Paving slabs: 70+ photos on paths, porch, steps, landscape design ideas

Paving tiles is an original way to design a backyard area, allowing you to create a lining of different colors, textures and patterns for tracks and other surfaces.

Types of paving slabs

The most relevant options are:

Plastic. In its manufacture using a sand mixture and polymer compounds. These polymer-sand products have good strength properties and anti-slip properties.
Based on natural stone. It is made by crushing various stones, for example, quartzite, granite, slate, schungite and others. The most expensive solution is a marble based tile finish.
Rubber. Contains rubber crumb as a part, possesses high moisture, frost-resistant indicators and noise-absorbing qualities.
Clinker. For the manufacture of special clay used, calcined at high temperatures. The clinker pavement tile has natural shades, is fire resistant and non-slip.
Concrete. Reinforced concrete tile finish, performed by vibropressing and vibratory casting. These products made of cement are highly durable and are ideal for the design of surfaces exposed to intense pedestrian loads or traffic.

When choosing the type of product, one should take into account the attrition rate, the maximum temperature differences, the expected load, and the budget.

Advantages and disadvantages

This pavement finish has several advantages and disadvantages.

pros	Minuses
It has a huge range of shapes, color and texture solutions.	High price.
Prevents the occurrence of puddles, as excess moisture flows through the seams.	It can be quite slippery and traumatic in cold weather.
It is sufficiently wear-resistant, resistant to UV, precipitation and temperature extremes.	It can be quite slippery and traumatic in cold weather.
Has the big operational term from 15 to 20 years.	In the case of improper installation, the quality of the material is significantly reduced and grass begins to grow between the seams.
Differs easy installation. In the event of damage to a single module, it can be easily replaced.

Recommendations for selection

Basic tips:

When selecting products, it is important to pay attention to their color, it should be uniform and not have white or dark stripes.
Do not give preference to too bright materials that have a large number of pigments, as they are less durable.
When choosing the color of paving slabs, take into account the decorative features and illumination of the site. Coatings that blend in tone with architectural details or matched to the color of the house will look more harmonious.
In order to protect the tiled floor from damage, it is recommended to use curb framing.

Tile shapes

Tiled material can have a variety of bar shape.

Clover

It can be embossed and represent squares, with corners cut off from a circle or smooth, with a complex structure and variety of shapes, tiles.

Coil

Due to its original outlines, it turns out to achieve lock joints that provide strong adhesion of the modules to each other.

Rhombus

Allows you to decorate the surface with an original three-dimensional pattern in the form of a multi-pointed star or a cube, perfectly complementing the surrounding exterior.

The photo track with paving two-color tiled lining in the form of a diamond.

Brick

With the help of imitation bricks, you can get a flat and regular plane that has a neat appearance.

Wave (zigzag or snake)

It represents elongated elements with curves, resembling a wave or lightning, which can revive the surrounding space and make it much more interesting.

Square

Is the most traditional option of paving slabs. Square models, despite their simplicity, give the surface a special elegance.

By angle

It has a unique appearance and quite interesting performance.

Mosaic

Due to the small size, with the help of mosaic you can create a wide variety of artistic drawings while paving paths.

Hexagon (honeycomb)

This form always looks very stylish and can have almost any layout.

In the photo pavement tile trim diamond shape in the exterior.

Octahedron

Differs a little strict, but at the same time the refined pattern reminding an east cloth. Products in the form of an octahedron can be combined with square-shaped elements or a hexagon in combination with a square.

Round

Thanks to the rounded edges, it looks very aesthetically pleasing and original. Round tiling is particularly in harmony with garden lawns.

Chamomile

It has a beautiful, bizarre configuration that allows you to realize various creative ideas and achieve unique compositions.

Scales

It creates an unobtrusive, but at the same time, a spectacular design, but at the expense of various colors, provides an opportunity to lay out the original patterns.

In the photo there is a landscape of a private house with a path decorated with gray paving slabs in the form of scales.

Maple

It has smooth lines, perfectly repeating the outlines of a maple leaf. When using the effect of combining shades, you can achieve a very attractive decor, which will be associated with autumn leaf fall.

Lizard

It has a unique appearance and a rather complex shape, which allows stacking tiled modules with virtually no gaps.

Trapezium

Provides the ability to create truly interesting combinations. Trapezoidal elements can line up in the form of parallel lines, triangles or hexagons. When using modules of different colors, it turns out to achieve an unlimited number of patterns.

Tile textures

There are also several textural options.

A cloud

The surface of this product is characterized by a winding pattern, an unusual volumetric texture, which gives the lining a roughness and a matte effect.

