Surface for the driveway?

According to the development plan, we are required to use an insurable surface, but somehow I can't really find anything we like... On the one hand, I'm rather pragmatic or stingy and don't want to bury a fortune in the driveway, on the other hand, I would also like something green instead of countless square meters of concrete paving. We somehow don't like classic grass grid stones, just like those honeycomb shapes that you fill with gravel or grass. I basically find gravel lawn quite nice, but I imagine it would suck for snow clearing in winter.

Does anyone have a good tip or an alternative to the classic concrete wastelands? Maybe a hybrid of large-format slabs with gravel lawn in between? Then you could at least clear 50% of the driveway in winter depending on the laying pattern?

If you pave the 2 strips flat, you can also clear snow.

A gravel lawn

Gravel lawn

What is a gravel lawn?
Well, we have coarse gravel, also called crushed stone. Nice granite-colored, classy. It has nothing to do with grass.
Everything seeps away. It was cheap too.
Because it’s so great, we also did a 1.50-meter-wide splash guard with a path around the house.

But I imagine it sucks when shoveling snow in winter.

Snow doesn’t stay on it. That’s that. Everything around it is green – for bees and me.

But since we get quite a lot of snow here (Mittelgebirge 550 m), I have concerns about this.

Nevertheless, I would be interested in pictures of your gravel, especially the splash guard – after all, it kills two birds with one stone, right?

Thank you for the information about the gravel lawn. Older photos of our property can be found in the construction blog, which can be accessed from my profile. Just scroll to the garden layout.

Water-bound surfaces would also be an option, but they can weaken under heavy rain and traffic. Depending on the construction, they have a very natural character.

I would not use grass pavers. They only look good in catalogs; in reality, I have never seen them as lush green. Dirt just accumulates in the stones.