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.

Ours is a shared entry, not a driveway.

Different machine. It gets specified on cycles a day and on who needs to get through it, not on the gate's weight alone.

Who is responsible for the entry?

Usually the association rather than any one resident, which changes who we talk to and who signs the work off.

Driveway Gate Installation in Margate, FL

Black swing gate open onto a paver driveway with a lawn either side

Driveway gates · Margate, FL

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

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Timber-and-steel entry gate framed by dense climbing greenery. — The north-west communities — Master-planned since the seventies, which means shared entries far more often than private ones.

Margate · Broward 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.

Frontages inside a planned community tend to repeat, and where an association governs the street its architectural guidelines usually decide the envelope the gate has to sit inside.

Planned communities repeat — the same frontage width, the same setback, and often the same entry problem several hundred times over.

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Broward is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the wind rating is settled by code rather than by preference. What is not settled by code is the local review — Margate handles that itself, and starting it early is the cheapest decision on the whole project.

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Driveway Gates · Margate

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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 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

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

Drawn before it's cut
Shop-fabricated
Coastal finish
On-site measure
Shared-entry duty cycle

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.
Ours is a shared entry, not a driveway.: Different machine. It gets specified on cycles a day and on who needs to get through it, not on the gate's weight alone.
Who is responsible for the entry?: Usually the association rather than any one resident, which changes who we talk to and who signs the work off.

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The towns marked The north-west communities share the same geography as Margate.