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Article: Many find paving stones on the path to their front door.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 7, 2003
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Byline: Stacy Downs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Bricks and stones transform front porches and pathways. And they also can change the entire street-side presence of a home.
"Our friends didn't even recognize our house," says Jamee Friedmann, whose Prairie Village, Kan., porch and walkway were covered in concrete paving stones this year. "It felt like miles and miles of cement before."
Before the work was done at their home, Friedmann and her husband, Peter, thought their 1953 ranch house looked boxy and boring. They took walks in different neighborhoods to study walkways that made homes look inviting.
Bob Long, sales manager for the Acme Brick ...