Driveway Ideas: Cobblestone & Crushed Stone

With the build of the new carriage house (happening within the next eight weeks), we'll also be installing a 300 foot driveway. It's a major project that I'm simultaneously dreading and eagerly anticipating. We'll hire out some of the work, but the majority of the labor will be done by us.  So, after vigorously researching driveway materials over the last few months, Dave and I have both settled on obsessed over the combination of cobblestone and white crushed stone. I LOVE THIS COMBINATION, and I can't be swayed.  I think it could be the perfect look for our 1890s home.

While researching this subject, I've officially become the neighborhood stalker.  It's only a matter of time before someone calls the police on me (I swear).  Here are some driveway photos I've snapped and shared on Instagram this week...

cobblestone apron + crushed stone = total driveway perfection

another lovely cobblestone apron (this time, stretching into asphalt)

white crushed stone

round cobbles with white crushed stone beyond

And, then I found even more inspiring images on Pinterest, to really seal the deal. 

I like the pattern of the cobblestones, where it meets the crushed stone.  Very interesting.

loving this cobblestone edging.  I wonder if we can do this?

pretty cobbles, up close.

white crushed stone.

Gwyneth Paltrow's Los Angeles house with a stunning crushed stone driveway.

more cobbles...

love this sweeping drive, trimmed in stone.

What do you think?  Do you like it?

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