Driveway designs

[LittleEsme]

We completed our renovation last September and, since we ran out of cash, there wasn't anything left in the pot for garden, patio and driveway.

We have a plan for the patio, the garden will have to wait but the driveway is an eyesore. It's sloping, Has zero design, and the builder dumped and raked a load is loose chippings on it so that we could at least park the cars.

Who designs driveways? Roughly how much do they cost?!

We are in the same situation. Renovating our home and just got some quotes for our front drive.
It's wide enough for two cars to park and a car length from pavement to front door.
Ours too slopes down towards the house and also slopes to the side.
A brick pave driveway and a tarmac front drive were both £5,000 with a 10 year guarantee and a resin was £11,000 but only a 5 year guarantee.
I'm so sad because I'm sensible with money but prefer the look of resin 😔

@SouthCoastShell you've just described my driveway! It also slopes to the front door.

It's so tricky to design so I definitely need advice.

Agree re resin - pics look amazing. I especially love the slate grey colour resin but don't have that kind of money 😖

I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get someone to design it for us.

Perhaps consider something like this?
www.gridforce.co.uk/applications/driveways/

Gravel on permeable membrane is more environmentally friendly and can look fabulous using a decorative gravel and contrasting brick edge.

Gravel looks great, yes, but the maintenance is a pain in the posterior, unfortunately. We're in a similar boat to the OP, though we have other work to do first. I like the look of both gravel and resin, but gravel is hard work to keep in good order, especially if you have trees and a hedge close to it, and we're thinking of long term, when we physically won't be able to do that sort of thing. I also have a freind in a wheelchair, and gravel is a problem for her. I also realised from that that the wheelie bins might also be hard work on it. Resin would get round all that, but is very expensive, and I hear isn't as durable as those laying it claim it is. Clay won't do, the drive is too sloping. I don't like blocks, they are another maintenance pain in the whatsit, jet washing, weeding, resanding the cracks, etc. ( er have to maintain my mother's) so I'm getting resigned to tarmac, maybe with paved edges to relieve the look of it.😐