Custom Gate Designer & Design Consultation

The fastest way to design a bad gate is to start drawing immediately. We spend the first conversation on your architecture, your daily routine, your security concerns, your taste, and your budget. We ask how you actually use the driveway — who comes and goes, when, and how often. We ask what you don't like about your current entry.

We ask about other parts of the home that feel right to you, because the gate has to live next to all of them. Only after that conversation do we start sketching. The result is a design that fits the project on day one, not a design we have to rework three rounds in because we missed something fundamental.

Most clients have never read a gate elevation drawing — and trying to imagine a gate from a 2D line drawing is genuinely hard. So we render every proposed gate as a photoreal 3D composite against a photograph of your actual driveway, in light and shadow that match your home's orientation and time of day. You see the gate at home before we cut any wood.

You see how it reads from the street, from the porch, from the car at the driveway approach. Decisions that would otherwise be theoretical (slat spacing, post height, finish tone) become obvious.

Engraved house numbers, family monograms, custom inlay patterns, decorative metalwork cutouts — anything we draw, we can cut on our CNC at production tolerances. The design service is where those details get planned.

We work in Vectric Aspire and Fusion 360, output toolpaths that match our shop's specific bits and feeds, and dry-fit every CNC element on a scrap board before committing the final material. The result is the kind of detail that makes a gate feel one-of-one — and that's almost impossible to retrofit after fabrication starts.

Many of our larger Bay Area projects arrive through architects (Walker Warner, Feldman, Geremia), landscape designers, or contractors managing a whole-home build. We're built to work that way.

We deliver drawings in the formats your team uses (PDF, DWG, Revit families on request), attend design meetings remotely or on-site, and prepare design-review submission packages for jurisdictions that require them. Coordinating early means the gate ships ready to install on the day the rest of the project is ready for it.