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Black sliding driveway gate beside a stone pillar with palms behind

The entrance · Golden Beach, FL

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

Waterfront estate seen from the water, its lawn lined with tall palms above a seawall.
The barrier islandsOcean on one side, the bay on the other, and nothing in between to break the salt.

Golden Beach · Miami-Dade 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.

Two approvals, not one

Anything structural at the property line in Miami-Dade answers to the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone standard, and that is what sets the frame and the fixings. Separately, Golden Beach runs a local review, and where a homeowners' association governs the street it generally runs one of its own. Neither is a thing to discover after fabrication.

Driveway Gates · Golden Beach

06 frames
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
Horizontal timber slat gate between brick pillars under flowering bougainvillea
Horizontal slat, brick piers

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
The ornate custom estate gate built on that driveway
Concept · sample
DesignBuilder-grade to bespoke

No sales script

  • Shop-fabricated
  • Coastal finish
  • On-site measure
  • Drawn before it's cut
  • Specified for salt exposure
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.
Will it survive this close to the water?
Salt is the design brief on the coast, so material, fixings and finish are chosen for the exposure rather than for the photograph.

Next step

The difficult entrances are the interesting ones. Tell us what makes yours in Golden Beach difficult and you will get a straight answer about what is possible.

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