Backyard Paradise: Open Floor Plan for the Great Outdoors

Kennith Bogan

This week, we’re in Charlotte, North Carolina, to generate a wonderful out of doors area for our Backyard Paradise contest winners.

Courtney Claugus was chosen as the lucky winner of our Backyard Paradise contest, so we’re providing her and her spouse Adam’s yard a makeover with assistance from our good friends at Quikrete and Pavestone.

Read through on to learn about some of the projects we tackled. 


Pavestone Avant XL paver patios in greystone
These significant, gray linear pavers enhance the Claugus’ modern home. (3 Echoes Written content Studio)

Make Two Paver Patios

Two is much better than one particular! And in this, case, two paver patios give extra room for out of doors dwelling! 

We designate one particular patio for seating and a further for eating — like an open up ground approach for the excellent outside.  

Crews from Quikrete, Pavestone and a regional construction business establish the dual patio setup. The to start with patio extends from the present concrete patio, and the next is on the other side of the property. 

Worker uses compacter to compact paver base for a patio
Paver base presents a sound basis and also raises the pavers to be even with the concrete patio. (3 Echoes Written content Studio)

They to start with lay out the footprint for the patios, then add 4 inches of paver base to create the basis.

Level running over paver sand
Leveling the paver sand assures an even patio surface. (3 Echoes Articles Studio)

Immediately after compacting the paver foundation, they include a single inch of paver sand, then use a stage to make the surface area even.

Worker laying Pavestone Avant XL pavers
Workers use a string to guarantee the lines stay even throughout the size of the patio. (3 Echoes Articles Studio)

The patios are created with Pavestone’s Avant XL pavers. These huge, 16-by-16-inch patio stones have the appear of big format plank pavers. The bogus joints on the gray pavers make thoroughly clean traces, so they go very well with Adam and Courtney’s modern-type dwelling. To incorporate some line wide variety, the crew rotated each paver to make crisscrossed traces.

Paver patio border edging
Lesser pavers create a border all around the massive pavers. (3 Echoes Articles Studio)

At the time the big pavers are laid, the crew marks a line where by the border will get started and lower it with a concrete noticed. Then, they lay the lesser border pavers in a soldier program sample. 

Brush pushing sand over paver patio
Just like grout coloration matters when laying tile, paver sand color will make a variation on a patio. (3 Echoes Information Studio)

The past step is filling the joints. We use a granite screening to enhance the pavers as perfectly as the house’s shade. for fine. 

Stepping patio stones next to a concrete slab and flower border
These matching pavers produce stepping stones to unite the two patios. (3 Echoes Content Studio)

Just after the patios are comprehensive, we location a couple pavers involving them to create stepping stones, so the two are united.


Pavestone Rumblestone outdoor fireplace
The out of doors fire turns into the ideal focal stage for this seating area. (3 Echoes Content Studio)

Create Outside Fire

Every single seating location requirements a focal place, so we make an outdoor hearth.

We use Pavestone’s Rumblestone Outside Hearth Package in Greystone. Ahead of we assemble the hearth, we lay 8 inches of paver foundation, compacting it in levels, so we have a durable basis.  

Setting up this hearth is straightforward because the package consists of a established of coloration-coded drawings that element which blocks go where on each and every move.

Rumblestone fireplace blocks with adhseive
The fireplace is held jointly just by the excess weight of the stones and some building adhesive. (3 Echoes Articles Studio)

We don’t need to have any mortar to create this fire mainly because the blocks are held in spot applying Quikrete Innovative Polymer Development Adhesive.

Wood mantel on a Pavestone Rumblestone outdoor fireplace
Pavestone agent Chris Claire uncovered this wooden mantel at his mother’s dwelling. (3 Echoes Content Studio)

After the fireplace is designed, we incorporate a mantel working with a recycled piece of wooden. It softens up the really hard edges of the stone and warms up the house.


Shade sail over paver patio and outdoor dining table
We put in the shade sail hooks on the property a little bit better than the kinds on the put up so we can match the slope of the home’s roof. (3 Echoes Information Studio)

Set up Shade Sail

The paver patio for eating provides tiny shade, so we set up a shade sail to make the place far more at ease.

1st, we dig holes for our two 6-by-6 posts that will guidance the shade sail. We set wood posts in the floor applying Quikrete Quickly-Location Concrete, then surround them with pavers to match the patio.

Brush staining cedar wood plank
This stain matches the present outdoors columns. (3 Echoes Content material Studio)

To match the posts to the residence columns, we stain items of tough-sawn cedar and wrap them above the wooden columns. Before we nail the wood around the posts, we insert some spacers to keep the cedar planks from bowing. Wrapping these 6-by-6 posts not only tends to make them glimpse more substantial, but it also hides the cracks that are inevitable with strong posts. 

Danny Lipford drills a wood beam for a shade sail
The major horizontal beam unites the two posts. (3 Echoes Content Studio)

To sign up for the two columns, we build a horizontal box beam with longer parts of 1-by-8-inch cedar on the floor before we elevate it into place.

Subsequent, we connect two hooks to the major of the posts for 50 % of our shade sail, then attach an additional two to the side of the house for the other two corners of the shade sail.

Then, we set up all those hooks somewhat higher to give the shade sail a slope and match the angle of the roof. 

Observe: Setting up a Shade Sail 


Danny Lipford and Chelsea Lipford Wolf with Backyard Paradise winners Adam and Courtney Claugus and their dog Kendrick.
Danny Lipford and Chelsea Lipford Wolf with Yard Paradise winners Adam and Courtney Claugus and their pet Kendrick. (3 Echoes Material Studio)

Put up-Output Views

Courtney and Adam experienced a great backyard, but they didn’t have a great deal out of doors residing house to love it. With just a modest included concrete pad and a few of chairs, their outside entertaining properly was really confined.

Backyard with small concrete patio
Adam and Courtney experienced a large yard but minor space for entertaining. (3 Echoes Content material Studio)

Now they have not one particular but two great Pavestone patios that give a good deal of house for leisure. 1 is just the ideal dimension for out of doors eating less than the go over of the shade sail we additional, and the other offers a huge room to relax with close friends.

backyard with two paver patios and a shade sail
By incorporating two paver patios, we’ve a lot more than doubled the outside entertaining house in this backyard. (3 Echoes Material Studio)

The Rumblestone fire provides a focal place with loads of character and is sure to be extremely well-known on individuals chilly nights. Additionally, the big structure pavers complement the modern home’s shade and character.


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