Which room is the sunroom? How will the patio be accessed? What are your plans to connect the deck and the patio. We need a lot more information.

The sunroom is the room that sticks out to the left

ill add a pic of the full back. the deck will come off the sliders to the sunroom, then steps off the side down to the patio

Ill add a second pic of chatgtp rendering of the patio…its obvously not perfect but a general idea

I agree with @mojavemaria ^ stamped concrete doesn't age well in cold climates especially. It often pits. Although I do love the look.

I had a terracotta stamped patio, looked great for a few years, harsh winters etch it.

I would choose a gray/brown tone, like dirt. Don't draw too much attention to it.

Your furniture should be the interest, the patio just texture.

We bought a home with stamped concrete. It’s wearing down in places and the experts in our area told us that it should be power washed and sealed annually. 1500.00 I’d never choose to do stamped concrete for that reason.

I would paint the foundation to match patio stone or stamped concrete. It will get hidden by furniture and planters. With cool toned siding stick with cool toned patio.

@Lyn Nielson …. stamped concrete doesn’t age well in the mildest of climates either. Our neighbor’s looked terrible after a few years & we live in coastal So Cal, basically year around spring weather.

I actually prefer deck to patios so if a desck is the plan why not just do all deck instaed of making choices for both . I like exterior deck to look kind of like an extnsion of the interior floor to add to the in/ out space I usually lay out deck like a home interior kitchen , DR and LR spaces and IMO all one floor makes the whole thing more uesable . If the deck and patio are a must to you then figue out what wood color for the deck now and do the stamped concrete to go with thta .As for the foundation I would do it the same as the patio color and if it was deck you would not have to do anything to it.

I would never tell someone to not do what they want in their garden, landscaping is a low stakes game so do what makes you happy. But since you asked for opinions here is mine.

Two things that have never been said by anyone, ”Are you kidding? That’s a comb over? I never would have guessed, it looks so natural!” and ”Are you kidding? That’s stamped concrete? I never would have guessed, it looks like real stone!”

Im not interested in a full deck because we don't want to block the living room windows with furniture etc, the patio will sit on the ground which will leave less view obstruction

Im surprised to hear negative feedback regarding stamped concrete, we've contemplated what to for close to 3 years (since we built) and everyone Ive talked to with pavers dont like the fact that they shift, have weeds coming up in between etc. whereas everyone with stamepd concrete (has had for several years) is happy with their choice

and I have zero intentions of trying to play off stamped concrete as natural stone

If you use polymeric sand you don't get weeds. If you hire someone who does the proper prep work, you won't have pavers shifting.

We have a blue house. We used English walnut timbertech decking and county materials cream pavers with a black border. We live in Minnesota and have had no problems with either the deck or the pavers. You used gray stone for your fireplace though so you might want to use a color that will tie into that.

Our neighbors did stamped concrete a year ago and are already having issues. Concrete will crack.

Do you have a pic? And good to know about the prep, I figured thats part of it, its just werid how ive gotten complete opposite opinions on the 2 🤷‍♀️

I‘ve had pavers in 3 different homes, none has ever ” shifted” ( granted I live in a very mild climate ) nor have I had weeds popping through even though everything grows like crazy where I live. Guess it’s just a matter of proper install.

Pavers don't require a permit, like the cement and it won't crack like stamped concrete does. Pavers done well should not shift, when done they are done. No sealing/staining. Polymer sand is not a once and done application but it's not near as cumbersome as sealing. Decking is a huge NO. The maintenance will ruin the entire season. I would paint the foundation to match the siding regardless.

Why not mimic the stone that you have wrapped on the chimney.

I had a fairly large deck that I had ripped out and replaced it with a large paver patio. It has four areas - (i) a large covered area with a cedar plank ceiling + nice heaters on the ceiling + sound system, (ii) an open area in the middle, (iii) an area for grill/small outdoor kitchen, and (iv) a fire pit with sit wall that surrounds about half of fire pit area.

Our landscape architect had the concrete pad that was under the deck removed (it was added by the builder when the house was built) + had a crew spend quite a bit of time on the prep work prior to installing the pavers (they also added two retaining walls on one side due to how my backyard slopes down to the left side + removed three retaining walls in the front yard and replaced them with new retaining walls to match the back patio).

If my deck had been built correctly + was only over by the left side (and turned into a covered deck) - I would have most likely kept the deck and just added a paver patio for the rest of the area we wanted to include. Someone just posted a question a few days ago re: adding a patio to the side of their current deck. Many people said that they should either extend their existing deck or rip out the deck and just do a patio. I posted a lot of photos showing how people have done deck/patio combos in their backyards - they looked nice.

You need to make sure the the polymeric sand is installed correctly. That's the only issue that we had (some of it remained too soft). Last summer, our contractor removed some of the sand (it seemed like a lot!) and redid the polymeric sand. There also was one paver along the outer edging course of pavers that had "sunk" a little in one corner. They fixed that in just a few minutes.

My neighbors did a new stamped patio a couple years ago (when we did our paver patio) - and they just told us about the issues that they've had. I don't know if it's because of how it was constructed OR if they failed to do some required maintenance - but they said that they will keep it for a few more years and then replace it with pavers.

We had our patio sealed after it was installed - we will probably have it power washed and sealed again in the fall.

Would love to see the front of your home - looks like it's a very nice house!

Also - paint your foundation to match your siding.

Here are pics of our deck and patio.

If I were to do it over, I would add drainage to the deck (didn't know when we built our deck that we should've done it then). Unfortunately the treated lumber ended up staining our pavers a little (probably would've stained anything), but the light color we chose just doesn't hide it. Otherwise we're very happy with both. Our neighbors a few houses down used the larger size of the pavers we used and their patio looks great.

Given your fireplace stone I might go with something like this.

https://hub.countymaterials.com/projects/landscape/trume-way-residence

Thank you, those colors look great with the blue and thanks for the suggestion!

This is a very timely discussion. We're in the middle of tearing out our patio pavers and I'm trying to decide between stamped or brushed concrete. I don't mind cleaning it each spring along with the rest of the outdoor stuff. But never again on the pavers unless it's some kind of groutless design. We had to replace sand every 2 years because it would just disappear, attract ants and turned black in places, sometimes moss, and we're in full sun! Another alternative we considered is crushed stone with large tiles.

"replace the sand" i.e. sweep polymeric or granite dust across pavers. Everyone has their threshold for maintenance.

I'm just curious about your siding color. We're getting new siding in a few weeks that looks exactly like that and I'm hoping I'm still loving the color after it's up. (Also, we recently did our back patio in pavers).

@bearbev If you use polymeric sand you don't get these issues. However, our last house we had a paver patio with play sand between. We did get weeds/moss, but it's easy enough to pressure wash it once a year to clean it off and refill it with sand. Doesn't seem too onerous.

The negative with polymeric sand is you could possibly remove it when you pressure wash, and it's not as easy to replace. But arcy is right - everyone has their threshold for maintenance.

@MrsM not sure if the OP has the same, but we have James Hardi Deep Ocean.

@MrsM the siding is royal brand siding in the color marine blue