Hello,

We are getting ready to widen our driveway. When this happens we will need a retaining wall along the drive to the left in the picture (the wall won't go the entire driveway, about 30 feet along the left of the drive in picture). Along the right you'll see that we are removing a timber retaining wall that is failing and planning to take up the brink walkway.

The current thought is to replace the timber retaining wall along the walkway with concrete blocks and dry-stacked stone wall for "look" and the walkway way with random, right angled bluestone and add some gentle curves along the wall and walk....

Questions:

1 - What do we use along the driveway to the left? While I'd love to use the same stacked stone wall effect I'm afraid it will be too expensive. Would it look strange to have a techno-bloc style (thinking similar to mini-creta or Brandon) wall along the drive to the left and the stacked stone wall to the right?

2 - Do we edge the Bluestone walk with brick, bluestone or keep natural? Our front steps and foundation around house is brick. (House 30 years old, so not changing the brick on stairs or foundation).

Sample Dry-Stacked Wall:

https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-landscape-traditional-landscape-philadelphia-phvw-vp~2347827

Sample: BlueStone Walkway:

https://www.houzz.com/photos/random-pattern-bluestone-patio-phbr0lbl-bl~l_89608

Suggested Driveway Wall:

https://www.techo-bloc.com/en/products/brandon-wall/

thank you in advance for the help!

Amy