Well who knew this was going to happen? Typically all ideas come from me after I think and think them through. Then when I’m ready with a plan, I spring them on Mr. Seasoned Home. Well, this time it was the opposite! This idea was thought up by Mr. SH and I just went with it (like he always does) and boy am I happy I did! While our small walkway/path to our stairs has always bugged Mr. SH., I never really thought much about it. He hated that it was wavy, uneven and and messy looking. Once he pointed it out, I agreed it was time. We knew we wanted to keep this project inexpensive, so we went to Home Depot to see what they had for walkway materials. We ended up choosing pavers based on a Pinterest image I found with some bricks in a herringbone pattern, and then we set out to execute it!

Here are the materials you will need to complete this project (our walkway is 36” x 72”): shovel, tamper, work gloves, paver base panels, paver edging, edging spikes, pavers , diamond tip, concrete circular saw blade and sand. Here is the process (see pictures below for steps):

Mr. SH dug up the old 12” x 12” slate pavers we had down.
He leveled out the dirt by moving it around and patting it down with a tamper.
He laid out the Paver base panels and made a border with the paver edging and then hammered the spikes in to hold it in place.
He laid two pieces of wood (1/4 inch each) on either side and put sand on top of the wood and paver panels. He then dragged a third piece of wood across to level the sand out to be around 1/4 inch thick.
He laid out the border of pavers all the way around.
To do the herringbone pattern, he started with one 45 degree, full size paver and placed it as far to the corner as he could.
Then he laid out the herringbone pattern using full size pieces, leaving only pieces he had to cut left.
Then he used a sharpie to mark where they needed to be cut and used the circular saw blade to cut them.
Once they were all laid, he placed one and a half bags of paver sand on top and broomed it so that the pavers would stay in place and not move.
Then he filled the surrounding area with strips of sod.