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How can I extend my patio without it looking rubbish?

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Karbea · 19/04/2014 19:36

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.

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TheAuthoress · 19/04/2014 20:01

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 · 19/04/2014 20:08

Yes there is grass. What pebble stone things?

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Liara · 19/04/2014 20:22

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 · 19/04/2014 20:22

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 · 19/04/2014 21:03

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 · 22/04/2014 19:33

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 · 23/04/2014 10:06

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.

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