b'Like many Kiwi homeowners, chances are youve been neglecting your backyard over the cold, wet winter months, and its now looking a little worse for wear. However, with spring here and the summer barbecue season just around the corner, its the perfect time to carry out an outdoor makeover.Agreatwaytoenhanceatired-lookinggardenandIfyouliketheideaofincorporatingpaversandhard increaseyouruseableoutdoorareaisthroughthelandscaping into your outdoor scheme, but arent quite addition of paving and other hard landscaping elements.sure how to go about it, the following pages might just Karen McCalman, marketing manager at Stevenson, saysprovide the inspiration you need. We asked landscape paving is an easy, cost-effective way to add an extra roomdesigners Elle Anderson from A Few Birds Consultancy to your house.and Sam Lockie from Landscape Transformations to add The Stevenson paving range comes in a wide range ofsome life andair to this uninspiring backyard. formats and colours, all designed to complement eachFor further inspiring ideas on using hard landscaping, other, so you can create virtually any look you like, shecheck out the newly redesigned Stevenson website at says. They come in modular units, which lets you mixwww.stevenson.co.nz.and match different sizes to create patterns and borders. Andbecausetheyreallthesamethickness,they t together perfectly.Karen recommends using large-format tiles to make a small area look bigger, and says that using the same tile indoors and outsuch as Stevenson Veneto or Alfresco paverscreates great indoor/outdoorow.| 97'