The Custom entry of your dreams is here.

Creating an amazing entry comes down to a budget.  A simple ornamental gate with an operator and a couple things to dress it up can be done for less than $10,000.  An entry with a 1/1 gate, water features and a wow factor that's off the charts is north of 50K..........and there is a lot in between.  

The sales pitch on an off the charts entry is the following:  A mid level pool you use 100 days a year that makes you go “muh” comes w a 120K plus price tag.  This comes with a show-off factor of friends and family. You get to use an off the charts entry 365 days a year.  As opposed to a “muh” investment you will hear things like beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, love it and where did you get it?  

Your entry will become a landmark for people to find your house and the neighbors will use it to help their friends find their house.  “were the green farm gate three houses down from the entry w the waterfalls coming out of  it's walls.  The show-off factor is friends, family and everyone else that drives by thinking “who the h*** lives there.........
 

This is where we go TMI so get a Red Bull and start planning.  We can assist, elaborate and make recommendations on the information below.  On top of everything else, all the parts and pieces of your entry need to scale to each other or intentionally not scale for effect.  This is never designed to be a gotcha process and you call always call timeout if you need to sleep on a decision or ask your friends what they think.  The goal of stepping through all this is a pre-designed uneventful endgame where you're happy with every choice and there are no do overs.  Final decisions are always left to the property owner.

Will the entry run parallel to the property line or will it have an angular inset “wings”.   

Functionally, a determination needs to be made if the gate will be a single swing gate, double swing gate, roll on a track or be a cantilever rolling gate.  

Our vote for most elegant and ascetically pleasing is a double swing gate design.

The design of the gate itself can be chosen from one of our ornamental “stock” gates or it can be a 1/1 custom.   

Black is prevalent followed by white.  Bronze is “in” right now.  Whatever the choice, it's a good idea to choose a color that will compliment the stone/stucco color of any walls or columns.

Texas Stars, initials, ranch brands, sports numbers, names, symbols, dogs, cats, wildlife, etc inset on your gate (s).  Name and/or address plaque set into the stone wall or column.  Whatever you're a fan of or whatever information you would like to display we can likely incorporate it into your design.

Bordering each side of the gate will typically be architectural size pipe, stone/stucco columns, stone/stucco walls or iron “wings”.  

There are many types of stone and shades of stone within each type.  Lime Stone, Field Stone, Ledge Stone, Stack Stone, Hackett Stone, and Oklahoma Stone are a few.  Stucco is stucco but it does need to be painted a color that compliments the gate.

Column lighting, wall lighting, pond Lighting (more on that later) and landscape lighting.  Small, Large or Over-sized.  Installing electrical conduit and roughing in the electrical while the walls are being built is always easier, cheaper and safer than stuffing unprotected electrical wire in stone after the fact.

Lions, tigers, bears, deer, gargoyles, religious, care bears, stallions, warriors etc.  These are usually used as column toppers.  Google what you're considering and the internet will deliver options. 

This can be as simple as a one-off fountain or two, wall fountains, themed fountains (like wine barrels) or spillways coming out of the walls.  Fountains require water and power so planning up front for the electrical and plumbing is helpful.  Fountains also come with more lighting to think about.

Dressing up an entry with flowers and bushes is a common practice.  Obviously, these can go in the ground but some elect for a defined space for their flora and protection from their local fauna.

Grandpa Joe's Plow etc........we can incorporate almost anything your better half will allow. 

A pre-designed place for the U.S. Flag, Texas Flag, Political Flags, Alma Matter Flags, Local High School Flags etc.

Small dogs need puppy guards to prevent them from running through gates.  It's a  killjoy the day your entry goes live and your 9 lb family member strolls right through the bars to freedom, cars, trucks and buses.  There is always a workaround but puppy guards look better when they are incorporated into the original design.