10 Best Driveway Ideas

Driveways have a considerable impact on the appearance of your house. You should choose the driveway designs and material very carefully so that it is under your budget, serves its purpose and makes your house look beautiful.

Concrete Driveway with thin Gravel seams

Concrete driveway ways are very simplistic, not very decorative but very low maintenance. Concrete driveways are very low cost.

Crushed shell

A driveway made of crushed oyster shell, scallop shell and clams can be striking and is generally low cost.

Basalt Paver Tiles

Basalt rock is hard, durable and beautiful. Basalt paver tiles can be buried in the ground to make a green and black driveway. The gaps between the tiles are covered by the grass to give the black tiles a green border.

Gravel Driveway with red brick border

Gravel driveways are easy to install and affordable too. They are not the best options for areas with high snowfall in winters. Gravel driveways are high maintenance but very aesthetically pleasing. The gravel driveways can be made in vibrant colors.

Red Brick driveway

Red Brick driveways can be expensive to install but are very pleasing to the eye not very high maintenance. It greatly increases the resale value of the house.

Multi-colored Stones

Studding your driveway by multi-colored stones can be very creative and aesthetic but a bit expensive. A stone driveway gives good drainage. But make sure the stones are not well rounded as they will easily be forced off their spot in the driveway.

Recycled

Recycled materials can be used to create exceptional driveway surfaces. For instance left over bricks, stones, and gravel can be arranged together to create an out of the box driveway that’s extremely low cost.

Compressed earth

For your cottage at a country side a compressed earth driveway with grass between the tracks is the best suited driveway. It gives an expressive look to the cottage and is very low cost.

Black Asphalt

Black asphalt is best suited for snowy areas and can melt the driveway snow relatively quickly. This needs regular sealing.

Sand mixed Concrete studded with all of the above!

It can be extremely creative to stud the sand mixed concrete with all the different stones, bricks and tiles to make funny patterns. The best part of sand mixed concrete is speedy drainage.