ᐅ Widening the driveway – insufficient paving stones

Hello everyone,
I would like to widen our driveway, and the small flower bed shown in the photo is going to be removed.
My problem is that I don’t have enough paving stones left. I have two or three pieces lying around here. I could take some from a corner further up where the trash bins are currently placed. I could separate that area with other stones or slabs. However, according to my calculation, I’m still missing some stones to close the gap.
Now I’m hoping for some good ideas from you. I have already considered removing a few rows of stones near the street in front of the wide concrete strip and laying a different kind of paving there. I had already searched on eBay Classifieds for such stones but didn’t find anything. Do you have any other ideas on how I could solve this? And please, no suggestions like “repave the entire driveway”... I’m not planning that at the moment and it’s not in the budget. Thanks

Really difficult pattern. I can understand that finding a replacement is complicated.

Unfortunately, the only option is to make the area for the trash bins a bit larger with new slabs than you originally calculated, so that you have enough stones.

When calculating, also consider that there are already many cut stones on the front side of the raised bed, which you might not be able to reuse.

Good luck (or more creative suggestions...).

You could remove a few paving stones at the front and fill the area with concrete.

danixf schrieb:

You could remove a few paving stones at the front and fill the space with concrete.

I had thought about that too. I’m just not sure if it would actually look “nice.” But then again, none of it looks really good anyway. Still, it could be an alternative.

Osnabruecker schrieb:


Unfortunately, the only option is to make the area for the trash bins a bit larger using new paving slabs than you originally calculated.

I will have to measure that tomorrow to see if it’s possible and how big the space by the trash bins would be. Thanks

The shape of the tile is called Arabesque / Arabesk. Maybe this will help with your further search.