How to Design a Brick Walkway

Climb up a ladder and photograph your yard from the top. You may also climb onto the roof of your house and photograph your yard from there. You want to get a bird's eye view of your property to aid in designing the layout of your walkway.

Draw the current layout of your property onto a sheet of graph paper using a regular pencil. Draw your property layout to scale, using each block of the graph paper to represent a larger measurement, such as an inch or a foot.

Draw the outline of your home and driveway onto the sheet of graph paper. Sketch in the location of flowerbeds, landscape edging and any trees, plants or shrubbery growing in your yard that you wish to retain when installing your walkway.

Sketch the outline of your intended walkway. Draw the left and right outlines of the walkway into any shape you wish to connect the front door of your home to the curb or driveway, or connect other parts of your landscape. You may make the walkway curvy or straight or include angled bends.

Draw the brick layout pattern inside the walkway outline and decide which pattern you want to use to install the bricks when you build the walkway. You may want to place different sized bricks in the walkway or alternate the direction the bricks in the walkway point, along with may other brick pattern options.

Color in the individual bricks of the walkway pattern to give yourself a better visual of what the brick layout will look like in reality. You may also use this time to decide if you want a specific color pattern or to place the different hues and shades of bricks at random inside the walkway.