Gravel edging to tarmac driveway

[MaJoady]

Our house has a driveway that is just about big enough to park 2 cars side by side on, but it's tight. Currently we park in something like a brick pattern that allows us to open the car doors easily and not block each other in.

It would be ideal to widen the driveway slightly to allow us to park next to each other and be able to get out of the car without stepping onto the grass of the front garden (gets muddy in winter or wears and unsightly bare spot in summer)

It's not enough of an issue to make resurfacing the whole drive worth it. And I think a strip of new tarmac next to the current drive would look shit. But would a gravel age look ok? It would only be one side as the tarmac goes right up to the boundary on the other side

I'd be more concerned about the gravel continually spreading about.
I've got a gravel drive and there is always gravel on the tarmac pavement in front and some into the road. I kick it back and brush up regularly.

A tarmac strip would look jarring initially, but would fade.

What about some other form of hard standing as an edging?

My neighbours did this. It's caused them no end of trouble. First they did it without a grid, resulting in gravel all over the pavement. Then they put in a grid and it looks a bit naff and the gravel still migrates.

We’ve got a gravel edging on the lawn side of our shared drive - it was professionally done when we had our new drive laid and has line of bricks between the tarmac and the gravel which adds some interest
It causes no issue whatsoever and means on the drivers side we don’t get out of the car straight onto the grass.
It’s been like this for a couple of years now and apart from it being a magnet for the toddlers when it first laid it causes us no problems at all now
Go for it

I suppose it will make a difference to gravel movement whether you are driving/parking on the gravel strip, or just exiting the vehicle and walking on it.

There is a product called "Hoggin" which can be rolled flat and resembles gravel, but does not scuff and spread. I've had it, it needed patching and re-rolling when it was about 60 years old.

If you only need a narrow edging, a strip of paving bricks can be very neat.

We just widened our concrete drive with a two feet wide strip of new concrete. Within a few years it had all weathered in. Changed our lives!