I went with Hand Designs. Beautiful, great quality, and very professional. Highly recommend if they have a style you like.

I’ve sold a lot of homes in Florida including 5 in the villages , no one ever said to me oh your home is lovely but your driveway has a brown spot so we won’t be buying , I always have nice landscaping, I don’t even notice the driveway being any different then the expensive customized ones , I also don’t care about the garage floor or insulating it , ,I don’t live in it ,I’m just passing through to my beautiful decorated home

You must be Larry who is always on the ************* with useless, nasty comments.

Excuse Me
 

I apologize for this post because it is completely off-topic. Can anyone tell me how I go about posting something on TOTV? I've looked the site over and have been unsuccessful in finding any instructions to post a question. If you'd like to send me a PM, that would be great, but then I'll need to jump through the hoops to locate the message. Thanks.

Look at your options
 

My research on TOTV led me to get quotes from:
- Edison ConCreations (352)406-8775 multiple reccos, great reviews
- DECORATIVE CONCRETE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, INC., Cliff, (352) 620-9561 or 352-220-8766 multi reccos
- B&D Driveway Designs 352-455-9614 multi reccos

On the design, we spent several months (riding our bikes through the neighborhoods) looking at other driveways, deciding which ones we liked and what we thought would look good with our house colors. We did not care for the matte finish ones, but did ensure that although ours is slightly shiny it has good traction when wet. We opted for a design that was not really 'artistic', so it blends with the house instead of drawing attention to itself - personal preference, and the result of a LOT of looking and discussing.

We found that the companies that gave bids all had binders of examples and could pretty much do most of the patterns we saw. Our job wasn't just the driveway/front walk; we also had a birdcage that had been badly painted and was peeling which needed to be ground off then treated, plus a large concrete patio.

Our bids ranged from $3k to $5k, and I think any of the three would have done a great job. I suspect it would have been higher if it had been a complicated and artistic depiction.

Go to "forum", and then "all forums home". Select a forum topic and then click on "post a new thread".

You don't have to seal it occasionally? Has it faded?

I'm not Larry, and I don't think my post was nasty, just truthful. I don't clean my concrete driveway.

Kinda like an (acid) rain wash! ;)

Before moving from the North (Michigan) to the South (North Carolina), I had never heard of the concept of fancy driveways. I could not see what the point of them was or how they could be worth the cost. When we retired and moved to The Villages, I saw lots of them but it didn't change my mind. After three years of living happily without one, we moved to a different (and rather nicer) house in a different neighborhood. After all, aren't we required to own 3 or more houses during our stays here? Anyway, the new one has a painted driveway that extends right into the garage and the birdcage has a matching finish. We love it and can't imagine having boring, grey concrete slabs for our driveway, garage or birdcage. As for maintenance, I am clueless and will be following this thread to see what we're going to be needing to do in the future to keep these looking good.

Driveways by Jay
 

Do you have his number? I tried to google but no luck.

I has H-D Hand Design and am very happy with the results. It cost $4200 but I do have a driveway that is wider and deeper than most.

I'm very happy with results and would recommend them to anyone. They are usually about 6 months out but came on the day they
estimated and worked hard to get it done in two days.

I enjoy mine every day. Mrs. Laker and I are very happy with the result we got when we had our driveway done. We spent money on it, got a result we love.

We don't feel like that money was wasted any more than we would feel money spent on a nice meal is wasted. We could have stayed home, eaten rice and beans and been just as well nourished, yet we went out, spent many times more than the rice and beans would have cost us, and still, somehow, didn't feel the money was wasted.

Go figure.

Original installer (Jay) came back after several years and indicated that they no longer recommend sealing their work apparently due to the possibility of the sealer becoming cloudy their recommendation was to wash with DAWN, then power wash.

Jay is contacted through Hometown services, I will need to find the paperwork if you cannot find a phone number, let me know.