WOOD GARDEN GATES #38

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A typical cropped example of the Craftsman Wood Gate style #38.

San Diego, CA

A straight forward photo that illustrates the basic pattern of the Arts and Crafts garden gate #38. The pattern varies to accommodate different gate widths. The same basic layout, but for the slight changes when the wider widths requires additional pickets, as illustrated in several examples below.

San Diego, CA

We’ll include a ‘before’ photo of the house, simply because it’s charming.

San Anselmo, CA
(With the upper open mortised squares)

This Arts and Crafts Garden Gate represents the original #38, created for a newly renovated Craftsman home belonging to the former, long-time manager of the Grateful Dead.

San Anselmo, CA

Photographed from within the yard some 20 years later.

Shown with Wood Fence Style #2-10

Santa Rosa, CA
(No open mortised squares)

Wood gate #38-1 as double gates. Because of the wonderful, but irregular stone, the jambs were mounted to the column’s block core. A measurement was provided from the block to the outermost edge of the stone. Prowell created jambs that were 1/2″ thicker, or deeper, than the provided dimension, allowing free swing and preventing the gate from striking or binding on the stone. — Our overall opening is 79″, and at a height of 83″.
Without the open mortised squares along the top rail

A closer look at the upper pattern for the craftsman garden gate #38-1.

The G640 Lariat Grips from Rocky Mountain Hardware are 16″ C to C, with back plate escutcheons G684 at 24″ length x 3-1/2″. Available with the backplate, or mounted directly to the gate.

The inside face of Garden Gate #38-1 as an example of gates without the usual latches, preferring instead the Rocky Mountain grips upon approach and on the inside, from 3rd-party Coastal Bronze Hardware, the #40-700 grips and the 50-400 clasp. Also shown is the #80-100 Cane Bolt. The 50-400 clasp can be secured with a padlock, when away for the weekend. Not a combination we see too often, simply because it disallows entry from the street, and if you disengage the clasp to allow that entry, the gates have no means of latching to a closed position.

San Anselmo, CA
(With open mortised squares in top rail)

We include the wood gate #38-4 simply to illustrate that not all of our Garden Gates are flanked by Prowell’s fence panels nor do they all adorn mega-mansions. A hog-wire fence isn’t normally associated with an aesthetic border, and yet it can work, and in fact does appear to work in this setting.An example of a site photo we’d like to see in another couple of years when the fencing is softened with climbing vines.

Santa Barbara, CA

Wood gate #38-3 illustrating a slightly varied grid pattern. Finished by the homeowners with WoodRX Ultra ‘Natural’ with the upper grid and lower pickets, and WoodRX ‘Chestnut’ for the stiles and rails. The overhead arbor is provided by the homeowner.
Rocky Mountain Gate Latch E414.

Santa Barbara, CA

The side wood fence gate, as with #38-4, illustrates how it is acceptable to couple the open style of the #38 with a clean wire fence construction.
Rocky Mountain Gate Latch E414

Santa Barbara, CA

The matching manual Driveway Gate #20
Rocky Mountain Gate Latch E414

Top arched rail
Upper mortised squares
Bottom rail grid

Arts and Crafts garden gate #38-5 features an augmented grid off the bottom rail and borrows the partial arch of Gate #53

. . and in doing so has apparently attracted the attention of the local paparazzi.

Berkeley, CA

Wood gate #38-7 in Marin County, CA as a Double-Off-set and flanking panel style #2.
WoodRX pre-finish: ‘Teak’
Double gates utilize the hardware shown below:
Cane Bolt #CB
Gate Stop
Rocky Mountain Gate Latch E414

(The only one of these three you’re required to use is the Gate stop. The latch and cane bolt can be sourced elsewhere, if you prefer.)

See more on Double Off-Set Garden Gates

IN-PROGRESS
How do I build a wood gate?

The upper pattern is assembled and glued to the top and mid rails, followed by the lower pickets glued to the upper section and bottom rail, followed by the stage shown below.