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Blocks Color: You DO not have to stick to either square, rectangular or hexagonal paving stones—you can mix them for a more creative finish. You can mix hexagonal blocks color with square or rectangular slabs of different color. With hexagonal blocks color, leave some empty units from the overall area to be covered, so allowing you to make any shape you want.
To create an attractive feature within the patio, omit a number of blocks color from an area of paving and fill the gap with decorative aggregates. Many types and colors of small-scale stones are available, often pre-bagged.
Fapillon's influence (about 1688). Jean Papillon, a Frenchman, was the first to make paper designs in repeating patterns that would match on all sides when the separate sheets were pasted together. Papillon produced his patterns by carving them in large wood-blocks color, covering the blocks color with the necessary pigments, and then pressing them against sheets of paper. In this way he could make a much greater quantity of patterned paper than by painting each sheet separately. By using separate blocks color for each color, he could print any pattern in any number of colors desired. Papillon is the real inventor of wallpaper as it is known today.
You COULD define and soften a patio of square blocks color with borders of brickwork or make circular patterns with cobblestones and bricks for a less formal approach. Intersperse areas of gravel within areas of paving slabs and then grow a selection of rock plants in the gravel.
BY MIXING different-colored paving you can create random or formal patterns. Some ideas include: highlighting diagonal lines across a patio with red slabs contrasted with the overall green or buff ones; picking out alternate rows of blocks color in another color; and working from the perimeter of the patio forming squares within squares, finishing with a solid black of blocks color at the center. |
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