WOOD GARDEN FENCE #1-13 thru #1-21

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Available to a maximum width of 60″

Venice Beach, CA

Twenty-one wood fence panels style #1-21, and two double gates style #7. 42″ height.
Prowell Custom Wood Post Caps Style #1.
Lower open slots

Venice, CA

As the front entry, the double off-set gate style #7.
As a 60″ rough opening between posts and only a 42″ height, a single gate stresses the joinery toward the gravity of time. Bascally, without steel, the width cannot exceed the height.

Venice, CA

The side entry off the driveway as another set of double-off-set gates style #7.
74-½” rough opening between posts. As 42″ and 29″ gate widths.
Our wood fence is limited by almost all city codes to 42″ ht from the sidewalk, then up to 72″ ht.

Venice, CA

Installation of the front garden fence completed, but for the post caps.

San Rafael, CA
(No lower open slots)

A t the end of a cul de sac in San Rafael, CA, a series of 18 Fence Panels style #1, coupled with the Drive Gates style #38, Pedestrian Gate style #2, and four Lighted Gate Columns style #10.

San Rafael, CA

The decisions on when or if to step-terrace the panels is largely that of the installer and homeowners, with their direct access to any slopes or undulations in the grade.

San Rafael, CA

As we approach the passage gate foyer.

San Rafael, CA

And of course . . . the passage gate foyer.

Petaluma, CA

Our Custom Wood Fence Panel #1-15 shown on a sloping grade.

66″ ht – 4-Post arbor with insert ceiling and valance panel. Sonoma County, CA

Note: With sloping grades, the options are:
1) To maintain the square geometry of the panels and step the fence.
2) To feather the grade up at the low point of each step
3) To have the bottom horizontal rail run parallel to the grade.
4) And for the more dramatic slopes, to have all the horizontal rails run parallel with the grade, creating a parallelogram.
>>More on Sloping Grades
>>More on Terraced Grades

To a Maximum 60″ net width

Petaluma, CA

Shown from the property side, with the entry gate foyer and Arbor.

Petaluma, CA

The two Fence Panels on the right show the grade with a more severe transition, where we’ve set the bottom rail to match that slope. This is Option ‘B’ under Sloping Grades.

Petaluma, CA

A rare snowfall in Sonoma County.

Milled specifically for Prowell Woodworks as clear, kiln-dried, vertical-grained cedar, with a minimum 20 growth rings per inch. Combined with the wood joinery for seasonal breathing and engineered for seasonal expansion, Prowell’s Western Cedar Fence Panels are indifferent to the snow, heat, rain, and humidity. Although this example has been finished by the homeowners, the decision to paint or stain is strictly aesthetic and does not prolong the life of the fence by one day.

Kentfield, CA (Marin County)

The Wood Fence Panels #1-17 alongside the Garden Gate #2, flanked in turn by two custom column wraps.

To view Gate style #2

Kentfield, CA (Marin County)

Showing the inside of the garden, designed by landscape designer Michelle Derviss
Artisan Garden Design
Novato, CA
[email protected]

Kentfield, CA (Marin County)

Kentfield, CA (Marin County)

Now and again we’ll show a ‘before’ photo.

Woodside, California
(Upper and lower open slots)

Thirteen wood fence panels with lower and upper open slots. Shown with double Garden Gates #31.
Sansin ‘Weathered Wood 04‘ Translucent stain applied on site.

Woodside, California

The wood fence panel #1-22 with upper and lower open slots.

Honolulu, Hawaii
(Lower open slots)

Set atop a lava rock retaining wall fronting the sidewalk.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Shown with gate style #7.
Rocky Mountain latch E414 and dead bolt DB507

Honolulu, Hawaii

Transitioning down to the lower gate.
>>More on Transition Panels

Honolulu, Hawaii

And a second gate, Style #5.

Honolulu, Hawaii

San Rafael, CA

Garden Fence Panel style #1-13 at 48-inches.

Featuring the Cantilevered Corner in foreground.
For more Information on Cantilevered Corners.

Marin County, CA

Illustrating how the Wood Fence Panel is sloped to a dramatic grade, with transitions to level grades.

Wood Fencing on a Slope: Discovering the exact angle of a sloping grade, to the degree, requires returning to old trigonometry textbooks…calculating co-sines. You will need to provide:
1) The level run measurement (A level line the distance of the entire slope. This line begins at the high end on the grade.)
2) The rise. (A straight-edge at the bottom from the grade to where it intersects with the level line above. This distance from the grade to the level line is the ‘rise’.
3) We will take care of the trigonometry.

>>See Sloping Grades

Marin County, CA

Prowell’s Cantilevered Corner. 12″ x 12″.

Marin County, CA

Terraced heights are not quite the same as sloping grades. They are often dealt with by adding a Transition Panel, as shown below. Softening the abruptness of the stepped grades. This is simply a stand-alone panel fixed to the post and the top of the lower panel.

Marin County, CA

Photographed in 2017, 21 years after the installation. Re-stained a darker green.

Marin County, CA

Wood Fence Panel style #1-13 is one of the earlier examples, dated by the photo below of Ben. For several years following the development of the methodologies and designs, the commissions were all local bay area sites and predominantly Marin County. Charles installed these himself, often with Ben’s help. Learning not just the shop specifications, but those specifications for the installations that could be extrapolated into the eventual step-by-step Installation Guide that paved the way for a national patronage.

Ross, CA

Wood Fence Panel style #1-14 in Marin County, CA.

Also showing fence style #2 along the driveway. The panel on the far left has been terraced, stepping from 42″ ht to 72″ within the same panel. See more of this on Terraced Grades.

Ross, CA

By 1998, Charles was nearing the end of field work. By then Ben was 12 and adding a small thrill to the process. But the truth of this product was in the shop, not the field.

Ross, CA

Ben Prowell.

San Jose, CA

A series of low garden fence panels at 42″ height mounted onto a short stone wall. Centered by the Garden Gate style #7.

Photo credit: Ben Prowell

Creating one of two arching Transition Panels that flank the driveway gates for Fence Style 1-24.
More on Transition Panels.

Photo credit: Ben Prowell