Decorative gates - home entrance decoration

Decorative gate is not just a hole in the fence through which people pass. This product, it turns out, has its own history. There is a considerable number of poems in which the gate is their important element.

The gate in many cases began to wear a decorative load. Designers, architects, lovers of tinkering with their own hands, have found a fertile field for work. Naturally, the wooden gate is associated with rural landscapes. Wood is the most suitable material for making wickets.

Types of wood for gates

Attention. In order for the gate to become a decoration of the entrance, and not a daily irritant, it is necessary to take a responsible approach to its construction. First of all, this is the material for the gate.

Softwood

Softwood древесины и их характеристики:

• Pine - brownish-red wood with resin courses, easy to process, used in the manufacture of joinery, requires removal of resin
• Ale - light brown wood with low resinous content, does not crack, is harder to process than pine
• Larch - surpasses conifers in all characteristics, solid, waterproof, with a beautiful textural pattern
• Cedar - yellowish-white, with a pink tint, resistant to rotting, easily cut and processed, with a beautiful textural pattern
• Пихта - by its properties similar to spruce, but cracks

Hardwood and their characteristics

So:

• Birch tree - wood with a yellowish-red shade, hard, well processed, jarred when dried, but does not crack
• Oak - the best wood among hardwoods of a yellowish-brown color. Hard, well processed, polished and polished, prone to cracking. The texture is large, beautiful, easily painted and bleached with various stains.
• Beck - heavy, solid, durable wood. The color is light brown with a reddish - yellow shade. Cut badly, prone to cracking
• Grab - one of the hardest hardwoods, difficult to work, jarred and cracked during drying
• Ash - reminds oak wood, but is lighter, with a beautiful texture. Durable, prone to cracking, well polished, polished, painted

In addition to the above-mentioned hardwoods, others may be used.

What wooden gates are

There are:

• Deaf wickets
• Through gates
• Gates with arches
• Wickets with forging elements
• Single leaf gates
• Double-wing gates
• Wickets in a wooden fence
• Gates in the stone fence

Very decorative gates in combination with climbing plants. This is how a wooden gate with an arch in a wooden fence looks like. In this gate, the arch plays the role of pergolas for climbing roses.

But the "deaf" wooden gate with a rectangular arch. A bright dark cherry stain on a white background looks original and attracts the eyes of passersby.

Original garden through lattice gate. In this gate curvilinear forms are realized. Such beautiful wooden wickets can be made independently (see How to make a wicket for the fence itself).

What is the gate without a gate?

Wooden decorative gates and gates in the old days were whole architectural ensembles. In the old days, gates and wickets played a utilitarian role: to let in or not to let in. The gates were made with high roofs so that a horseman could pass through them to the lady of the heart. Naturally, either a Cossack or a hussar ...

Design features of the gate

The gates are fixed on forged hinges (see. Types of door hinges: consider in detail), which are decorated with various decorative elements. Hinges for easy opening of the gate, made on thrust bearings.

Due to the fact that the gate is much larger than the gate in size, the load on the structural elements of the gate is greater. Therefore, the gate is made massive with special hacks. In addition, the gates are reinforced with forged, decorative linings.

Here is how wooden wooden gates with wrought iron elements look like.

The decorative gate and the lattice gates allow you to partially see the area around the house. In this case, in addition to the lattice design of the gate and gates, decorative carved plates were used to enhance the decorative effect.

Forged items for gates and gates

For decorating and strengthening the construction of wooden gates and gates, forged elements are used:

• Hinges on thrust ball bearings (Fig. 1)
• Forged handles (fig. 2)
• Overhead items (Fig. 3)
• Forged bolts (Fig. 4) or you can install a lock
• Stukalov (Fig. 5)
• Forged hinges for gates (Fig. 6)

And there are a large number of different curls, leaves, flowers and other metal decorations. With wrought iron elements of the gate as the decor will be more decorative. Accessories for wickets and gates should be found in hardware stores or garden centers, building supermarkets.

Small mechanization and automation for wickets

• Automatic latch - for automatic closing of the gate
• Spring for closing the gate
• Metal pin for fixing the gate, is inserted into the recess in the ground
• The limiter - the same pin driven into the ground, does not allow the gate to open too wide
• Gate lock to hold the gate in a certain position. Mounted on the ground
• Fixing hook for fixing the gate. Fastened with one side to the pole and the other side to the plate on the gate

Build yourself

The problem of decorative gate with his own hands or not? Is it possible for a person who has never professionally engaged in carpentry to make a wicket himself? And the more a decorative gate.

The case is difficult, but you can try. For this you need:

• Choose a good wicket design
• Pick up materials
• Make drawings and specification of necessary parts
• Purchase the minimum required tools
• To proclaim to everyone that you make it. This is for cutting the paths to retreat.
• Purchase the minimum required tools

Minimum number of tools:

• Hacksaw or electric saw with fine teeth
• Manual or electric drill with drills of different diameters
• Stuslo (very important tool), is used for cuts blanks at different angles
• Chisel
• Hammer
• Electric fretsaw (for curvilinear shapes)
• Shlifshkurki various rooms for wood. Not to be confused with metal grinders!
• Glue (recommend PVA)
• Nails, screws, metal plates, bolts, ties
• Square
• Malka (important tool)

This list of tools is needed to collect the construction of the gate. All other work must be done in the carpentry workshop, from dry material!

Attention. To make a good gate without a vertically milling and reysmusnogo machine is unrealistic.

But "very important tool" for the assembly of the gate.

Или вот более совершенное stuslo вместе с пилой. В таком стусле можно пилить под различными углами. Цифры с данными углов видны на лимбе.

And here is another "important tool" - Malka. This is a sliding angle for removing and accurately transfer angles from one part to another. Selection of the best materials for decorative wooden wickets.

Wood and varnish:

• Larch среди хвойных пород
• Hardwood Oak
• Varnish: yacht alkyd - urethane