Will it match the gate?

The fence is drawn from the same detail as the gate, so the picket, the rail and the finish line up.

Aluminum will not rust and suits long boundary runs. Steel takes ornamental work. The site usually decides.

My ground is not level.

Panels are racked or stepped to the grade so the top line stays deliberate instead of wandering.

Can you match a fence that is already there?

Usually. Picket profile, rail height and spacing get measured off the existing run rather than guessed from a photograph.

Fencing & Enclosures in Ocean Ridge, FL

Black slat gate set into a wall of climbing greenery at a modern entrance

Fencing & enclosures · Ocean Ridge, FL

The fence is drawn from the same detail as the gate, so the line carries.

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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.

Ocean Ridge · Palm Beach County

A gate that does not match its fence reads as two purchases. Picket spacing, rail height, cap detail and finish all come off the same drawing, which is the difference between a boundary and a collection of panels.

Aluminum does not rust, which is most of the argument on a boundary this close to the water. Steel takes the ornamental work, but the coating has to be specified for the exposure.

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.

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 Ocean Ridge 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.

Fencing — the full breakdown

Fencing · Ocean Ridge

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Black horizontal louvre slats silhouetted against water at sunset

Louvre, backlit

Aluminum picket fence running along a planted boundary — Aluminum picket run

Horizontal slat gate and fence at the side of a modern rendered house — Slat, side return

Ornamental iron fence running behind a clipped hedge under a line of palms — Iron behind hedge

Timber-look horizontal slat fence running along a path with planting behind — Horizontal timber-look

Close view of cast spear-top finials on a black ornamental iron fence — Spear-top finials

Worth knowing

Set to the grade
Matched to the gate
Aluminum or steel
Ornamental estate
Specified for salt exposure

Will it match the gate?: The fence is drawn from the same detail as the gate, so the picket, the rail and the finish line up.
Aluminum or steel?: Aluminum will not rust and suits long boundary runs. Steel takes ornamental work. The site usually decides.
My ground is not level.: Panels are racked or stepped to the grade so the top line stays deliberate instead of wandering.
Can you match a fence that is already there?: Usually. Picket profile, rail height and spacing get measured off the existing run rather than guessed from a photograph.

Same county

The towns marked On the water share the same geography as Ocean Ridge.