Unilock Tricolor Red Herringbone Walkway with Copthorne Basalt Border

This walkway is being built the right way - from the ground up. We started with a properly graded and compacted gravel base, which is honestly the most important part of any paver installation. Skip that step, and you're looking at shifting, settling, and headaches down the road. Do it right, and the walkway holds up for decades.

The field stone here is Unilock's Tricolor Red, and it's a color blend we really like working with. Burnt Clay, Burgundy, and Old Oak - all three mixed on site so the tones distribute naturally across the whole walkway. No clusters of one color, no obvious repeating pattern. That kind of blending takes intention. It doesn't just happen on its own.

We ran the field in a herringbone pattern, which is one of the strongest laying patterns you can use for a walkway. The interlocking angles distribute weight and foot traffic better than a running bond. It also just looks sharp - that diagonal movement draws the eye straight down the path.

For the border, we went with Copthorne in Basalt. Two courses laid sailor-style on each side. The dark charcoal tone against the warm reds in the field creates a really clean contrast - it frames the whole walkway and gives it a finished, intentional look. That border detail is what separates a basic paver job from something that looks custom-built.

This is what hardscape work looks like when you slow down and pay attention to the details. Every stone placed by hand, string lines pulled tight, base prep done properly. The result is a walkway that's built to last and looks great doing it.