GARDEN GATE 61

Garden Gate 61 is Base Price + 20%-36%
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Horizontal wood garden gate 61, with planks at 5-1/4″ wide by a full thickness, insuring against bowing, etc. Spacing from 3/4″ to 1-1/2″. Garden gate #61 is a lumber hog, hence the +20%.

Tiburon, CA

Gate 61-1, and Gardens. The first-impression of a well designed landscape.

Tiburon, CA

Pretty . . . yes, a pretty little horizontal wood garden gate. But a working gate whose job description is preventing pooch from escaping for a swim in the Tiburon Bay.

The original design for the horizontal garden gate 61 in Atherton, California., Each of the 3/4″ spacings are dadoed and fitted with floating cedar strips, for full privacy.

Atherton, California

With a height of 8′ 2″, the horizontal wood gate 61 defines security and privacy.

Atherton, California

Showing the matching driveway privacy gate #17.

Atherton, California

A combination of the pedestrian gate 60 and driveway gate style 17 as the epitome of privacy and security.

Sonoma, CA
Garden gate 61-3 shown with Fence Style #17

Sonoma, California

Rocky Mountain latch E414 and dead bolt DB507. Dark Bronze Lustre patina.

Castro Valley, CA
As an atrium passage.

Atherton, California

Let’s take a minute to review the reburbished home.

Joseph Eichler was a mid-20th century real estate developer who is largely credited with designing and developing the modern tract homes that sprang up throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in the years directly following WWII. A solution to the multitudes of servicemen and their VA housing loans as an affordable, almost modular step toward a re-entry into peacetime life. The homes are recognizable for their low pitch, vaulted rooflines, cricket valleys, and shed-roof carports, in addition to the less visible lack of insulation, leaking roofs, low-grade single-pane aluminum windows, and of course the introduction of hollow-core interior doors. Sound appealing? Well, as it turns out, their survival has lasted some 75 years and in recent years resurfaced as iconic acquisitions throughout northern California. Below, following a complete renovation.
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IN-PROGRESS
How do I build a wood gate?

Showing a typical stile, with its innumerable mortising. Breaching our horizontal wood gate 61 will require more than the average effort.

Because the 61-2 has solid inserts between each rail, we see below the empty mortises that allow the inserts to feed into the stiles.

Dry-fitting prior to the final assembly of the gate 61. Spacer blocks in place to insure the spacing is symmetrical.