WOOD GARDEN GATES #29

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Greenbrae, CA

The contrast of a white stucco privacy wall with the WoodRX Chestnut finish on wooden gate door #29-10 in Greenbrae, CA (Marin County)

Rocky Mountain gate latch E414 and the matching deadbolt DB511.
Because the gate height is only 48″, the dead bolt has been placed below the latch, making it somewhat cumbersome–although not impossible–to reach and release by reaching over the short gate.

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Greenbrae, CA

One of two entry access wood gates to the property

Seattle, Washington

Prowell’s inimitable wood garden gate 29-18. Copied, undercut, and knocked-off by more aspiring gate-makers than there are diamond thieves in South Africa.

How hard can it be? it’s one of the simpler gates we offer. And yet for almost a dozen consecutive years–long before the first knock-off artist arrived on the scene– #29 held the top spot in sales from an expanding corpus of the original ten gate styles to when we reached 80 and only then did it slip. Slip to below the top ten over the following few years because 1) We developed the similar Gate style #31 and #30- 2) Our later designs were simply better? 3) The knock-offs had propagated like baby buzzards, zeroing in on the simplest of Prowell’s designs that fell within their do-able sphere; 4) No one is impressed with the original connection to Isabel Allende since no one actually still reads her books? Or reads at all.

We begin with a late 2017 commission in Seattle, returning to the landscape architect Bill Williamson who has repositioned the horizontal middle rails to accommodate the decorative hinge-fronts. He has also shown us his own solution to the common setting for the #29 that fits to an encompassing surround stucco wrap. The jambs here had been embedded into a pre-formed casting, allowing the gate itself to fill the opening w/o the visible muscle of the jambs. There is also a bent-lamination header trim to complete the entry.

Hardware:

Rocky Mountain latch E414.
Rocky Mountain Dead Bolt: DB507
Rocky Mountain Decorative Hinges OHS137

San Rafael, CA

The original wood garden gate #29 was designed and created for novelist Isabel Allende in Marin County, CA.
For 25 years commanding the top position on this page until up-ended by someone in the above photos who simply knows their way around a camera lens.

Note: The false hinge-fronts shown were custom made by a small decorative ironworker in North Carolina who is no longer practicing his trade.

San Rafael, CA

A good gate design incorporates the Gate, the Garden, and the Home, into a single context.

San Rafael, CA

Showing Prowell’s original Wood Driveway Gate #6, designed as a compliment to the garden gate #29.

San Rafael, CA

The wood garden gate #29 marking the entry into the back patio, flanked by a pair of Prowell’s matching solid fence panels@ Base + 4%

Prowell’s original wood privacy gate #29, featured in:
Fences, Gates, and Walls Shiffer Publishers.2007
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San Francisco, CA (Sea Cliff neighborhood)

Privacy garden gate #29-19 slopes 1″ left-to-right. Warranting no change in the gate’s construction.
The driveway gate, however, slopes 7″ over 9-1/2′, requiring Option C of the Sloping Grade Options

San Francisco, CA

Once in a while Prowell will agree to providing the header jamb. For this, we require a template of the opening mailed to us. No mathematical radiuses. A tangible template, from which we can match the existing arch.

Hinges sourced by the homeowners

P.S: The gray skies? If you move to the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco, you’ve made a pact with yourself to welcome 300 days a year of fog so thick, the Golden Gate Bridge in the near distance is a faint outline. The same bridge that added a small fortune to the price you paid to have such a view in the first place. On the other hand, if you detest heat, humidity, blazing sunlight, ice storms, hurricanes, snowstorms, and rampaging floodwaters, the Sea Cliff neighborhood is a slice of heaven. Highs in the low 60’s and lows in the high 50’s, day after day after day.

Palo Alto, CA
+ Optional Bronze clavos

Arched garden gate #29-20 opts for full 6×6 cedar posts over the standard jambs of 1-½” thickness. Posts sourced by installer.

Palo Alto, CA

A look at the residence, as well as the accompanying Driveway Gate Style #8.

Alamo, CA

Wood garden gate #29-21 adorned by mature rose bushes.

Seattle, WA

Less a photo highlighting the privacy wood gate than something to show us how the gate itself is one component in a wheel of contributing elements. The gate is mildly distressed to help create the look of an aged setting.

Houston, Texas

One of a series of Gates and Flanking Panel Fence designs for the East Shore of the Woodlands Housing Park in Houston,Texas.

Flanking Panel Price Link: Base less 4%

Houston, Texas

The only photo we have of the completed East Shore Walk in the Woodlands Park, Houston.. Although not visible, each of the homes have a distinctive Prowell garden gate and flanking panels leading off the walkway.

Little Rock, Arkansa

The established beauty of locally quarried stone pillars is always a plus.

Showing the RMH Bronze decorative hinge-fronts OHS106
RMH latch E701

Hampstead, North Carolina

As a semi-privacy fence gate leading into an inner foyer courtyard.

Featuring Speakeasy Style #2, where the normal placement of the two horizontal mid-rails on the standard #29 have been altered to accommodate the speakeasy at 58″-62″ ht from grade.

At the risk of boring you, we’ll scroll through a few more offerings of Gate style #29

Base Price + 12%
Tiburon, CA

A typical arched gate #29 within a typical Californian propensity for stucco privacy walls.
All so very very typical. Not so typical if you’re viewing this image from just about anywhere else on the planet.

And for the heck of it, the view looking out from the inner courtyard– Tiburon Bay, Belvedere, and the San Francisco skyline. A view that’s configured and negotiated into the asking price of the actual lot and the house like the blue-ribbon appendage that it is.

Price: Base + 23%/ per gate
Apple Valley, CA

The double Wood privacy gates #29-5 with a full Roman arch.