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Please help me revamp this

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Bluegrassy · 29/04/2025 09:45

Just looking for ideas really, mainly around what to do with patio surface.
I jet washed it last year, it's got huge cracks between the slabs, virtually no mortar left or anything. I know if I were to keep them I'd need to sort that, but I don't like them anyway, even when they're cleaned up. They're uneven, different colours, some are smooth, some are pebble dashed. Just a bit ugly.

What would be a not too expensive solution do you think? I thought about painting them with the masonry type paint for paving, but there's all the chemicals to strip first etc.

What would you do? Re-pave? Fix it?
Deck it?

Please help me revamp this
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TianasBayou · 29/04/2025 18:19

Ikea patio tiles might work.

Keroppi · 29/04/2025 18:29

Masonry paint stencil in a nice pattern

Or a nice outdoor rug and tart up your furniture/patio area with potted plants, pergola/big umbrella, solar lights etc so you spend less time looking at the floor Wink

Nettleskeins · 29/04/2025 19:09

Gravel in cracks? Some creeping plants...aubretia, thyme, alchemilla mollis, campanula Porsch.

painting them would be a dreadful mistake

The garden needs something else to draw the eye, then you won't notice them. It's like having a orange pine floor....that expanse of grey will be better broken up by seating, clumps of plants

Nettleskeins · 29/04/2025 19:12

Creepers or wall shrubs on the fence. Planted Edging round some of patio. It needs softening.

parietal · 29/04/2025 22:38

doesn't look too bad to me. I'd have a few big pots with colourful flowers in to draw the eye away from the patio and then it will be fine.

GasPanic · 30/04/2025 09:51

Looks fine to me, I mean it's not the worlds best tiled finish but its OK.

Maybe break it up a bit with a few large pots and try to make the rest of the garden a bit less sterile so it doesn't draw the eye as much.

Alternatively drop £7k on some designer tiling and having it all redone if you have money to burn.

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