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Amazing stone for your garden

Sarah — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:11:26 +0000

Bring a real sense of class and quality to your garden with some of these amazing stones.
Simply Paving has these new products today

Stoneflair, Purestone Sandstone Antique Setts Glendale 100×100 Setts – 750 Per Pack £313.65
Purestone Antique Sandstone Setts add a warm texture and give an olde world cobble appearance to complement our Purestone Antique Sandstone range. Available in Glendale only. Number per square metre includes nominal joint width of 15-20mm. Dimensions are approximated due to natural variation in the product and processing. Thicknesses may vary between 30-45mm.

Bradstone, Carpet Stones Rustic Red Cobble Straight – 30 Per Pack £587.94
Carpet stones are an ingenious soloution for building pathways, driveways or patios without the time and expense of laying individual stones. Cobble Straight 1200 x 400 x 40 cover 14.9m^2^ per pack and each pack has 30 mats. Each individual stone is joined together, making a unique, easy-to-lay flexible mat, making it ideal for intricate designs. With its unique, easy to cut, flexible mat, intricate designs can be quickly acheived simply by cutting and interlocking together.

Stoneflair, Purestone Granite Paving Honey 100 x 100 x 50 – 720 Per Pack £458.30
Whether it's a subtle, natural look or a definite statement to enhance your home, Purestone Natural Granite Setts from Stoneflair in honey will fulfil your aspirations. Offering the timeless appeal and beauty of natural stone, the setts will add character and prestige whilst providing a hard-wearing surface. These setts are ideally suited for driveways and hard standings if laid on a suitable sub base. When laid over smaller areas the elements create the illusion of greater space and offer an air of sheer quality to any landscape or interior when real stone is your chosen option. They also may be used with any type of manufactured paving as border detail, inlay panels, bands and subdivisions within large paved areas.

Stoneflair, Purestone Granite Paving Black 100 x 100 x 50 – 720 Per Pack £458.30
Whether it's a subtle, natural look or a definite statement to enhance your home, Purestone Natural Granite Setts from Stoneflair in black will fulfil your aspirations. Offering the timeless appeal and beauty of natural stone, the setts will add character and prestige whilst providing a hard-wearing surface. These setts are ideally suited for driveways and hard standings if laid on a suitable sub base. When laid over smaller areas the elements create the illusion of greater space and offer an air of sheer quality to any landscape or interior when real stone is your chosen option. They also may be used with any type of manufactured paving as border detail, inlay panels, bands and subdivisions within large paved areas.

Bradstone, Carpet Stones Charcoal Cobble Radius – 15 Per Pack £426.47
Carpet stones are an ingenious soloution for building pathways, driveways or patios without the time and expense of laying individual stones. Cobble Radius 1200 x 600 x 40 cover 11.1m^2^ per pack and each pack has 15 mats. Each individual stone is joined together, making a unique, easy-to-lay flexible mat, making it ideal for intricate designs. With its unique, easy to cut, flexible mat, intricate designs can be quickly acheived simply by cutting and interlocking together.

Bradstone, Natural Sandstone Setts Sunset Buff Mixed Pack – 12 m2 Pack £430.38
Natural Sandstone setts from Bradstone are ideally suited for driveways and hard standings if laid on a suitable sub base.When laid over smaller areas the elements create the illusion of greater space and offer an air of sheer quality to any landscape or interior when real stone is your chosen option. Available in mixed packs of three sizes, suitable for both driveways and patios and now available in four subtly variable shades. Natural Sandstone Setts allows for a random laying patterns and co-ordinates with other Natural Sandstone range of paving to achieve a natural random appearance. PACK CONTENTS: – 146 of 240mm x 160mm x 35-45 – 146 of 160mm x 160mm x35-45 – 73 of 160mm x 120mm x 34-45 Total 365 blocks. Each pack covers 12 m2 when using 10-15mm joint widths.

