Beats dragging half the Sahara into the house as pavers spew sand for the first two years (also beats the ensuing weeds, ants and settling when they finally get plugged with the magical amalgam of guano, dirt, leaf mold). In fact, also beats the inevitable multi-year white efflorescence of pavers...

Thank you. Yes I do like the sound of a charcoal colour but am hoping it won't dominate the look of the house and make it look to dark. Cheers

Probably not a bad choice actually. We'll be seeing a lot more of these permeable driveways in the not to distant future as they reduce rainwater run off from our sites into our gutters. Use a combination of both concrete and permeable perhaps. Such as where you park the bike on its stand or do bike maintenance use concrete. There are other permeable pavers available as well as these ones, council's use them a lot around parklands, trees in footpaths.

there are way too many colours going on here. Your home is a traditional style and yes the cream and green are traditional colours with the reddish brick however why did you put grey around the windows??also you have red scollops above the grey and it doesn't do the house justice. What colour was there before you painted the grey?? considering grey is a more modern colour I think you were attempting to modernise the externals. in saying that the roof would have been better to paint charcoal the cream in white and then the grey and then the driveway would be done in a grey stain. but if you leave it the way it is and cover the red scolloping above the windows the same grey and the bricks below the windows near the ground grey as well then get the drive way restained to the reddish colour of the bricks on the house and then it would blend more and look inviting.