Will it actually fit my driveway?

We measure on site and draw the gate on your entrance before anything is cut.

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.

Driveway Gate Installation in South Miami, FL

Lit driveway gate at night with uplit palms behind it

Driveway gates · South Miami, FL

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

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Technician working at the control post of a tall ornamental iron gate in front of a palm-lined house. — The estate belt — Deeper setbacks and mature canopy south-west of the city — the openings with room for a two-leaf gate.

South Miami · 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.

Deeper setbacks are what make a two-leaf ornamental pair worth fabricating at all: there is room for the leaves to open into the property instead of out over the footpath.

Deeper setbacks change the brief entirely: there is room to make an entrance a piece of architecture rather than a barrier.

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, South Miami 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 — 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

Driveway Gates · South Miami

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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

Worth knowing

Drawn before it's cut
Shop-fabricated
Coastal finish
On-site measure
Two-leaf openings

Will it actually fit my driveway?: We measure on site and draw the gate on your entrance before anything is cut.
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.