WWYD? Reg patio - Painting slabs or chippings?

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Our paved patio, to be fair isn't too bad looking, its just the colour of the slabs that irks me, they are the 'sand' colour or beige. Had them laid around 6 years ago. They go with nothing in the garden. I've tried an outdoor rug and if anything it just enhances them!

I'm all for painting them, but DH is dead against it, saying with the weather that the paint doesn't last and it looks awful after a while.

He suggested we just cover with stone chippings. We do have a smaller seating area already with stone chippings that I do like. This is a slightly bigger area though and will house a small table and chairs. I reckon it will take around 3 ton bags of stone chippings.

We can't afford to deck it or to re-pave. Ideas or opinions please!

Why don't you stencil them? If your husband hates them, you can put down stones.

Rather than paint them, dye or stain them instead. You won’t be able to change your mind if you hate it, but it won’t peel off

I think I’m swaying towards stone chippings, however, looking online at some reviews some cotswold stone can look yellow-ish, which kind of defeats the meaning, I’m trying to cover slabs that look yellow-ish! The cotswold stone we have in the other small seated area were from Asda in the small bags & they are the lovely pale buff (almost off white) colour. I don’t fancy buying 50+ bags of those though!