WOOD GATES #101

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Berkely, CA

Garden gate style #101-1 in the Berkeley hills. The grid dividers are 2-1/4″ width, with each grid opening at 2-7/8″ square. Thickness defaults to 1-5/8″ (1-7/8″ thickness is optional. )

Berkely, CA

One of the more accentuated garden gate entrances on the web site. The combination of the cedar shake walls and the workmanship featured with the detail of small tight ope grids.  That an entry gate should be an aesthetic continuation of the fence is not necessarily wrong, but the gate is your entrance, what is touched and gripped and the portal to the property. Whereas the fence is present to separate you from that same property. 

Berkely, CA

Wood garden gate #101-2 with the Rocky Mountain Gate Latch GL-E236 and Rocky Mountain Concealed Bearing Extruded Hinge HNG4A (4-1/2″ x 4-1/2″)
Patina: Silicone Bronze Rust

Berkely, CA

An alternate approach to mounting the latch strike plate, as well as the hinges. Blocks milled and tapered by Prowell to match the profile of the shingles.
The result is an alternative to jambs, which leave a gap at each shingle course, as well as adding muscle to the overall footprint.

Rocky Mountain Gate Latch GL-E236.

A rainy day for photographing gates.

Berkely, CA

G arden Gate #101 is matched on this property with a series of complimenting fence and railing styles. See Fence Style #7 sprinkled throughout the property. The view from the Berkeley hills with the San Francisco Bay in the distance.

Berkely, CA

A look at the overall architecture. A number of matching fence and railing panels, balanced with the centerpiece wood gates design 101-2.

La Quinta, CA

Garden gate #101 was created for a home in La Quinta, CA. Although available to your own specifications, the below gates are 93″ height, with a rough opening between posts of 78″.

The wood grid dividers 2-5/8″ wide. The grid openings are 2-5/8″ square. The default thickness is 1-5/8″. 1-7/8″ thickness is optional.

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)
Architecture/Designer: Andrew Schaffner

Wood gates #101 as an access to the inner courtyard, although it would appear to be the main entrance.

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)
Architecture/Designer: Andrew Schaffner

The wood garden gate #101 as another auxiliary entrance to the same courtyard, featuring the same wood garden gate #101.

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)

The tight flush-joined grids of the wooden gates design #101.

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)
Architecture/Designer: Andrew SchaffnerWithin the courtyard, a pair of oversize shutters, with a single garden gate access seen to the right. For more on the Shutter Style #2

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)
Architecture/Designer: Andrew SchaffnerWood gates #101A features a narrow version of the above #101. At 33″ net width.

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)
Architecture/Designer: Andrew Schaffner

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)

La Quinta, CA (Palm Springs area)

For fun, a photo showing the outer courtyard, viewed from the inner courtyard.

Marin County

Double gates #101-4 are 6′ 3″ rough opening width x 6′ ht from grade. Grids at 2.56″ square. Grid dividers at 2-1/4″ width.

IN-PROGRESS
How to build this wood gate.

Ben with the completed panels and gates for 101-2Photo credit: Ben Prowell

Cutting the flush-joined half-laps.

Dadoes cut and stacked for wood garden gate #101, nearly ready for assembly.

Assembling the grids. 130 half-lap joints per panel, one joint at a time.

The tighter the growth rings, the older the tree at harvest. The result: more stable assemblies.The ideal is rings that are 90º down the end-grain.

Typical bottom rail joinery for wood gates #101 in-progress. Through-tenons with return locking wedges.

Typical top rail joinery. All finished.