Ugly concrete path

[ACurlyWurly]

I have finally hidden my ugly pebble dash garage and dug up the weeds and my garden is the best it has ever been but now I am faced with the poured concrete ugly garden path and patio!
how can I hide this? the path and patio is about 40 years old and is cracked, bowed and broken.
I do not want to remove it as this will be too big a job with a 12 m2 patio area and a long path, and it is all in the right place.
I have ideas of covering it in some kind of tile or slab but am unsure how to go about doing this. Has anyone done it before or can anyone give me inspiration?

What is it bordered by? If you erected some kind of retaining edge you could put slate or gravel down. I think if you want to tile over it, it would need to be even.

If your patio is reasonably flat you could cover it with decking tiles, such as these ones:

www.diy.com/departments/outdoor-garden/decking/decking-tiles/DIY585091.cat

I have some covering my ugly concrete patio and they were super easy to fit.

You can’t normally fit slabs on an old concrete patio as the base needs to be very flat for that. These tiles are made of small pieces of wood on a rubber backing, so there’s a bit more give.

I'm watching with interest because I too have the same issue.

I was thinking of laying pebbles or even painting the patio but I'm not sure if this is even possible.

Um well ,this is a bit out there but how about using something like these moulds
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to achieve something like this
www.hometalk.com/8348940/gorgeous-diy-stamped-concrete-tile-driveway-for-less?r=1

Thank you for your responses.

The path is bordered with grass on one side and slate on the other.

the patio area is fairly uneven where it has sunk over time.

I was toying with embedding pebbles into more concrete on top (inspired by a recent Spanish trip)

the stamped tiles look cool, not sure how easy it will be but will have a look at those for inspiration!

I know you don't want to remove, but can you replace? Ultimately it's the best solution. We had an old council slab path that was awful, we had it dug up and replaced with sandstone in the exact same place. Made a huge difference.

I had my ugly old patio done last year.
I had edging put around where the new was to go up to then left the ugly in place and used a bed of type 2 and then marine sand to lay block paving over the top.
Easy to do but you will need to hire a whacker plate.

I wonder if ,with the pathway at least ,you could chip away bits of the edges and plant stuff that would soften the edges .

I have this www.thegardenhelper.com/brass_buttons.html flourishing away on the edges of an ugly paving stone path .

Or not chip away and just have thyme or something trailing over the edges ?

"Embedding pebbles on to more concrete" please share, how do you mean?

Luv2chat2U - I saw this in Spain (pic of street view from google) my friend lives out there and is currently doing similar in her garden. you build a mosaic with pebbles but I am not sure if i can manage it as it will be huge! also found 2nd pic on google images and i love the effect

I really like that !

me too Peridito if you use river pebbles (I think thats what they are called) they will be smooth under bare feet too

I imagine it would need quite a quantity of pebbles though ,which would work out expensive .

I think I might have a go by doing an edge to get my hand in/give it a go .