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Driveway Design Ideas
The design of our driveways is often neglected, with functionality taking up all the attention. We tend to forget that our driveway is important in making a good first impression, and can significantly lift the appeal and value of your property. But since you’re here browsing the Houzz image gallery for driveway ideas, you have probably realised that. So where can you find the best ideas to spruce up yours?
As every landscape architect or exterior designer can tell you, the possibilities are endless. You can work with gravel, asphalt, pavers and more. You can go all-out with landscaping and create a garden that blows your visitors away with beautiful flowers and tall trees. And lighting is another consideration which can make a big difference.
Whatever you have in mind, browse our gallery to collect ideas. You can save your favourites and use them to brief your landscaper later, and you can even narrow down your search to driveways in certain styles, sizes or in certain parts of the world - images of Australian driveways will show the right plants straight away, whereas American designs will have to be adapted to your climate. Let’s have a look at some of the most popular driveway ideas.
Green Driveway
If you have caught onto an eco-friendly lifestyle, a green driveway is probably what you want. Driveway ideas with grass come in many forms. For example, you can surround your driveway with grass or other greenery, and set a cobblestone or an asphalt road landing in front of the house, or you can lay pavers and let the grass grow in between. The finishing touch would be adding some other plants like flowers or trees, to round off the look.
Cobblestone Circular Driveway
Circular driveways make a great entrance. Place some greenery or a water fountain in the middle and you’ll instantly add that WOW factor to your home.
Concrete Driveway
A landscape architect can help you design a concrete driveway that will last a lifetime. Combined with an iron fence at the front and night lights all the way to the house, you’re set with a stylish, timeless design.
Once you narrow down your ideas, check out the Houzz directory to find a landscaper to help you bring it to life!
Whether you want inspiration for planning a driveway renovation or are building a designer driveway from scratch, Houzz has 16,498 images from the best designers, decorators, and architects in the country, including Foulsham Corp and Krent Wieland Design, Inc.. Look through driveway photos in different colours and styles and when you find a driveway design that inspires you, save it to an Ideabook or contact the Pro who made it happen to see what kind of design ideas they have for your home. Explore the beautiful driveway ideas photo gallery and find out exactly why Houzz is the best experience for home renovation and design.
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Photo of a mid-sized contemporary front yard full sun driveway in Perth with a container garden and gravel.
Much like Boutique facarde ,flipped -could use refactory brick here - webuser_330464539
Design ideas for a large traditional front yard full sun driveway in Other with a garden path and gravel.
garden, with bush behind - katek92
Photo of a beach style front yard partial sun driveway in Gold Coast - Tweed with brick pavers.
Beach style garden design, Gold coast - webuser_356593002
View of the new entrance to the historical John Randal McDonald designed home. We were retained for the landscape design partially because of our background in architecture and our understanding of the midcentury aesthetic.
Renn Kuhnen Photography
Stepping up - helene1010
Neave Group Outdoor Solutions
Design ideas for a large traditional backyard full sun driveway in New York with a garden path and gravel.
Mass planting - conlfost
The Entry and Parking Courtyard : The approach to the front of the house leads up the driveway into a spacious cobbled courtyard framed by a series of stone walls , which in turn are surrounded by plantings. The stone walls also allow the formation of a secondary room for entry into the garages. The walls extend the architecture of the house into the garden allowing the house to be grounded to the site and connect to the greater landscape.
Photo credit: ROGER FOLEY
mix of hot mix and bricks / pavers - l1977
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Photo of a mid-sized traditional front yard driveway in Wilmington with a garden path and brick pavers.
paver walkway - geoffjen2
The meandering service drive, made of rustic antique pavers, is more of a garden path than drive. Mature Norway Spruce and Dense Yews along with sweeping bands of perennials and groundcovers thrive in the 10 – 12” deep imported soil mix. An elevated tennis court is accented by lush gardens.
Interesting idea with sections of lawn beside driveway - ronaldu
We completely renovated a simple low-lying house for a university family by opening the back side with large windows and a wrap-around patio. The kitchen counter extends to the exterior, enhancing the sense of openness to the outside. Large overhanging soffits and horizontal cedar siding keep the house from overpowering the view and help it settle into the landscape.
An expansive maple floor and white ceiling reinforce the horizontal sense of space.
Phil Bond Photography
Mid Century Landscaping - Old Trellis Paving to new design home with Greenery - andrewstretton
Mid-sized traditional backyard partial sun driveway in Houston with a garden path and concrete pavers for spring.
Russian sage and lady's mantle alternating along a white fence with pink roses
Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional front yard driveway for summer in New York with with flowerbed.
Decoration on the fence. How nice - huanhuan_huang
This is an example of a contemporary side yard driveway in Miami with concrete pavers.
This soft, pastel planting along a driveway draws influence from cottage gardens, although its plant palette was driven largely by voracious deer. This garden was featured in the March/April 2013 issue of Fine Gardening and pictured in the May 2012 issue of Sunset. See more photos of this garden at our website, mosaic-gardens.com.
photo: Buell Steelman, Mosaic Gardens
sloping block needs gardens trees and stone wall - rosiesj
AquaTerra Outdoors was hired to design and install the entire landscape, hardscape and pool for this modern home. Features include Ipe wood deck, river rock details, LED lighting in the pool, limestone decks, water feature wall with custom Bobe water scuppers and more!
Photography: Daniel Driensky
Light pavers with black rock - priscilla323
Cobblestone driveway apron and garden borders. - ©2015 Brian Hill
Inspiration for a large traditional side yard driveway in Boston with natural stone pavers.
Landscape Design: COS Design. Home Design/Construct DDB Design. Photos: Tim Turner Photography. Copyright COS Design
Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary front yard driveway in Melbourne.
Garage with screen to upper windows - webuser_299461668
Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional front yard full sun driveway in Boston with concrete pavers.
Design ideas for an expansive traditional front yard partial sun driveway for spring in Miami with a garden path and natural stone pavers.