DIY Outdoor Walkway Ideas

What's your outdoor walkway style? Pavers or gravel? Brick or concrete? Are you looking to line your walkways and path with lights or plants and flowers? Hometalk has everything you need to design and execute the walkways and paths that you desire. Check out our newest project to see what's trending today.

20 Inspirational Ideas for Creating a Beautiful Outdoor Walkway

Customize Your Garden Walkway

Layer up a great gravel path: Gravel can transform your walkway in an instant. Get large stones compacted down on 4 inches of crushed stone and 1 inch of sand.
Add some art to your path: Using cement paint and a template, apply two coats, and leave to dry for 48 hours. To finish, add two coats over a two-day period.
Turn a pallet into a pathway: Break apart a pallet, arrange the slats in a line, and embed in some soil. Press down and line with rocks and plants for a makeshift walkway.
Design a glittering stone mosaic: Transform a block path with a mosaic. Pour cement into the crevasses around each block. Then, insert painted stones and allow to dry.
Revamp your path with paint: Add depth to your walkway with concrete stain. Apply with a roller and allow to dry. Add a second coat to give light-grey concrete a new sheen.

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Top Projects for Outdoor Walkways & Paths

Our top walkway and path projects for you to get ideas for your outdoor space.

Front Walkway Redo

Our slate front walkway was in need of an update. The 2' x 3' slate flagstones had cracked in places and had shifted over the years, allowing weeds to invade. Fortunately, the stones were not mortared in so we were able to do this update on our own and much more quickly than I thought!

Kristen Mitrakis

Garden Mosaics Made From Broken Tiles

332/5000Upgrade your garden by creating mosaics of old broken tiles!Our pool area needed to be fixed and connected to the patio at the house, so I used old, ugly pavers, a couple of cement blocks and some old broken tiles, and with that I created a new staircase and a pair of flower boxes.

Ann-Christin Lövstedt

How We Made Stepping Stone Walkway From Ice Cream Buckets.

We had already purchased molds from Lowe`s that made this pattern. We are using this pattern that will come off the back porch and out to our sitting area with burn pit and adding two hammock chairs. We did not want everything to be matched, so we had to figure what kind of pattern we wanted. My hubby is building A bigger shop, that is why everything is in the yard. In the process of cleaning out the old shed we had A lot of empty ice cream buckets and knew someday we would use them for something.

Shirley

How To Make Mosaic Rock Pavers!

This is a super fun and easy way to create unique pavers for sidewalks and pathways. I'm currently working on a pathway around my house and wanted something heavier and more decorative than the pavers available at the outdoor center, so I decided to make my own!

Bryan's Workshop

Get Perfect Garden Borders—in Just 10 Minutes

You can make your garden borders look perfectly pristine for almost no money, by using things you have around your home! It just takes a few quick steps—watch the 1 minute video below to see how to amp up your garden in a flash.We want to help you DIY, so some of the materials in this post are linked to sellers. Just so you know, Hometalk may collect a small share of sales from the links on this page.BEFORE:

Alicia W

Simple Garden Path

This is a simple wooden garden path that can be made with a few logs, a chain saw, some oil, and some time.

SSLFamilyDad

Stepping Stone Hack

Make a boring walkway into an interesting look of flagstone and slate stones.

Susanne Elisabeth Burdett

Mosaic Walkway

Our front walkway was just recycled concrete pieces and dirt. I decided I wanted a mosaic walkway and with river rocks, broken pots and small tiles I created a fun colorful path to our front steps. This was an easy project although it did take me a couple of weeks to complete due to age and health issues. A local landscaper quoted $2500 to do this job. I did it for under $100.

Eileen Wuenstel Taylor

Changing It Out/saving Water

My wife and I had talked about converting the lawn in the back yard to xeriscaping for several years. Over the last 4 years, California has experienced a terribly deep drought. This plus the California Turf Replacement Rebate Program provided the spark for us to undertake it last fall.

