Patio Installation

Read through step-by-step tutorials to help you prepare for any installation pertaining to your patio.

How to Install a Natural Stone Patio with Fire Pit

Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada installs a bluestone patio with a reclaimed granite fire pit

ByJenn Nawada, Landscape Contractor

In this how-to video, learn how to lay a beautiful bluestone patio with This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook

Ask This Old House mason Mark McCullough installs a custom metal railing using anchoring cement

Whether you do it yourself or hire someone for the job, here's what has to happen

You don't have to hire a skilled mason to get a flat, uniformly handsome brick patio that stays that way.

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner install a bluestone patio in an urban backyard

A natural-looking broken-stone patio provides a gathering place in an organic landscape.

Rough-hewn slabs of native rock make a patio and stairs that are at home in the landscape

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how to work with this durable material