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Stairs and Pathways

Stairs and pathways if designed correctly can enhance your experience within your landscape and provide an artistic journey connecting patios and places of interest. Stairs and paths can be installed with many different methods and materials both adding interest and functionality to your landscape. Materials used for these segways between outdoor living spaces can be brick pavers, flagstone, stripstone, stamped concrete, large rock slabs, or a combination. Bands and borders can further add interest to paths and steps.

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A wide pathway is a beautiful and comfortable way to get to your home and landscape. This wet laid flagstone pathway is 10' wide and steps up to a fully covered porch. Mile High Landscaping installed the wood structure above the porch as well as the rest of the entire project. More on this project is available on our Large accent boulders are used to anchor this set of stairs as well as being positioned as seats. Dimension cut flagstone are a great stair tread. Large flagstone stairs and accent boulders make this side yard pathway. What a beautiful combination. A flagstone pathway connects the sets of stairs. The boulders are placed in a way that they can be used as seats as well, creating many opportunities to enjoy the surrounding landscape.
Stucco, brick and flagstone cover this set of cinderblock stairs that will be safe, and beautiful for years to come. Over 70 custom poured steppers were made to tie this project together. The concrete patio, wall cap and steppers were all poured and then hand troweled with sage grey color to accent the red bricks in this North Cherry Hills project. The two rows of steppers seen here are an interesting architectural element. Nothing says rustic more than siloam slab stairs. This particular type of stone has lots of iron deposits that make the interesting coloring in the rock. There are several other types of slab flagstone that can be used for steps as well.
Primary pathways made with flagstone add style and class to any home. In this instance, the pathway helps bring out the craftsman style of this house. Dimensional cut flagstone can be used in straight lines or it can be used in multiple lines, twisting and turning to work well with informal landscape designs. In this case, low growing ground cover was installed between the joints for a more lush effect. One of our designers came up with the square detail in this paver patio. A small detail that makes a big statement.
Flagstone steppers twist their way through this lush side yard. Blue stone is another great material for pathways and patios. Placing plant material close to the pathway helps soften and naturalize the hardscape. A dangerous 5 foot wide concrete staircase with no railing was removed in favor of this double tier paver landing and flagstone steps.
Flagstone can be cut to make a more natural pathway. Plant material helps soften the hardscape and make the journey more enjoyable. This simple built in grill head backs to a café patio integrating the upper patio with the cooking area. The seat walls on the patio double as additional prep area. The grand stone stair set leads to a large flagstone patio. Café patios are a great way to transition from the home to an on grade patio. Many times there is a significant distance from the interior of the home to the grade in the landscape. Most homes have some sort of poured concrete steps that get you down to grade. They work, but they are not very pretty. The café patio is a great solution. Café patios are created by enlarging the landing of the stairs to make a small patio. This patio usually has seat walls to make the landing feel more cozy comfortable and safe. Then a wider, more aesthetic set of stairs bring you down into the main patio. Not only is it beautiful, but it creates an area all unto itself. A great place to stage food or drinks on the way out, or to simply kick off the shoes.
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