Paver Driveway Apron

As most of you know, last season we removed our deck and patio and replaced it with a new patio.

This is the before picture, and it was the patio you see in this picture that was removed.

We used some of the old patio pavers to make this pathway to the new patio.  We still had a few palettes of pavers left.  I knew that we had to come up with something to do with them.  How about an apron at the foot of the driveway?  It's tough to have an entire paver driveway in the Northeast with the snow and all...but an apron is a nice effect.  We ran out of good weather after the patio was done, so this project had to wait until now.

So, last Thursday our contractor's trucks arrived, ready to begin.

Just in a nick of time.  You can see that the foot of our driveway took a real beating this winter.

Before you start any project like this, make sure you or your contractor calls your town to have them come out and mark with a flag your gas, electric and cable lines.

First they cut out the driveway portion they would be replacing with pavers.

Next they added stone and then sand.  Then the pavers are laid and retained in with belgium block at the street.

Here is the finished product.  It was the perfect use of what would otherwise have been thrown away.  I love repurposing.

As an added bonus, while one crew worked on my driveway, another crew was working on pruning my landscaping and adding new mulch.

Now if it would just warm up and stay warm for more than just a day.

Maybe then we could get the rest of the grass to grow back (after the construction from the fall).

What kind of outdoor projects have you been up to?

-Judy