WOOD DRIVEWAY GATES #29

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The Arts & Crafts Wood Driveway Gate #29

Claremont, CA (Near Pasadena)

Prowell’s Lighted Gate Columns mounted over 6″ steel or wood posts. We show a minimal lighted area in this application. Local codes prevented the columns rising any higher than 78″, with the gate height itself at 72″. Because the gate must utilize the steel post within the column for its structural hinging, and the steel posts extend only to the lighted area, we are restricted to some extent on lowering the column height to match the driveway gate. A little confusing, and why every driveway gate with adjoining gate Columns is adapted to the specific application, with dimensioned drawings as a last line of defense.

The matching flanking panels are often employed to fill out a Driveway Gate rough opening.

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Column Style #2

Claremont, CA (Near Pasadena)

Claremont, CA (Near Pasadena)

Photographed in 2024, 19 years after the initial installation.

Below, for those who are interested, is a list of links to where the various other products on this site can be seen–some featured in the Driveway gate gallery and some in the Landscape Lighting gallery, and on and on.
Fence Panels #24
Pony Panels #2
Garden Gate #10
Prowell Lighted Columns #2
Bench #2
Porch Swing #4
Porch Railing #3

Claremont, CA (Near Pasadena)

The flanking panel.

>>To Flanking Panels: Fence Style #29

Claremont, CA (Near Pasadena)

Garden Fence Style #29 was later developed as an accompaniment to Driveway Gate #29.
To Garden Fence #29

South Pasadena, CA

Arts and Crafts Wood Driveway Gate #19-1 features a gabled top rail.

South Pasadena, CA

Gate #19-1 as a Bi-Parting Sliding Driveway Gate function. Each gate sliding away from the center. Shown with a 3rd-party fence.

South Pasadena, CA

Photographed 6 years after installation.
The site-applied finish is gradually wearing down to the weathering cedar.

South Pasadena, CA

The front entry driveway gates with a swing-finction.
A glimpse of the house, which had been empty for some time before our patrons took on the challenge of bringing it back to life.

South Pasadena, CA

Palo Alto, CA

Wood Driveway Gate #19-2. Bi-parting. Non-automated.

Palo Alto, CA

Left to weather, the cedar will age to a silvery gray.

PROGRESS

Ben Prowell gluing up the first stage of the upper patterns to the Arts and Crafts drive gate #29.

Charles gluing up the second stage of the upper patterns.

Charles running the pattern assemblies through the drum sander. The final sanding is with an Random Orbital hand-held sander at 120-grit.

A dry fit, with the yellow rule illustrating the eventual gable layout.

For Driveway Gates without steel frames–at 12′ or less overall rough opening–we use our Joint #9, slightly modified with square shoulders.

The tenon itself buried 3-1/2″ into the horizontal rail, and carries through the vertical stile, where it accepts two quarter-sawn oak wedges, drive in to expand the tenon tightly against the squares shoulders of the mortise. This effectively locks the joint forever, regardless of the local humidity or temperature changes. A somewhat complicated procedure providing the results of an assembly that will never sag.