What decorative driveways cost: stamped concrete, exposed aggregate and pavers

A plain or broom-finish concrete driveway runs $6 to $12 per square foot,^{2, 4} so a decorative finish is something you pay for on top. What a driveway costs has the plain ranges by size.

The pattern sets where in the range a stamped driveway lands. The two cost guides that give a typical stamped job put it differently: $12 to $18 per square foot in HomeAdvisor's figures,⁴ and $15 to $20 for HomeGuide's mid-range stamped work.²

Exposed aggregate shows the stones in the mix at the surface. HomeAdvisor prices it, and single-color concrete, at $8 to $12 per square foot.⁴ HomeGuide puts exposed aggregate a little lower, at $5 to $11.⁵

Concrete pavers run $10 to $25 per square foot in HomeAdvisor's figures, and brick and natural stone cost more.⁶

• A total for a 2-car paver driveway. There aren't enough published figures to give one. Multiply the per-square-foot range by your driveway's area instead.
• The highest decorative prices one cost guide prints. They're well above every other source, so we don't treat them as typical.
• Permeable pavers. The two figures we found from one publisher disagree with each other.

• Which pattern or color the price is for, and whether a sealer is included.
• For pavers, what goes underneath them and how the edges are held in place.
• Whether removing the old driveway is in the price. What a driveway costs has removal ranges.

Each company on this site is listed with its phone number where it has one, so you can call two or three and compare. You can also send a request through the request form.