This web site, features our signature Garden Gate, Garden Arbor, Porch Swing, Gate Hardware, and Driveway Gates, as well as a host of accompanying products listed in the Site Map, the Product page, and at the table of Galleries at the bottom of every product page. In all, over 850 pages and 2,000 images of CPW innovations in design and workmanshio to choose from.

The Garden Gate: In the early 90's, drawing on a rare combination of skills developed decades earlier through an apprenticeship with his father (a custom homebuilder)--his grandfather (a furnituremaker), and his mother (an artist/illustrator), Prowell considered the methods required to design and produce a Wood Gate of exterior joinery, exposed to the elements and subject to dimensional changes with the changing seasons. Garden Gates with the complicated joinery and integrity of his years as a furniture designer/craftsman, combined with the understanding of how wooden structures need to breathe. Those master woodworkers and furniture makers with an understanding of the complicated art of joining wood have little experience with releasing their work to the ravages of rain, snow, and freezes. Those journeyman carpenters who commonly work with this in mind, in turn have no understanding of advanced joinery and wood movement. 

--There is no hardware in the Wooden Gates. There are no screws or nails or metal straps. There is only the joinery, a practiced and long developed eye for design, and a product drawn from countless prototypes that will not sag and will stand proud as a work to be appreciated for decades. Prowell's Fence Gate is commissioned world wide, and every commissions begins here, on this site.

--Concurrently, Prowell's Wood Fence Design establishes the high watermark for this genre. It is a tragedy to find the finely-crafted homes and grounds embellished with the same Wooden Fence available to the tract-home developer; this first-impression view of any property relegated to the same inferior woods cobbled into the same wooden fencelines by carpenters and their framing hammers. Once again, Prowell's Garden Fence relies on joinery, the highest grade of clear dry Port Orford Cedar, and an eye for design first developed as a young apprentice under his father grandfather, mother, and later as a graduate of Southern Illinois University, studying Architecture, Art, and Design--under Buckminster Fuller--and ultimately from his 31 years in business--designing, developing, and crafting innovative works of art.

--Driveway Gates are offered on Gallery 2, as either 2-1/4" thickness or 3" thickness with embedded steel frames.  The designs and style and methods of construction are complimentary to the Wood Gate and Fence.  Almost all of the Garden Gate Design options are available as a Driveway Gate.

--An extensive selection of our signatory Garden Arbor is designed as extension assemblies to your existing Gate or Pilaster openings. The Garden Arbor arrives fully assembled and simply mount onto the tops of the Gate posts.   As a Garden Arbor, they accentuate masonry wall openings or find their way anywhere within the landscape as an architectural detail.   And within this same gallery, the Garden Trellis, intended to mount against a side-wall or as a free-standing ornament.

--Introducing a CPW Porch Swing where we establish both a sense of workmanship and physical poetry to the featured approach of a genre too long ignored, as well as the connotations of leisure and conversation associated with this.

--We are proud to represent Rocky Mountain Hardware for our primary offerings in Bronze Gate Harware.