The Wood Drive Gates presented on the following pages will appear as a departure from the more common structures most of us associate with this genre. Almost from the moment Prowell turned his attention to this long neglected feature, the bar was raised to a new standard. No longer was it a choice between the limitations of the wrought iron Drive Gates, with its cold indifference to the surrounding landscape and architecture, but suddenly an opportunity to showcase the inherent warmth of your property as a front-and-center feature.

Often, and given the Drive Gate's prominent setting, the more telling architectural precedent's of the residence will find their way into the gate design. Perhaps there is a distinction to the front windows and the pattern of their dividers, or a defining detail to the porch railing. Although given the Gate's advantage of being the first and most prominent impression, the goal is not to design an Entry Gate that upstages the integrity of your residence and landscape. The goal, rather, is to incorporate the property in a manner that allows the Driveway Entry Gate to appear as an original element.

If you are in the habit of one-click shopping, then it is best at this juncture to close this page and call your contractor and look away when he arrives with his skill-saw and his screw-gun. Or better, take a trip, and upon your return plan to decorate your investment with each holiday in a way that will completely obscure it from view. Hide it as best you can and make a mental note how life was simpler living in a rented apartment. But assuming the rest of the family doesn't agree, and you've invested a piece of your heart in this home and its surrounding garden and you're in no mood for the open irreverence of painted iron and steel, then you are left with only one choice. In the entire country.