Lee Delaney

Painting a Front Walk

I had a problem with my front walk. it had a big hole that just seemed to get bigger every year, it got so big that we decided that it needed to be fixed. the hole was 3 feet wide and 4 feet long, so we filled in the hole, it took six bags of cement to fill it in. then I noticed that the hole was a different color then the rest of the front walk. so I got this idea to paint the walk. I just didn't know how I was going to do it. I just didn't want to paint it all one color. then I saw a post of someone that painted their front porch with spray paint and a cement mold. I knew with the size of the walk way it would have taken a lot of spray paint. then I got an idea why not paint it with paint made for cement. I chose 5 colors, a light gray for the base color,( it took 2 1/2 gallons) and four for the stone look.( a gallon of each color) it took me 4 days to paint it. I had to let the base paint dry for 48 hours. or it would have been done in two days, everyone that has seen it loves it. and now my neighbor wants to do t to his front walk. I want to thank that person with the mold idea for giving me my idea. I had so much fun. I have enough paint left over that I can do my back porch now.

Peggy Hill

Front Walkway Redo

Kristen Mitrakis

Garden Mosaics Made From Broken Tiles

Ann-Christin Lövstedt

How We Made Stepping Stone Walkway From Ice Cream Buckets.

Shirley

How To Make Mosaic Rock Pavers!

Bryan's Workshop

Get Perfect Garden Borders—in Just 10 Minutes

Alicia W

Simple Garden Path

This is a simple wooden garden path that can be made with a few logs, a chain saw, some oil, and some time.

SSLFamilyDad

Stepping Stone Hack

Make a boring walkway into an interesting look of flagstone and slate stones.

Susanne Elisabeth Burdett

Mosaic Walkway

Eileen Wuenstel Taylor

Changing It Out/saving Water

Lee Delaney

Painting a Front Walk

Peggy Hill

Outdoor Walkway & Path Videos

Peruse our collection of video tutorials on DIY walkways and paths.

Easy Painted Pavestone for Garden Decor

Take a plain pave stone from a big box garden store and turn it into an amazing art piece for your garden with a stencil and a little paint!!! This is so simple and so fun that anyone even with out artistic skills can make fun art for the backyard, even kids!

Erin Reed | Erin Reed Makes

How to DIY a Flagstone Path in Your Garden

This tutorial will give step by step instructions to create a cement and flagstone path in your garden.

Mimzy lombardo

Hometalkers' Favorite DIY Outdoor Walkway & Path Projects

We hereby present you with our best walkway and path projects at Hometalk. Enjoy.

GARDEN PATH From Old Bed Frame or PALLETS!!

Hello everyone!!! Welcome to my life with the Messy Boys! Even though we live on a budget, we always find a cheap way to learn and have fun. If you would like to have some fun with us, please subscribe to our channel and like our videos!!! Thank you!!!We made this from the wooden parts of our old bed frame. But I`m pretty sure you can use pallets, just probably won`t have to cut them in half. Here is the step by step of how to build a garden path from an old bed frame or pallets. The pathway we are building is to a sandbox that we have built for the kids so let's get to work!

Ramilya Tillman

Hard Landscaping With Rocks or Pebbles

I have been collecting rocks my for as long as I can remember. Moving them from house to house was something I had to do myself. After all I could not expect my husband or anyone else to move over a thousand pounds of rocks! Now I've been in this house for 20 years and had been moving the rocks from location to location but I needed to find them a permanent home. I saw the work of Jeffery Bale http://jeffreygardens.blogspot.com/2011/08/bu... and fell in love with the idea.

Kathi

Rock walkway

Is there such a thing as repurposed rock? I took all this rock out from my front yard that was defining my driveway. I just didn't like it and it was hard to weed around them. I really needed something to go from my back door to the doggie gate cause every time it was wet I'd track dirt inside. It was hard work but I really like it now :D

Maggie Cory

Front House & Yard Curb Appeal Makeover

Our poor front was in dire need of a makeover....we finally bit the bullet...

Lian Wright

Painted Flagstones on Concrete, Stepping Stones

I painted flagstones on my concrete sidewalk. Adds so much to the look of the house.

Charlotte

Stepping Stone From Veggie Tray

Check out this super fun project we did! Using only cement and a dollar store veggie tray! We poured a cement floor in our garage and had some left over cement (yay!) so I pulled out this veggie tray made a personalized stepping stone in our garden, here's how!

Shelia

GARDEN PATH From Old Bed Frame or PALLETS!!

Ramilya Tillman

Hard Landscaping With Rocks or Pebbles

Kathi

Rock walkway

Maggie Cory

Front House & Yard Curb Appeal Makeover

Our poor front was in dire need of a makeover....we finally bit the bullet...

