Resin driveway colours
There are around 48 blends in general UK circulation. Colour is also one of the few choices on a resin driveway that genuinely moves the price — here is which way, and by how much.
Resin bound driveways get their colour from the aggregate, not from a dye. The resin is clear; what you see is the stone. That matters for cost, because stone is bought by the tonne and some blends cost considerably more than others.
MyBuilder puts the premium for bespoke blends, recycled glass and marble aggregates at 30 to 50 per cent on material costs, against standard aggregates such as golden quartz or silver granite. On a 50m² drive, where materials run roughly £2,000 to £3,500 on the published rates, that is a few hundred pounds — real money, but rarely the line that decides the quote.
Choosing a colour without regretting it
Look at it against your own brickwork, in daylight
DALTEX recommends holding a sample against the exterior of the house and looking at it through the day. Resin bound is a 15 to 20 year surface; a sample seen once under a showroom light is not enough to commit to.
Light colours need more cleaning
The manufacturer is blunt about it: a lighter driveway needs more regular cleaning to keep its impact, in the same way white walls indoors do. Whites, creams and pale beiges show tyre marks and organic staining first.
Black is usually better as a border
Black blends are most often used as an accent to frame another colour rather than laid across a whole drive, and they work particularly well against creams, whites and silvers.
UV stability is a colour question too
Checkatrade notes that non-UV-stable resin discolours, and that anything left standing on it — a bin, a plant pot — leaves a mark round the edges. It also puts UV-stable resin at close to twice the price. That choice affects how your colour looks in five years more than the blend does.
Blends, by colour family
Colour names and family groupings follow the manufacturer's own published guide. Nothing here is a blend we invented or renamed.
Gold and yellow
The most common choice on UK drives. Warm, forgiving of dust and leaf litter, and it sits comfortably against red or buff brickwork.
A single-colour warm gold rather than a blend.
Golden brown, autumnal, with visible variation in the stone.
Golden, white, brown and red stone mixed together.
Bright rich gold lifted with soft beige.
Soft, sandy, low-contrast gold.
Warm coffee browns through to light gold.
Pale straw gold with gentle variation.
Silver and grey
The contemporary default. Reads cool and clean against render, grey brick and modern glazing, and contrasts hard against traditional red brick.
Cream, white and beige
The brightest option and the highest maintenance. Excellent on south-facing frontages, unforgiving of tyre marks and overhanging trees.
Red and russet
Traditional and high-impact. Works with stone and older brick, and is the family most often used for patterns, borders and lettering.
Black and charcoal
Modern and severe. More often a border or an accent than a whole driveway, though it does work as one.
Pink and blush
The quiet outlier. Subtle at a distance, distinctive close up, and it suits period brick better than most people expect.
DALTEX is the UK aggregate manufacturer whose Bespoke range of 48 blends is used by most resin bound installers. Colour names and family groupings on this site follow their published guide. Colour data read on 2026-09-27 from DALTEX: Resin Bound Gravel Colours Guide.
Where these prices come from
Four published UK cost guides. We read them on 27 September 2026, recorded what each one says, and cite them per figure rather than blending them into an average that belongs to nobody.
- Guide updated:
- Cost tables dated April–June 2026; page dated 02/2026
- Read by us:
- 2026-09-27
- Guide updated:
- 26 August 2026
- Read by us:
- 2026-09-27
- Guide updated:
- 21 August 2026
- Read by us:
- 2026-09-27
- Guide updated:
- 29 August 2025
- Read by us:
- 2026-09-27
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