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Have you been considering lately to landscape your garden and give it an all new look? If it is indeed so, then the stone pathway ideas illustrated in this article are a must see! Just have a look at some innovative ways in which you can use stone to carve stunning garden pathways.

A garden pathway, a narrow path that can be straight or winding, leads one to the porch of the house. You can design a garden pathway to form two or more branches that serve to lead the visitors to interesting landscaping elements in the garden, such as a pristine fountain or a beautiful sculpture. The basic purpose of having a pathway built in the garden, is to offer people a place to walk on, should they wish to enjoy the beauty of the garden or spend some serene moments in the midst of nature. Moreover, in the rainy season, when the garden soil is too soft to walk on, having a pathway can make things a lot easier. But why choose stone for building your pathway, you may ask. While you can use materials such as bricks and concrete, using stone can add an earthy feel to your pathway and make it look natural, like nothing else can.

A pathway may not always be structural and formal looking. A pathway made up of slabs of stone randomly laid, has a natural appeal to it. It is indeed delightful to see such pathways end up in porches of picturesque cottages, winding through bushes of pretty flowers along the way. While conceptualizing the design for your garden pathway, you can consider using different stones for different parts of the pathway. And if you're left wondering where to get the stones from, then you'll be glad to know that you'd easily get them at a stone yard nearby. So, just have a look at the different stone pathway ideas illustrated below and choose one that you feel can change the way your garden looks, forever.

Garden Pathway Design Ideas in Stone
Here we shall have a look at different stone pathway designs and how you can tweak each of them a little to make them fit into your scheme of things. In other words, you can just use the basic elements of a stone pathway design and incorporate them with different elements, to come up with something entirely new for your garden! First of all, we shall look into two types of layouts that you can have. Then we shall find out what are the available options when it comes to the types of stones to be used, and when and how to use them. Sounds interesting? Keep reading...

Stone Pathway Layout Ideas
Layout refers to the general appearance of the pathway and to some extent, its shape. While a pathway can be straight, meandering or one that literally zigzags through the garden, choosing the correct layout is important to make sure the pathway complements the garden and, more importantly, the look of the porch it leads to.

Structured Stone Pathway
A structured stone pathway can be straight or curved but is built such that it has a definite structure, and is much more than just another pathway meandering through the garden! Also termed as formal pathways, structured pathways look different from most conventional pathways due to the fact that they look artificial, as opposed to most pathways that are designed to appear as close to nature as possible. A structured pathway has slabs of stone or concrete, cemented together with no gaps between them. You'll find these pathways in formal gardens that are perfectly symmetrical, and these are designed keeping the rules of geometry in mind.