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.

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.

Does the finish need redoing eventually?

Coatings on the water have a working life. Knowing that at the start is better than discovering it, and it is part of what the material choice trades off.

Driveway Gates in Jupiter Inlet Colony, FL

Lit driveway gate at night with uplit palms behind it

Swing, slide, cantilever · Jupiter Inlet Colony, FL

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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

Black sliding driveway gate beside a stone pillar with palms behind — Slide, single leaf

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

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

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

Ornamental iron gate lit from below at night, palms above it against a dark sky. — On the water — Barrier-island and inlet addresses, most of them with a town or association design guideline of their own.

Jupiter Inlet Colony · Palm Beach County

A swing pair needs an arc. A slide needs a run alongside the opening. A cantilever needs neither but wants a counterbalance behind the post. Which of the three your driveway allows is a geometry question with one right answer, and it is worth settling early.

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.

Wind exposure on the water is not only a number in a code table — it is what actually loads a gate leaf, every afternoon.

Different county, different approval route

Because Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the approvals a Miami-Dade contractor quotes from memory are the wrong ones here. What Jupiter Inlet Colony actually requires is set locally, and where a town or an association runs its own design guidelines those shape the finish as much as the code shapes the frame.

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

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.
Does the finish need redoing eventually?: Coatings on the water have a working life. Knowing that at the start is better than discovering it, and it is part of what the material choice trades off.

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