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Decorative concrete ideas

10/27/2020

 
Creative Concrete Landscape Edging and Pathway Ideas for Your Backyard

Are you looking for different ways to add beauty and functionality to your outdoor landscaping and entertainment areas? Design areas such as raised flower beds, pathways, patios, curbed edging, and much more. Decorative concrete is very versatile gives the home or business owner a plethora of choices and designs. Whether you're looking to build a spacious outdoor patio area or edge your landscape, decorative concrete will be a durable and beautiful choice.

Here are several decorative concrete ideas for you to jump-start your creativity:
  • Stamped Concrete Edging
  • Concrete pavers have been used for edging now, going on many years. The new style and extremely popular service is decorative concrete edging. This is where a crew lays a continuous, even flowing concrete edge to your landscape. A stamped pattern is then pressed into the edging, followed by expansion joints to allow for freezing and thawing. Then come the color and sealant, which gives the edging a natural look while providing protection and durability for many years to come. 


Stamped concrete isn't just pretty; it is very durable and can withstand the worst that nature can throw at it, with very little upkeep. Unlike plastic edging concrete won't wither or get brittle from the sun's ultraviolet rays. And unlike metal edging, concrete won't rust or bend.

  • Raised Concrete Flower Beds 
Raised beds and outdoor entertainment structures have grown immensely in popularity over the years and can provide great contrast and beauty for outdoor entertainment areas or landscapes. Raised flower beds are great for installing a multi-level landscape design. These flower beds can be tied in with raised patios and pathways as well, giving your yard or landscape that extra added flare that will add great beauty to your property.

Concrete is an extremely useful product and can be used to mimic any natural surface. Combing raised flower beds with patios and pathways is just one example of the different combinations that can be used with decorative concrete. A quick google search can really help in getting the creative mind thinking in order to create the project of your dreams.

  • Installing Winding Concrete Pathway
In essence, a concrete pathway is a relatively easy pour that will transform your outdoor landscape or backyard into a beautiful oasis. One added touch that really makes a decorative concrete pathway stand out is adding light and plants to the trail. A person can also add concrete or decorative benches to accent the path and provide sitting areas. Concrete can replicate any natural material, and using concrete to construct your path will reduce your cost and have less maintenance. You simply can't go wrong with a concrete patio.

  • Add Lighting To Your Pathway
Adding lighting is one of the easiest additions you can make to your pathway and landscape that can really take the project to the next level. There are numerous lighting options available for landscapes and outdoor entertainment areas, from embedded LED lights to solar lights and many more. Lighting can be used to accent any outdoor feature or structure. Adding lighting also helps protect against accidents by providing a lighted path, patio, or other outdoor areas.

Whether you're looking to add curbed edging to accent your landscape, raised flower beds, a pathway, or even lighting to tie it all together. Mixing it up and using all the different decorative aspects to pull together a masterpiece is easily doable with today's concrete specialists.



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