How does it hold up here?

Salt and sun are the design brief in South Florida, so material and finish are specified for the coast.

Can I see it before it's built?

Yes. It gets drawn onto a photograph of your entrance, and the changes happen there rather than in the shop.

What about the fence either side of it?

Drawn at the same time. A gate that does not agree with its fence reads as two separate purchases from the road.

Not necessarily. Posts, piers and rendered pillars are three different structures, and the leaf and the ground decide which one is right.

Driveway Gate Design & Installation in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Horizontal timber slat gate between brick pillars under flowering bougainvillea

The entrance · Fort Lauderdale, FL

Drawn, fabricated and hung so the entrance reads as one piece of work.

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Aerial view of a coastal residential street, its rear gardens enclosed by hedging and fencing. — The coastal strip — The barrier island and the streets immediately behind it, from the county line up to the Hillsboro Inlet.

Fort Lauderdale · Broward County

A gate is the only part of a property everyone sees and nobody walks past quickly. Piers, gate, fence line and the light on it either belong to each other or obviously do not, so they get drawn together rather than bought separately.

Close to open water the gate lives in salt air, so material and coating get specified before styling does — aluminum, or steel that is coated for the exposure rather than for the showroom.

Spray carries further inland than people expect, which is why a finish specified here is not the one specified well away from the water.

Also inside the HVHZ

Broward falls inside the same High-Velocity Hurricane Zone as Miami-Dade, so the wind rating carries across the county line unchanged. What does not carry across is the paperwork: permitting is administered locally, and the sensible order is to ask what Fort Lauderdale expects before the steel is ordered rather than after.

Driveway Gates — the full breakdown

Driveway Gates · Fort Lauderdale

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Black sliding driveway gate beside a stone pillar with palms behind

Slide, single leaf

Wide driveway gate and railing photographed at dusk from the street — Dusk, from the street

Lit driveway gate at night with uplit palms behind it — After dark

Ornate arched iron double gate between rendered pillars at an estate entrance — Ornate double swing

Sun setting through the vertical slats of a dark metal gate — Vertical slat, low sun

Black swing gate open onto a paver driveway with a lawn either side — Swing pair on pavers

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

Drag the divider to see the change. Where a frame is marked Concept it illustrates the starting point rather than photographs it.

Illustration of a plain builder-grade gate shown on the same driveway — DesignBuilder-grade to bespoke

The ornate custom estate gate built on that driveway — DesignBuilder-grade to bespoke

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Coastal finish
On-site measure
Drawn before it's cut
Shop-fabricated
Specified for salt exposure

How does it hold up here?: Salt and sun are the design brief in South Florida, so material and finish are specified for the coast.
Can I see it before it's built?: Yes. It gets drawn onto a photograph of your entrance, and the changes happen there rather than in the shop.
What about the fence either side of it?: Drawn at the same time. A gate that does not agree with its fence reads as two separate purchases from the road.
Do I need pillars?: Not necessarily. Posts, piers and rendered pillars are three different structures, and the leaf and the ground decide which one is right.

Same county

The towns marked The coastal strip share the same geography as Fort Lauderdale.