Love these! I really want to do something similar in my backyard. Maybe not completely grass-free, but close. This was the plan before a pipe burst and caused us to have to demo the bathroom instead.

I love using gravel. It is so easy to do and maintain. We just made a fire pit area out of gravel and used a brick like stone for the edging. We love how it turned out and are planning on lining our garden area with the same brick, and doing a path and patio in the back with the gravel and brick.

Beautiful beautiful!

Hmm. A big area of my front walk is spalling, and I've thought of doing something different with it. But what would look good with a '50s brick ranch, and would be shovel-able?

@chillrepute, that's a GREAT question...permeable and shovel-able? I'll do some searching and will follow-up with another post about this next week. When I put together these images, I was really thinking about outdoor patio and garden living, but if you're in the market for a new driveway and live where it snows, this is absolutely a conundrum.

Landis

love this idea. I've been pondering how to create a paver patio extension to the concrete pad in my backyard. I may borrow the large white paver look and fill the crevices with a variety of creeping thyme. :)