10 Beautiful DIY Paver Projects That Will Instantly Elevate Your Yard

You can save money and put your own creative mark on your yard when you use pavers to DIY hardscape projects in your landscape. Fortunately, many of these projects require nothing more than time, effort, muscle, sweat, and the right materials. For this reason, you can forget the expensive power tools and get acquainted with a simple shovel, rake, and tamper to produce gorgeous results. These can elevate your home's curb appeal as well as your family's enjoyment of their outdoor living area.

Pavers come in a plethora of sizes, shapes, colors, and materials to suit a variety of hardscaping projects. From patios and walkways, to borders for planting beds, pavers work wonders to create outdoor spaces that are durable and long-lasting as well as visually interesting. We've curated a collection of paver projects that represent an assortment of building methods along with diverse ideas for combining hardscape materials. As an added benefit, we've included tips for each to steer you toward success in your own paver project.

Starting from scratch with a blank backyard full of weeds, these TikTok DIYers built a gorgeous paver patio for relaxation and entertaining. From digging and leveling to laying the weed-deterrent landscape fabric and sand base, they followed the right steps to create a hardscape surface that will last for years. DIY tip: save time and effort by using paver base panels like the Brock polypropylene paver base panels from The Home Depot. 

When you're designing a patio, keep in mind that the pavers don't need to butt up against each other. For a different look, you can leave spaces between the pavers and fill them in with tiny pebbles or gravel. Mixing pavers with pebbles creates visual interest and a sense of open space in a backyard patio. You can also install landscape edging like the EasyFlex edging from Lowe's to keep the pebbles inside your patio area. 

A patio laid with synthetic turf sections between the pavers creates an upscale vibe in your outdoor space. To simplify planning, use a pre-cut synthetic turf grid from PaverTurf. The grid shows where to lay the pavers as well as where the synthetic turf fits securely between them. When you order online, you get everything you need for the project, including pavers, printed grid templates, pre-cut synthetic turf, adhesive strips, turf nails, and turf infill sand. The materials are designed to work together, resulting in a refined and sophisticated outdoor entertaining area. 

If you want a casual and natural vibe for your paver walkway, you might fill in the spaces between the pavers with shredded-wood gardening mulch. The problem with this approach is that the mulch gets scattered across the surfaces of the pavers, rather than staying in place. However, you can keep the mulch in place with an application of Dominator Mulch Anchor mulch glue from The Home Depot. It's formulate to be rain-proof to keep your pathway neat and tidy for two years.

Most homes are built with a basic concrete walkway leading up to the front door. But these utilitarian strips of concrete look pretty boring. To increase your home's curb appeal, you can transform your boring walkway with pavers. Measure the area and select pavers to fit, laying them in a pattern of your choice. Then, adhere the pavers to the existing concrete with an exterior product for cement and stone like Loctite PL500 landscape exterior construction adhesive from Lowe's. 

Building a paver walkway is not complicated, but to do it right, you'll need to follow several steps. This DIYer clearly demonstrates the steps to excavate, level, and lay a substantial base for a paver-and-gravel walkway that should last for many years. After excavating and leveling, you can add a layer of weed control landscape fabric, like this one from Home Depot, to prevent plants from popping up between your pavers. On top of the weed control fabric, apply paver base and paver sand before placing the pavers and gravel on top.

Walking out to a thriving vegetable garden to pick fresh produce for dinner is one of the great joys of summer. But a walk in the garden could result in mud and debris being tracked onto your kitchen floor. To fix the problem, install paver walkways between the various plots or raised beds in your garden. To make the paths low-maintenance, spread gravel between the pavers to control weeds and allow for drainage.

Who says that all the pavers in your patio must be exactly alike? DIY tip: select a product like the Corso Italia porcelain pavers from The Home Depot to choose from an array of contrasting colors. Measure your space and decide on a pattern, then place the pavers in your patio accordingly. You might opt for a checkerboard effect, or you could outline the borders of the space with a contrasting color. Either way, the use of different-colored pavers can enliven the aesthetic of your outdoor living area. 

You can instantly improve the look of your planting beds by installing borders made from brick pavers laid flush with the level of your lawn. First, dig a trench and lay the pavers flat and perpendicular to the planting bed. This creates a secure surface for the wheels of your lawnmower to roll smoothly across the space, giving your lawn a neat cut, right up to the edge of the beds. Plus, the rectangular, brick-like pavers from Lowe's are available in four colors so you can create a look to complement your home's exterior.

Plastic edging is a simple and inexpensive way to divide your planting bed from your lawn. But over the years, it bulges up from the soil and starts to look messy and unkempt. To improve your home's curb appeal, you can rip out the old plastic garden edging and replace it with a border of gorgeous tumbled pavers. For example, the Pavestone tumbled pavers from Lowe's are made from concrete, but they have the old-world look of natural stone.