A Welcoming Walk: 5 Walkway Design Ideas

Show your guests a warm welcome before they even make it to the door by re-thinking your walkway design. It’s a great way to add character and curb appeal to the front walk, or the backyard landscape.

1. Light the (Walk) Way

Sometimes a simple improvement can significantly boost your home’s walkways – just add light! Not only can you design with light to enhance, color and highlight areas of your walkway, you improve safety and security around your home, particularly during the fall and winter months.

2. Geometric Patterns and Curves

Instead of the straight old concrete line leading from the sidewalk to the front door, try out some curves or turns that enhance the natural beauty of your landscaping. Let the trees and shrubbery have a say in the path direction, or consider geometrical shapes in the design to set off a more modern home design.

3. Color and Texture Paves the Way

Don’t restrict yourself to gray concrete. There are so many walkway design ideas that shine with stones, bricks and pavers that have different textures and colors. You can have a simple interlocking design or go elaborate with inlaid colorful stones that make beautiful designs on their way to your home.

4. Let Nature Guide the Walkway

If you’re updating your walkway, consider updating some of the plants around the walkway too – native Northern Virginia plants that have color and texture year-round can change your walkway into a welcoming, relaxing breath of fresh air anytime of the year.

5 A Sheltered Walkway

In the backyard, turn your walkway into a haven with covered areas. Use trellises decked with colorful vines or climbing roses or beautiful shade trees. There are a host of hardscape options you could use to make your backyard walkway a place to enjoy in spite of the weather!

To spiff up your front and backyard walkways, contact one of the top walkway design companies in Chantilly, VA—AllGreen Landscape Co at (703) 992-8787.