This deals specifically with garden gate design ideas, or more specifically designing your own garden gate. Its not difficult but there is quite a bit of reading to do. As i am attempting to teach years worth of gate design experience in a single web page. Its likely best viewed on a full size screen rather than a mobile device. All images should expand to full size when clicked upon. Making it easier to see some of the smaller details of the design.
There are 3 parts which effectively make a gate design. The top of the gate or at least the decoration on the top of the gate. The frame style, not every gate is just a rectangular frame. The internal design pattern in the gate. Its all based on the idea of taking a basic size gate, knowing the price and adding everything else as “optional” extras
The top.
There are a few choices here. All drawings are based on a gate frame to fit a 900mm wide gap, with no design detail in the upright bars.
This is a plain frame with nothing on top, perfectly acceptable if you like things simple. As there is nothing there it has zero additional cost.
A simple pair of scrolls placed centre on the top of the gate. Nothing fancy or expensive adds around £6 to the cost.
A scroll top but with a ring in the centre. A small difference from the previous top design but enough to change it. Adds about £8 to a basic gate
Decorative railing heads set above each vertical bar. There is a wide selection of raling head choices. Adds around £1.50 per railing head, depending on rail head choice.
The same as the previous design with one minor exception. The hanging and closing bars extend beyond the frame to the same height as the railing heads.
Extended frame here but with scrolls connected to outer edge rather than centre. Adds £6 to cost
Arch with scroll effect, this adds quite a bit of height to any gate. As drawn is about 300mm high. Adds £35 to base cost
Full width arch. what ever the width of the gate adds half that to the height. On a 900wide gap the gate frame is about 800mm, so adds 400mm in height as is a true half ring. Adds £40 to base cost
The rail heads are priced per rail head, simply because depending on the width of the gate will determine how many upright bars there are. Also with railing heads because we offer a choice, they vary in price. £1.50 each is a good ball park figure.
As you can see all the above are just a rectangular frame, with possible top designs. Each top design creates a different look to the gate. But the frame doesn’t have to be a plain rectangle. There are other choices, but certain top designs are not compatible with some of the other frame designs.
Frame design.
So here we are talking about that basic rectangular frame The first example in our top design series.
For continuity we shall place this here. The basic rectangular frame used in so many gate designs on the internet.
The frame has a small arch shape to it. Draw back to this top is that it limits the top design to either plain as it is, or one of the rail head type designs. Adds £20 to base cost
If you take that same top shape and weld it on upside down, you create a dip. This has the same limitation as the arch frame. Adds £20 to base cost
Here 2 extra horizontal bars are welded in the frame to create a gap. This gives a more compact space in the centre but now gives a place to add an additional element of design in. Adds £30 to base cost
Instead of two gaps only 1 gap to fill in at the bottom. Adds £15 to base cost
Just the previous frame flipped over vertically to create the gap at the top.
If your preference is to one of the above 3 frame designs, you have now created a 4th element to the design, the gap. so how do you fill the gap to create a design.
A pair of scrolls to infill the gap
A mix of rings and bars
C scrolls and bars.
A point to note on double frame gates, you are reducing the size of the upright bars. To keep a gate at 3ft tall, this can mean that the uprights are reduced to a short as 500mm tall. which can cause issues attempting to fit in some of the follow bar designs.
So now we finally get to the infill.
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