmonious way. The use of concrete stones or slabs of similar shape and color on surfaces around the house will allow for visual integration of all spheres around the house.
House style: modern
Color shades: white, gray, graphite, beige
Designation: driveways and car parks, walkways, terraces, garden/paths/alleys
House style: modern, traditional
Color shades: white, gray, graphite, beige, brown, red / orange
Designation: driveways and car parks, walkways, terraces, garden/paths/alleys, roads
House style: modern
Color shades: white, gray, graphite, beige, brown, red / orange
Designation: driveways and car parks, walkways, terraces, garden/paths/alleys
Color shades: gray, graphite, beige
Surface type: Royal