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A series of variations on our original Driveway Gate Design.

Drive Gate #2
This Driveway Gate is Base Price  + 4%
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Wooden Driveway Gates
A pair of grid patterns shouldering each Drive Gate. Sliding gates are surfaced-mounted to an exposed steel frame, visible on the inside face of the gate.
Custom Driveway gates



Street-side presence of a small lot in need of privacy.  Two sliding drive gates access a circular drive, centered by a 4-post Entry gate with Arching Arbor, 
Wood Driveway Gates

Drive gate #2-1

This gate is Base Price  + 6% ( with the 'Racked" bottom rail)
  #2-1, with it's standard pickets. Automated. Single-Span Sliding Driveway Gate mounted onto an exposed steel frame.
-Total Opening: 17 feet
-Illustrating a drive grade that slopes to the left, as well as down toward the house. The top rail is level, with the bottom rail running parallel to the slope, and consequently, the lower panels grows increasingly longer.
 

Sloped Driveway Gates
 
  The panels to each side are 'stepped', carrying the climbing grade. The bottom of the gate is contoured to the grade, with the top of the gate level.

Sliding Driveway Gates

And one more: Drive Gate #2-2
This Driveway Gate is Base Price
-A Sausalito, CA property with Double Entry Driveway Gates sliding as a single span. Surface-mounted to a steel frame exposed on the yard side.
-- Once again, we illustrate the 'racked' bottom rail, running parallel to a severe slope.
Driveway Gate Design

 

--One of the options for configuring sliding-gate rollers (maintaining the allignment of the Drive Gate) is shown below, with the rollers in contact with the gate.  The disadvantage is that often the rollers will blemish the finish of a painted gate as they slide open and closed.
-- The other optio for rollers n is shown on Drive Gate #24
Driveway Gate Wood

Drive gate #2-3
Base price

   This double-swing gate remains on the site in deference to one of the twelve families who steadfastly patronized Prowell's work in the 80's, commissioning endless furnishings and interior make-overs. We were a young family then, with babies and an at-home mom and the loyalty of these patrons will never be forgotten.
Driveway Gates

Drive gate #2-4

Base price
   And finally, The Driveway Gate #2 with straightvertical pickets illustrating how the Gate has been configured to act as a pedestrian access as well, simply by off-setting the widths of the two gates.  The larger gate is fixed in place with a cane bolt.
Custom Wood Drive Gates

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#2------#1999-Allison
#2-1---#0108-Tugwell
#2-2---#0231-Fishman
#2-3--Miller
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