Grid

It has a clear ribbed structure that provides anti-slip properties. Tile-grid is often used in the design of sidewalks, stairs, pools, ornamental ponds or fountains.

Boards

Thanks to the natural wood texture, such a finish will give the exterior a special environmental friendliness and is perfect for decorating paths, steps or flower beds.

Under the tree

This paving slab with imitation of the texture of a natural material, thanks to special methods of molding and coloring, repeats the cut down of a tree with all its irregularities and grooves with accuracy.

Under the stone

Luxury marbled facing gives the design a special charm and sophistication, models with imitation sea pebbles, look no less original, have the correct geometric shapes and non-slip rough surface.

Checkers

Undoubtedly decorate and revive the surrounding exterior. This paving stone may also have a multi-colored version of the paving.

Carpet

It is incredibly elegant and at the same time durable coating providing comfortable operation, steady movement and non-slip surface.

Colors of paving slabs

With the help of the correctly chosen color of the product, it turns out not only to transform the tracks and the landscape, but also to emphasize the design of the buildings on the site. Colored pavement tiles can be made in gray, black, yellow, red, white, beige, green, brown colors, have a two-color or three-color design.

White coatings look very impressive and due to their brightness they are easily visible in the dark. Often enough for finishing choose materials of a pleasant dark orange, brown, brick or cherry shade which are the most practical in operation.

On the photo is a path leading to a private house with pavement tiled lining brown color.

The universal solution is facing gray shade, which gives the design of elegance, in harmony with a variety of colors and favorably emphasizes architectural advantages.

In the photo pavement black rectangular tiles in the design of the track near the house.

Street tile design examples

A rather unusual design move is fluorescent, transparent or frosted glass luminous pavement tiles, with built-in LEDs, this solution allows you to achieve a truly fabulous and unique atmosphere. Also no less interesting in the exterior looks facing with the decor in the form of small colored inserts.

Tiled lining "Gothic", differs by a special ornament, in the form of zigzag lines located between parallel strips and has an individual style underlined. Finishing "Gzhel" allows you to assemble the pavement from the figured elements of different size and shape and thus achieve extraordinary coverage.

Variants of patterns and patterns of paving slabs

Paths paved with tiled finishes with various patterns and ornaments will undoubtedly give the surrounding space a special fabulous atmosphere.

On the photo is the landscape of the courtyard of a private house with a pattern of pavement tile finish.

Due to a variety of geometric shapes in the form of large squares, rhombuses, rectangles, in the form of a circle or semicircle, it turns out to set the pavement design of dynamism or, conversely, soften it.

The photo shows a path in front of the house, decorated with paving street tiles in the form of ornaments.

Layout of paving slabs

There are many options for styling, with which you can create a harmonious and aesthetic composition.

Schemes for rectangular tiles

Main types:

In staggered order. It involves the use of two elements of different colors, most often black and white. The chess layout, despite its simplicity, allows for very effective surface decoration.
Herringbone. In this case, the modules are arranged at an angle of 45 ° or 90 ° to each other, creating a fairly dynamic pattern.
In the run. It is a standard design look, resembling brickwork.
Network. It has the form of weaving, formed by the location of rectangular elements perpendicular to each other.
Zigzag. It is a rather complex scheme, which involves laying a zigzag pattern.
Arbitrary order. Does not have a specific placement. Especially advantageous chaotic order looks with the use of multi-colored products.

In the photo pavement multicolored tiles of rectangular shape with the layout of the run.

For curly tiles

These products are distinguished by a rather complicated layout, in which the color gamut and the direction of a separate module must be taken into account. Unusually lined figure elements in the form of stars, leaves, flowers and other figures will give the landscape a special highlight.

Photos of the use of paving slabs

Popular use cases.

Photo tracks in the country

Such design will be an excellent substitute for simple concrete walkways in the country. Due to the original compositions, the variety of shapes and colors of paving trim, it turns out to complement any landscape. For small garden plots, ornate paths with smooth lines will be an excellent solution, and for large areas, clear, straight paths.

The photo track on the dacha, decorated paving slabs of different colors.

Photos in the courtyard of a private house

The path paved with paving slabs contributes not only to the connection of various objects among themselves, but also to the allocation of certain buildings. This cover can be located around the house, in front of the house, in the gazebo, on the open veranda or to frame the flowerbeds, thereby allowing to keep the surrounding area clean.

On the site of a private house with the help of street cladding, it is also supposed to design parking for a car. To do this, use reinforced concrete products that can withstand the load from the movement of the machine.

Porch from paving slabs

The porch can be decorated with a single-colored or multi-colored tiled material that has almost any shape, or even apply a mosaic for decoration that allows you to create a truly elegant design.