There are so many items for paths, I used stepping stones that you have to dig out the soild (save it for bare spots in your lawn). Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, ect sell so much different types and shapes. You will have fun just deciding with to pick. Hope you have lots of fun !!!
You will need a weed block material, path edging material, and a path making material. Take marking spray or rope to lay out your path. 2 to 3 ft wide for ease of walking. Then, remove the sod in the pathway. Add weed block, Add the borders put down a bed of sand a few inches thick, add gravel or other stones, wood chips. I did cement pavers with sayings one some by lining a pop can flat with plastic filling it with quick Crete. And scratching a garden related saying on it. None of it was terribly hard to do. Just a bit time consuming.
I've built and re built several pathways. Each had a different design for a different style house or because of changes in my abilities as a walking person (grin).
Out of all of them though, the easiest and least expensive have been rock, pavers, edging stones and our landscaping bark.
1. Cheap and easy. Lay out your desired path with string. Using black edging dig a bit of a trench for to fiver inches, just wide enough to lay your e edging in. Lay down landscaping fabric then cover in landscaping bark. I prefer the reds and browns but it's entirely up to you.
2. Still basically cheap and almost as easy. Lay out your string and edging as before along with a good landscaping fabric........ Fill with pea gravel. We use this because of my issues with falling. Easy too walk on even with a bit of snow or ice. If your walk is on a slope you can place pressure treated 2 x 6 boards horizontally making either a slope or minimal step.
Both of the above ones look great with stone edging as well.
3. More expensive and a little trickier is pavers with gaps. Same beginnings but then you need to add sand. This is the best way to be certain your pavers stay level. Again you can use pea gravel our landscaping bark or up it a notch with clean river pebbles (river rock)
Last is large stone. We were blessed to have friends with lots of acreage they were clearing and it had tons of huge, flat stones. We edged our pathway with local stone made into planters then, making sure each was level set then in the ground. I didn't lay down the fabric this time since I filled the gaps with concrete and then planted hearty mods in areas I deliberate didn't fill with concrete.
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https://www.pinterest.com/explore/garden-paths/?lp=true
Have you Googled "easy paths" or looked on Pinterest yet?
There are so many items for paths, I used stepping stones that you have to dig out the soild (save it for bare spots in your lawn). Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, ect sell so much different types and shapes. You will have fun just deciding with to pick. Hope you have lots of fun !!!
A very easy path is to clear out the grass and create an edge, then put ground cover fabric down finally covering it with bark dust or small pebbles.
You will need a weed block material, path edging material, and a path making material. Take marking spray or rope to lay out your path. 2 to 3 ft wide for ease of walking. Then, remove the sod in the pathway. Add weed block, Add the borders put down a bed of sand a few inches thick, add gravel or other stones, wood chips. I did cement pavers with sayings one some by lining a pop can flat with plastic filling it with quick Crete. And scratching a garden related saying on it. None of it was terribly hard to do. Just a bit time consuming.
I've built and re built several pathways. Each had a different design for a different style house or because of changes in my abilities as a walking person (grin).
Out of all of them though, the easiest and least expensive have been rock, pavers, edging stones and our landscaping bark.
1. Cheap and easy. Lay out your desired path with string. Using black edging dig a bit of a trench for to fiver inches, just wide enough to lay your e edging in. Lay down landscaping fabric then cover in landscaping bark. I prefer the reds and browns but it's entirely up to you.
2. Still basically cheap and almost as easy. Lay out your string and edging as before along with a good landscaping fabric........ Fill with pea gravel. We use this because of my issues with falling. Easy too walk on even with a bit of snow or ice. If your walk is on a slope you can place pressure treated 2 x 6 boards horizontally making either a slope or minimal step.
Both of the above ones look great with stone edging as well.
3. More expensive and a little trickier is pavers with gaps. Same beginnings but then you need to add sand. This is the best way to be certain your pavers stay level. Again you can use pea gravel our landscaping bark or up it a notch with clean river pebbles (river rock)
Last is large stone. We were blessed to have friends with lots of acreage they were clearing and it had tons of huge, flat stones. We edged our pathway with local stone made into planters then, making sure each was level set then in the ground. I didn't lay down the fabric this time since I filled the gaps with concrete and then planted hearty mods in areas I deliberate didn't fill with concrete.
Hope that gives you a few ideas!