How Do You Design Intricate Brick Patterns?
Paving with stone and clay bricks allows much room for creativity in designing intricate or complicated patterns. If you are paving a large driveway or backyard patio, bricks can add a distinctive, sophisticated touch to an otherwise plain surface. You can even create patterns to compliment your home exterior or landscaping. The more complicated the pattern, the more difficult it is to find the right arrangement of bricks–and the easier it is to make mistakes when you lay the bricks! To help you avoid the pitfalls of paving with bricks, here are some suggestions for laying a beautiful patterned surface. First, sketch several patterns for brick designs using graph paper or make a grid with a computer graphics program. Keep in mind the dimensions of the patio and the size of the bricks. Typical clay bricks ar 2×1, i.e. they are slightly more than twice as long as they are wide, so you can color two squares for each brick, and one square for each half brick. Experiment with bricks of oth
