St Paul Landscape Design Company Offers Tips on Improving Your Home’s Curb Appeal

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Aug. 27, 2015 - PRLog -- Advanced Irrigation encourages St Paul homeowners to freshen up their yard’s landscape design and make their home more welcoming to guests by adding walkways. Nice walkways add curb appeal, and they also make walking into and around your home easier.

The first thing to consider when deciding to add a walkway is to know where it should go. Walkways should follow your family’s natural path of walking around your home. Landscape design should be beautiful as well as functional. You don’t want to build a nice walkway only for the family to take the shorter route through the grass anyway. So, build the walkway where you will walk. This also will help guests know where to go, and it will keep constant foot traffic from wearing a path in the grass.

If the slope of your walkway is greater than 10 percent, Advanced Irrigation experts suggest adding a curve or some steps. A slope of 10 percent or more is too steep to walk on comfortably. However, if the walkway does not need a curve or steps, you can save money on your landscape design by not including them. Keeping your walkway on as straight a path as possible will save on materials and cost. Remember to still follow the natural path where your family will walk though.

Many options for material are available for your walkways. Decorative concrete and decorative retaining walls are popular choices for landscape design. Both of these options allow you to combine functionality with an aesthetically pleasing look. Some other options are stones of various sizes and bricks.

Fences or shrubs can be used as a border for your walkway, but make sure they are no higher than two feet. Keeping them short alleviates the feeling of crowding as people are on the walkway. It also makes it easier to carry groceries, packages and other items in and out of your home.

Advanced Irrigation encourages you to include plants in your landscape design. Place them in view of your new walkway. It is good to have plants that will offer enjoyment year round. Try to have a plant or two within your new landscaping that grows and blooms during every season. That way, your guests will have something beautiful to look at any time of the year.

Adding a new walkway to your home’s landscape design will increase your home’s curb appeal and functionality. Be sure to consider all the options when deciding to add one to your yard. If you need suggestions, contact Advanced Irrigation.

Advanced Irrigation serves St Paul and the entire Twin Cities metro area. They specialize in landscaping, lawn care, irrigation systems and commercial snow removal. For more information on how to add a walkway to your home’s landscape design, visit the blog at http://www.advancedirrigationmn.com/planning-practical-walkways-for-your-landscape-st-paul/.