garden gates

Last fall I was at the local metal sup­ply shop where they were hav­ing a spe­cial on sheets of stamped stain­less steel. About that time I was think­ing of rebuild­ing the gates to the back yard. The stain­less sheets were 4x4 feet, nar­rower than the open­ing that need to be gated. But after a lit­tle work with pen­cil and paper I came up with these two designs.


What you see are the back sides, the sides that have a lit­tle more detail­ing, and the sides that I like the most. On the sec­ond gate I spaced and cut the cen­ter sup­port too short so that I had to fill in with another piece of wood. I wound up lik­ing the repaired ver­sion than the orig­i­nal draw­ing. With con­struc­tion and with pho­tog­ra­phy, I like to plan a bit ahead of time. But acci­dents will hap­pen, and they often make the out­come a lot more interesting.

Basic mate­ri­als: ribbed stain­less steel, ipe hard­wood trim, painted pressure-treated wood structure.

April 14 2008 06:24 pm | Categories: my garden | Tags: • • •

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