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Explore our carefully selected paving layouts, where artistry merges with innovation. Whether you’re redesigning your home’s landscape or upgrading outdoor commercial areas, choosing the perfect pattern can enhance both beauty and usability.
In this guide, discover a range of classic and modern patterns crafted to spark your creativity and guide your paving project. Each pattern showcases enduring sophistication while highlighting the significance of accurate technique and attention to detail during installation.
Our Patio Packs have versatile assortments of paving tiles in varying sizes, enabling limitless creativity. Perfecting your patio with these packs requires thoughtful planning to ensure every tile fits seamlessly, transforming your outdoor space into a masterpiece.
Includes 600×600, 600×900, 600×290, 290×290 (mm)
Patio Pack sizes (mm):
Embracing time-tested elegance, traditional paving patterns offer versatility suitable for various sizes of paving slabs. These simple but effective layouts not only exude timeless charm but also provide structural integrity, making them ideal choices for pathways, patios, and driveways.
Embrace traditional with our selection of patterns that can be used by all sizes:
Discover the appeal of brick-bond patterns, where modern sophistication meets rustic charm. Characterised by its alternating brick-like arrangement, these layouts add depth and character to any setting, making them ideal for pathways, borders, walls, patio areas, and more.
Best for 600×600, 600×900, 600×1200, 400×800, 450×900 (mm)
Unleash your creativity with staggered paving patterns, where asymmetry meets aesthetic appeal. Designed to maximise visual impact and showcase the beauty of longer tiles, staggered patterns offer a dynamic and modern approach to paving design. By offsetting each row of tiles, these patterns create a sense of movement and depth, drawing the eye along the surface and infusing the space with a contemporary flair. These versatile layouts allow for endless customisation, enabling you to create unique visual textures and focal points that captivate the eye and invite exploration.
Best for 300×1200 (mm)
Our Patio Packs have versatile assortments of paving tiles in varying sizes, enabling limitless creativity. This pattern is favored when a natural, rustic, or eclectic look is desired, as it mimics the randomness found in natural stone formations. Perfecting your patio with these packs requires thoughtful planning to ensure every tile fits seamlessly, transforming your outdoor space into a masterpiece.
Includes 600×600, 600×900, 600×290, 290×290 (mm)
Characteristics:
- Visual Interest: The combination of different-sized pavers creates visual interest and texture, adding depth and dimension to the paved surface.
- Natural Aesthetic: Patio packs emulate the organic look of natural stone formations, making them ideal for rustic or naturalistic landscaping designs.
- Versatility: This pattern can be adapted to various design styles, from traditional to contemporary.
- Customisable: Builders and homeowners can customise the layout of patio packs to achieve specific design objectives, such as creating focal points or defining pathways.
- Enhanced Durability: When installed correctly, patio packs offer durability and stability, especially when using high-quality materials and proper installation techniques.
- Seamless Integration: These patterns can seamlessly blend with surrounding landscaping elements such as plants, water features, and outdoor furniture, creating a cohesive outdoor environment.
Traditional paving patterns, are simple yet classic arrangements where bricks or pavers are laid in a straight, linear fashion with each unit directly stacked over the one below it. These simple but effective layouts not only exude timeless charm but also provide structural integrity, making them ideal choices for patios, pathways, driveways, courtyards, and interior flooring.
Embrace traditional with our selection of patterns that can be used by all sizes:
Characteristics:
- Clean and Modern Aesthetic: The traditional pattern offers a clean, contemporary look that complements modern architectural styles.
- Uniformity: The uniform alignment of pavers creates a sense of order and symmetry, contributing to a visually pleasing surface.
- Versatility: This pattern can be used with a wide range of materials including porcelain pavers, and natural stone, allowing for versatility in design options.
- Ease of Installation: Stack bond is relatively easy to install compared to more intricate patterns, making it suitable for DIY projects or those with limited masonry experience.
- Highlighting Material Characteristics: This pattern allows the texture, color, and shape of the paving material to take center stage, showcasing its inherent beauty.
- Linear Effect: The vertical alignment of joints and units creates a sense of elongation, making stack bond paving ideal for visually expanding smaller spaces.
- Requires Attention to Detail: While simple in concept, proper installation of stack bond paving requires careful attention to alignment and joint spacing to ensure a professional finish.
- May Require Reinforcement: Depending on the load-bearing requirements of the paved area, stack bond paving may need additional reinforcement to prevent shifting or settling over time.
Discover the appeal of brick-bond patterns, where modern sophistication meets rustic charm. Characterised by its alternating brick-like arrangement, these layouts add depth and character to any setting, making them ideal for pathways, borders, walls, patio areas, and more.
Best for 600×600, 600×900, 600×1200, 400×800, 450×900 (mm)
Characteristics:
- Classic Appearance: The brick-bond pattern has a timeless and traditional look that adds character and charm to paved surfaces.
- Structural Stability: The staggered arrangement of bricks provides structural stability, making it suitable for load-bearing applications such as driveways and walkways.
- Ease of Installation: This pattern is relatively easy to install, even for novice masons or DIY enthusiasts.
- Expansion and Contraction: The staggered joints allow for some flexibility, accommodating minor shifts and changes due to temperature fluctuations or ground movement.
- Visual Interest: The alternating pattern of bricks creates visual interest and texture, enhancing the aesthetic appeal of the paved area.
- Permeability: Depending on the type of material and joint spacing used, brick-bond paving can allow for some degree of water infiltration, promoting drainage and reducing surface runoff.
- Customisable: While the basic brick-bond pattern follows a simple layout, variations such as headers, or different joint widths can be incorporated to customise the look further.
Unleash your creativity with staggered paving patterns, where asymmetry meets aesthetic appeal. Designed to maximise visual impact and showcase the beauty of longer tiles, staggered patterns offer a dynamic and modern approach to paving design. By offsetting each row of tiles, these patterns create a sense of movement and depth, drawing the eye along the surface and infusing the space with a contemporary flair. The joints between units in the same row are aligned, creating continuous horizontal lines, while the units in the rows above and below are staggered, forming a brickwork-like appearance.
Best for 300×1200 (mm)
Characteristics:
- Structural Integrity: The staggered arrangement of units ensures robust structural stability, making it ideal for supporting loads in driveways, walkways, and walls.
- Visual Appeal: By alternating units, the staggered pattern introduces captivating visual interest and textural depth, enhancing the overall aesthetic of any surface.
- Flexibility: Compatible with diverse materials like porcelain pavers, or natural stone, the staggered pattern offers flexibility in design choices, enabling customisation to suit specific preferences.
- Ease of Installation: With straightforward laying techniques, implementing the staggered pattern is relatively uncomplicated, suitable for both professionals and DIY enthusiasts.
- Adaptability to Environmental Factors: Thanks to its accommodating joints, the staggered pattern easily accommodates minor ground movements and thermal expansion, ensuring longevity and durability.
- Consistent Appearance: Despite its staggered arrangement, the overall look of the staggered pattern remains uniform and orderly, contributing to a cohesive visual presentation.