How can I extend my patio without it looking rubbish?

[Karbea]

Our patio run along the back of our house, but it's only 2 flagstones wide outside the kitchen, whereas it's big enough for a table etc outside the lounge.

I'd love to have a table outside the kitchen and a sofa thingy outside the lounge, but the flagstones are oldish and I doubt I'd be able to match them perfectly and even if I could the colours wouldn't match.

Any ideas what I can do outside my kitchen, that'll look like it was designed that way rather than an add on...

Thank you.

[TheAuthoress]

So is there grass past the flagstones outside your kitchen? You could put some of those pebble stone things down with a nice brick border surround to designate that as the table area?

[Karbea]

Yes there is grass. What pebble stone things?

[Liara]

I would dig up the two flagstones' worth of existing patio in that area and replace it all with something different but which would go well with it - maybe leaving a small border between the two areas which you could plant with thyme or something like that.

[Liara]

Sorry, that's not very clear. When I say go well with it, I mean go well with the part that will remain outside the lounge.

[TheAuthoress]

Gravel was the word I should have used :) like this:
www.diy.com/nav/garden/garden-d-cor/decorative-stones-chippings/Amber-Pearl-Decorative-Stone-Bulk-Bag-10837512

[Ferguson]

Yes, as Liara, says; and rather than trying to match the other part, get something to contrast with it. I always prefer things to have 'sweeping curves' rather than straight and rectangular, so might that be a possibility?

[Karbea]

Yes I think it would need to be, our garden is triangular, so I'd love to do something to minimise the triangularniss of it as well at some point.