Pave Stone driveways--enlighten me

I don’t have a paver driveway but I do have a walkway that runs down the side of the house to a small patio and then continues along the side and front of the deck. If I had it to do over again I would have done stamped concrete. You get the look without the maintenance. I’m tired of having low spots fixed, sweeping in new sand and fighting the weeds and grass that somehow manage to grow in that tiny little space between the pavers. 

I wouldnt. Slippery as hell. My in-laws have one driveway made of pavers and their back patio is as well. I cant tell you how many people have wiped out on them.

Oh wanted to add that we also have stamped concrete. I love that but the builder did the color AFTER the stamping, and it is wearing off and a pain. If I did it again, I would have the color mixed in with the concrete and then stamped.

I agree with this. Where I live, many people have stamped concrete driveways that have to have the colour reapplied every couple years.  I’m sure harsh winters and shovelling snow don’t help.  Our sidewalks are uncoloured stamped concrete and they’ve held up very well.  

We have an areas of stamped concrete and areas of pavers in our back yard. I prefer the look of pavers but they are more work in terms of weeding, etc. 

100% this. We installed a paver patio in front of the walkout patio door under our deck at the cabin. I really, REALLY wanted stamped concrete but that wasn’t in the budget so pavers it was.

I’m not gonna lie, I *HATE* it. Even though we had the base gravel and sand totally impacted under the pavers, we had to do the stupid locking sand at least four times before it finally filled in all the gaps. Or so we thought. The following spring we already started having weeds pop up in places and some of them are near impossible to pull out. Weed killer spray helps some, but they just keep coming.

Stamped concrete would have prevented all that and would have been well worth the added expense, IMO.

We have exposed aggregate "trim" on either side of our concrete driveway and our sidewalk is all exposed aggregate finish.

It makes it a little fancier (and less slippery) than plain concrete, though not as decorative as the stamped.

My brother has one, and despite his driveway being relatively short and almost perfectly level, it's still a bit dicey in the winter in terms of how slippery it gets. I think it's because you can't seem to get that last thin bit of snow off of the pavers & it keeps freezing over.

Also, he spends a lot of time pulling & spraying the weeds in that driveway trying to kill them. They put down a "weed-proof" membrane before the pavers went down, but Mother Nature is feisty & she laughs in the face of weed-proof barriers, apparently

Lastly, despite it being a level driveway, the pavers tend to keep moving a bit--some move apart, some rise up or sink down. It's a labor intensive driveway---at least in an area with a lot of freezing & thawing.