Lian Wright

Painted Flagstones on Concrete, Stepping Stones

I painted flagstones on my concrete sidewalk. Adds so much to the look of the house.

Charlotte

Stepping Stone From Veggie Tray

Shelia

Popular Outdoor Walkways & Paths Discussions

What's new on the walkways and paths discussion board? Check it out!

Path from patio to rose garden ?

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I have a large patio and I am considering putting some kind of a path from the patio to a small rose garden with a bench. The path would be rather long. What is the best material and style path to use? Would stepping stones work best? How to lay them if so?

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How do I build a walkway to my pool?

/> Robbie

When we bought this house in April they had just stepping stones in the grass to the pool, but we would like to put down pea rock and Stepping Stones to make it cleaner looking, but we have our septic tank cover and the ground is sloped on one corner and we're looking for suggestions or help on how to clean it up and just make it look nicer.

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Suggestions for inexpensive walkways and patio in sideyard?

/> Gayle

My side yard leading to the back yard is fairly large, so I want to create some walkways and a small patio area. The entire area is about 40' long and 16' wide. While we would also use it to sit in the cool afternoons (not exactly cool in Missisippi, but shady), I also want it to "beckon" visitors to open the gate and come into the backyard. I can't spend a fortune on it, nor can I hire all the help to get it done. The picture shows the sideyard from the edge of the parking pad. I need to start a walkway there. Please give me some good, solid suggestions that I can probably handle myself. Thanks!

Suggestions for inexpensive walkways and patio in sideyard?

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Concrete vs. designed concrete vs. flagstone/pavers for my front walk?

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I am looking for expert advice on what I should do to replace my front walkway. I love the look of flagstone and pavers but I am concerened of the cost involved(contracted) I dont want to do the boring basic concrete so was thinking designed concrete and I am concerned about it holding up in harsh Ohio winters? I need expert advice for this walway and steps. Dont look at the weed invested yard(being replaced) and the spotted house(being painted)

Concrete vs. designed concrete vs. flagstone/pavers for my front walk?

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New Outdoor Walkway & Path Projects

Want to know what's trending in DIY walkways and paths? Look here at new projects.

DIY Cobblestone Path

Everyone use a particular path to walk in our yard. After years of trying to get grass to grow, we had no such luck. Since I couldn't get grass to grow along this path area, I decided to create a cobblestone path.

Jamala W

DIY Front Walk

When we bought the house (Fall 2013) the previous owner had just thrown down some pea gravel before listing the house and called it a front walkway. The walkway lead us from the driveway to the front door so we used it daily. They had added a couple pieces of slate to make walking on it a bit easier ...

Nancy T

Resand a Walkway With Polymeric Sand

All good things must come to an end; nothing lasts forever. Today that sentiment is twofold: we've updated our logo and are replacing the sand in our front walkway!After noticing some weeds starting to take hold in the joints between our pavers and some erosion over the years, it was time for joint replacement with new Polymeric sand.

Birdz of a Feather

Concrete Cobblestone Path

We wanted to find something unique to use for our pathway and patio. We couldn't find anything we really liked. When I came across this concrete form from Lowes I was so excited. Not only does it look great but it was very cost effective. To learn how we did it visit my blog at http://www.tancamjenksfam.blogspot.com/2011/05/concrete-path-creation.html

Camie Jenkins

Easy Update For Concrete Pavers!

Need an easy update for your backyard? Painting concrete pavers will add some pizzaz to your outdoor space! A few supplies are all that’s needed to create this fun project.Hey friends, sometimes updating your outdoor space can be super simple. The painted concrete pavers idea came about when I was revamping our backyard for the One Room Challenge. We had a very big project and I looked for ways to creatively keep the costs down. We have a side entrance to the back yard that has always been an eyesore. Practical? Yes. Unwelcoming and generally ugly? Yes. The big problem? The side yard doesn’t have a sprinkler system so sod isn’t an option, but painting concrete pavers is!

Joy

My Beautiful Blooming August Garden... That Didn't Die.

I truly thought everything I'd plant would die if I went camping. But I was oh so wrong thanks to some friendly neighbours that came to water in our absence. Welcome to my garden and flower filled porch / patio... that I'm happy to say, is far from over!

Donna at Funky Junk Interiors

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Customize Your Garden Walkway

Layer up a great gravel path

Add some art to your path

Turn a pallet into a pathway

Design a glittering stone mosaic

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