In recent years, more and more homeowners would like to pave the stone walkway to match the green grasses. Do you like? If so, the following tips would useful for you.

Once you've chosen the route for your walkway, you'll need to mark it. But first, determine whether you wish your path to be straight or curved. 

If you choose the straight stone walkways, you should begin by standing at one end of the projected path, holding a ball of string in your hand. Have a partner begin to unravel that ball of string, walking to the other end of the projected path. Decide whether this will be the left or right-hand side of the path. Each of you will then drive a stake in the ground where you're standing, tying your end of the string to the stake.

While for the curved stone walkways use garden hoses instead of string and stakes. Winding a hose in graceful curves as you go, simply meander from one end of the projected path to the other. This hose will mark one side of the curved stone walkway. Take another hose and repeat the process for the other side, matching the curves already established by the first hose. You'll want the width of the stone walkway to be fairly consistent from one end to the other.

When you are through laying rock, apply sand to the remaining gaps and tamp it in as best you can, perhaps using a small piece of wood for your tamping.