Patios are one of the best parts of summer. Patios are places for people to relax and enjoy the weather and patio designs should be attentive to both comfort and style! Having a great place for family braais, small cookouts with close friends and larger outdoor parties will make your home a place you will enjoying spending more time.

Homes designed for peaceful living often blur the boundaries between indoors and out. Rooms extend into gardens, and often in South Africa we see indoor living rooms with large sliding or folding doors completely opening up to allow free movement from these rooms to the outdoor patio/entertaining areas. When you connect with nature, you are also connecting with your spiritual self.

The flooring of a patio is usually stone or cement, which makes it easier to clean and gives the patio a stable base. To create a sense of continuity with the outdoor areas, and to create a sense of bringing the 'outdoors in', use a flooring that will match or complement the flooring inside your house to which the patio is attached.

Africotta tiles are ideal for this application as they are suitable for both indoor & outdoor areas. Your patio may also be adjoined to your pool, where you can continue with a complementing paving surround, to create your pool area as an extension of your patio and home.