Designing with Flagstone is much easier than you would think. You do not even have to hire a landscape artist or a garden specialist to do your designs for you because a few trips to some of the larger garden outlets or centers and a few flips through some of the more popular garden magazines will be enough to provide you with a myriad of ideas for incorporating flagstone into your garden or home design.
Another tip is to visit the many trade and garden shows which come to your neighborhood several times throughout the year, boggling the mind with live and beautiful examples and layouts of how you can achieve the same look right in your own home. Apart from the usual suggestions of using flagstone in your garden for walkways and paths, try and think outside the box. How about using flagstone for flooring itself, from one end of your patio to the other, incorporating it into the building of your fireplaces and mantles, fire pits, outdoor cabanas, benches, trellises, gazebos, planter boxes, storage units, garbage holders, umbrella and table bases, buffet tables or surfaces, columns and capitals, architectural arches and details, flower beds and dividing railings, steps and borders, fountains and water channels. The possibilities are endless. If you do get technical, however, and are unsure as to the structural soundness of your ideas, then it is advisable to consult or hire an architectural specialist or designer who can best put all your fears to rest. It is always better to be safe than sorry.
Another great design idea for flagstone is using it around a pond or water feature in your garden. What about around your pool or jacuzzi? The possibilities are endless and it will be well worth the time and effort to visit places that sell flagstone and try to collect various samples of the types of flagstone that catch your fancy, take them back to your home and make an evening of it getting feedback from your family members and friends as to what color or shape to use, and see what great designs you can come up with for your home or garden. A useful idea would be to put your designs down on paper first, or take advantage of one of the many garden design software that are available on the market and which may allow you to great flexibility in comparing and contrasting the different colors and designs that flagstone has to offer.
If all else fails and you simply cannot decide on what you would like to use, do what so many other garden lovers and enthusiasts do: take your samples back to the garden center and ask the opinion of the helpful and oftentimes experienced staff, as well as that of garden lovers who frequent the centers and are more than happy to share their experience and ideas with you on how to use flagstone in your garden and what designs to adopt or implement when laying out your garden or patio to be enjoyed for many years to come. Enjoy your design!
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