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Sandstone question / WWYD
Just looking for some opinions here...we are finally re-doing the front yard.
We're taking out the various bushes on the left, and planting some dwarf red/yellow twig dogwoods along that line, but set in a few feet. Right next to the sidewalk in front will be a rock bed with a couple small barberry bushes. Along the driveway will be a wider flagstone path. The center is going to be a smaller, flat patch of grass leveled with a short retaining wall.
You can kind of see the weird brick color/pattern on our 70's house. It's a mottled brown/tan, and that isn't going to change.
I'm thinking of mixing chocolate sandstone & buff sandstone in our design. Most of the big "pavers" would be large chocolate pieces, with some small buff pieces in the path and along the borders. The retaining wall would be buff sandstone too.
WDYT? Would it work to mix the chocolate & buff sandstone?
ETA: Photos of the 2 types (although we'd spread them apart for a path)
Re: Sandstone question / WWYD
We just installed a large flagstone path in our front yard last year. I would just stick with one color because there is a lot of variation in each type anyway. The flagstone we got is called Buckstone and is mostly tan with a lot of gray, red, and even purple tones mixed in.
You don't need to match the brick and using only one color will help lead your eye up the path to your house which should be the main focus. Here is one of my big inspiration pictures as an example:
I'm a little concerned that there is so much difference between the two colors that the walk might end up looking a little bit like a giraffe. Although the picture the PP posted does show almost the same color blend and it looks great ...
If you do it, perhaps use 70% chocolate to 30& buff. Does the chocolate have some lighter tones that will help tie the two together?
For the walkway, it would be mostly large chocolate pieces, probably with grass (or other vegetation) in between like the photo above. The edges of my grass area in the middle, and the retaining wall would be buff. I thought it would help to add some small buff pieces to the path to tie it into the rest of the design.
I really like the chocolate, and it's not very common in my neighborhood, which makes me like it more. Plus, I found a couple pallets (~1.2 ton) for $150 (score!), instead of over $400/ton as is normal here. I found some buff for even cheaper, but I wanted it to be a little different.
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Would it be too much of a PITA to just do the parts you know you want chocolate first, then decide once it's in to add the buff or not?
Can you guess who here has trouble visualizing and so does all of her projects in little chunks?
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I'm also concerned about the planting beds- barberry in gravel sounds like a maintenance nightmare. I'd probably not use a deciduous foundation plant, and redtwig dogwoods need a lot of room (sounds like you want to tuck them in tightly to the house).
I agree with you -- the chocolate is beautiful and unusual, and would be a good contrast with the buff you are using elsewhere. Lay out a few feet of the chocolate with a little of the buff and see how you like it. If it looks like the walk in the photo, it will be wonderful.
f you don't use vegetation in between the stones, will you use sand? Mortar? If either of the latter, use a darker color. Otherwise the mortar pattern will dominate the stone and be distracting, rather than tying the walk together.