Patio ideas, please

[Karen]

The advantage of the darker flagstone is it's ability to retain heat far better than cement, which is more important further North, where we (most years anyway) spend much of the winter worrying about snow and ice. Even the melt from the sun on the roof will drip and form ice on a cold surface, but the warmer stone will help it just run off, still liquid, as the sun warms it, too!

[Cataholic]

I would build a small deck, with that composite thar requires no maintanence

[Freedom]

Maggie, wow, right on! Gives me more to think about!

Johanna, a DECK? It's all the same one level. That's why I started with a "patio or whatever."

[Cataholic]

Same level or not, I would build a deck with that composite decking, 4 inches or even 3 inches off ground. Way easier to maintain then pavers, and prolly less expensive, too. From the pics you posted, seems easy enough to do.

[Freedom]

Hmmm . . . I'll have to think on it, trying to picture it in my mind.