Bradstone, Natural Sandstone Setts Autumn Green Mixed Pack – 12 m2 Pack £430.38
Natural Sandstone setts from Bradstone are ideally suited for driveways and hard standings if laid on a suitable sub base.When laid over smaller areas the elements create the illusion of greater space and offer an air of sheer quality to any landscape or interior when real stone is your chosen option. Available in mixed packs of three sizes, suitable for both driveways and patios and now available in four subtly variable shades. Natural Sandstone Setts allows for a random laying patterns and co-ordinates with other Natural Sandstone range of paving to achieve a natural random appearance. PACK CONTENTS: – 146 of 240mm x 160mm x 35-45 – 146 of 160mm x 160mm x35-45 – 73 of 160mm x 120mm x 34-45 Total 365 blocks. Each pack covers 12 m2 when using 10-15mm joint widths.

Bradstone old town paving

Sarah — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:08:47 +0000

Bradstone old town paving

Simply Paving – Bradstone, Old Town Paving Grey Green Patio Pack
Bradstone Oldtown paving this is a stylish grey paving stone. It will look bright and cheerful in your garden, in a sundrenched corner, or light up a less sunny area of the garden.

It comes in a range of sizes, featured kits and circles. Making it very flexible for whatever you want in your garden. It is also available with matching edging as well as walling. This is a popular range, due in part to the eco-friendly credentials of Bradstone’s

The inspiration for this stone, comes from old weathered York flagstones. It is a very pleasing stone to look at, and it is also easy to lay. The Old town patio feature kit contains enough stone for 6.4 m². You can lay it in two different random patterns, and it comes with full laying instructions.

Bradstone, Old Riven Paving

Sarah — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:15:56 +0000

Autumn Gold paving

Bradstone, Old Riven Paving comes in several different colours. It is an economical and realistic alternative to proper stone. The colours are Autumn bronze, Autumn Gold, Autumn Cotswold, Autumn Silver and Weathered York.
The last several different options of pack. They all have a circle kick, are squaring off kit and then packs of different sized stones. The circles are in different sizes in the front colours so please check the colour you are interested in to see what size the circle kit is.

The Autumn Gold colour is a very warm colour that would suit many gardens. It would complement a wide variety of planting from greens to plants with yellow and gold leaves. The Autumn Cotswold colour is likened to Cotswold stone, this is also very warm effect although slightly darker than the Autumn Gold.

Which ever colour you choose, this product is a good-looking alternative to natural stone. It is very reasonably priced, and you will find this means you may be able to do more paid in your garden than you thought.

Paving in your garden

Sarah — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:21:54 +0000

Stone paving

There’s so many wonderful ways of using stone within your garden – you’ll find some inspiring ideas here at Simply Paving.
Creating hard landscaping in your garden is a useful and practical way of making it more accessible, as well as making it more interesting.

By adding pathways, paved areas, even walled beds, you add interest and variety to your garden. You can pick from different types of stone, in different colours and styles. You can mix and match within your garden, picking out the stones you like to see.

If you have been planning the paved area in your garden then you will be very impressed with the range of paving stones and designs available from simply paving. There are circular paving kits, which are stunning and available in a variety of size stones as different types. This allows you to create a unique feature within your garden, picking the colours and stones that you like to make the feature very personal to you.

With the proper paved seating area, you can then enjoy your garden all year round, it’s somewhere to place the chimera and chairs, so you should pick the sunniest part of your garden that you would like to sit in.

Shop online at Simply Paving for some stunning paving.
Take care planning where you don’t put your seating area, think back to the summer and where you actually liked sitting, whether you like the shade or the sun. Make the area big enough for everything you want to do. If you want a barbecue area and is sure you have room for this as well. If you just want the seating place the chairs and a table, then bear this in mind when picking the size you want.

You can build flowerbeds with brick walls. By adding variations of height into your garden you will add interest, and you can then use different planting in a raised bed. For instance you can then use trailing plants, which normally would only use the hanging basket.