It is all relative to the entire property, the house and the yard. Is this a part of the pedestrian circulation or a seating area? Are there utilities adjacent, is it in the front yard and viewed by neighbors, or part of your private space. Is it viewed from the dining/living rooms or just from the bedrooms. Will it be used by tricycles or just feet (no golf shoes please). In my experience, (don't you hate it when someone starts off a sentence in which he offers advice with that phrase), the mondo grass is too large for any pedestrian pavement. There are a large variety of more prostrate plants you can walk on at your garden center, I expect. Some can be walked on daily, and others less often. Some are evergreen, some have attractive flowers, some are into more gray or smoky colors than just green. You can mix them up, just as you do with groundcovers in your plant beds. Enjoy!

Inexpensive, speak to Boral timbers who have parquetry line in a variety of timber species at varying price brackets. As for suggestions of vinyl or tile - do it properly and honestly or don't do it. I don't understand the obsession with "looks like wood" when you can use the real thing which gives all the warmth and tactility not available with the alternatives, much like buying forgery furniture from the numerous retailers - save up, buy the real thing, and appreciate it for a lifetime.

looks amazing. I might ask my tiler to change our white long subways from vertical to herringbone now I have seen this. Do your tiles have a bit of movement in them as mine do so I was worried about laying them in a herringbone design.

I saw these today and they seem to match well with our wall bricks and roof colour and well priced too. Now I think I'll consider retaining wall options and compare to brick. https://tilemarket.com.au/product/trevi-grey-external-300x300/ Edit: definitely going with brick I think