COLONIAL WOOD DRIVEWAY GATES 9

Wooden Driveway Gates 9 are Base Price + 32%
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Kent Woodlands, CA

With the colonial drive gate 9, in Marin County, California, we first introduced the Colonial-Williamsburg Weave pattern in 2000 for this 1918 residence on seven landscaped acres where we were inspired to mimic the original Colonial Weave porch railings.

We also illustrate one option for managing a soft sloping grade for driveway entrance gates. Each picket, from right to left, grows increasingly longer, with the bottom horizontal gate rail parallel to the sloping grade. This is Option B under Sloping Grade guideline. An additional 7%.
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The grade drops approximately 7″ left-to-right.
Photographed 14 years after the original installation
Shown with Fence Style #23

Kent Woodlands, CA

The colonial pattern grid weave 9 was among the original 20 gate designs mandated by Thomas Jefferson for the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, VA.

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Kent Woodlands, CA

The upper section of the driveway gates provide an opportunity to design toward the precedent of any existing architectural details. Here we pick up on the pattern of the house porch and veranda railings, which unfortunately is not visible from the driveway.

A note on the residence itself. Known locally as the Kent Mansion. The original farmhouse encompassing much of what today is Kent Woodlands. The residential architecture is largely unchanged, and yet at the time of this commission, it had been unoccupied for ten or more years. The new homeowners reached out to Charles and Ben just weeks after the purchase. It was learned on that visit that they would be occupying the home for only a few weeks a year. Not ideal, but better than the long vacancy of the previous ten years.