Swing or slide — which one?

Slope, curb space and where you park decide it. We tell you what the driveway allows.

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.

Driveway Gate Installation in Key Biscayne, FL

Wide driveway gate and railing photographed at dusk from the street

Driveway gates · Key Biscayne, FL

Measured on site and drawn on your entrance before anything is cut.

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Driveway Gates · Key Biscayne

06 frames

Horizontal timber slat gate between brick pillars under flowering bougainvillea

Horizontal slat, brick piers

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

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

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

Key Biscayne · Miami-Dade County

The first question is never the style, it is the opening. Width, slope, where the cars stop and how much room the leaves have to move through decide what can be built, and all four get measured rather than assumed.

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.

Everything within a few blocks of open water runs on the same clock: salt reaches fixings, hinges and enclosures whether or not the house faces the ocean.

Inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone

Miami-Dade sits inside the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the strictest wind-load regime in the state, so the rating on posts, panels and hardware is not a nice-to-have here. Permits on top of that are issued locally — by the municipality or by the county — so what Key Biscayne wants to see on paper is worth confirming before anything is cut.

Driveway Gates — the full breakdown

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

Worth knowing

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

Swing or slide — which one?: Slope, curb space and where you park decide it. We tell you what the driveway allows.
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.