If you have spent time, effort and money on your garden you will probably want to choose a bespoke wooden gate to finish the job off properly. As with any choice you had to make when planning and designing your garden you also have to make sure you think about your bespoke wooden gate and how to make the most of it and the way it fits into your garden.



Deciding on the design is one of the most obvious decisions you will have to make when having a bespoke wooden gate made. You probably have an idea of how you would like your bespoke gate to look but getting this thought onto paper or more importantly onto the designer's blueprint can be a little tricky to say the least.

If you are doing the design yourself you must make sure that you have properly labelled your drawing of the design of wooden gate so that the craftsman has no doubt in his mind exactly how you want the bespoke gate making. To get the design perfect you will need to draw the diagram to scale and put the appropriate sizes next to each part of the wooden gate.

If a specialist is going to design your garden gate for you then it will probably be wise for you to give then some design guidelines to follow such as what era you would like it styled on e.g. Georgian, Victorian, modern, contemporary etc. You will also want to let them know what colour you want the wooden gate to be when finished as any designer will tell you colour has a big bearing on how any work of art looks in the end.

Before you get cracking with the design process of your bespoke wooden gate you will need to have a clear idea of what constraints you have. For example if you have a wall or wooden fence in place already you will need to know the size of the gap that the bespoke wooden gate will be fitting into to. Also you will need to decide as to whether your wooden gate will be fixed to your garden wall or fence or if you are going to have gate posts fitting into the ground for the wooden gate to hang on. Another important constraint is cost. If you are on a tight budget you do not want an extremely intricate design that will take a joiner half a life time to carve out.

An important part of a bespoke wooden garden gate that often gets forgotten is the hinges and latch. If these are just stuck on as an after thought they could well ruin the design of your bespoke garden gate. Try to even your budget out so that you don't spend everything on your wooden gate and then stick some cheap and nasty hinges and a latch on. For one they will look out of place and for another they will wear out a lot quicker and risk damage to the gate.

When you have your bespoke wooden gate sitting pretty in your garden all the planning will most definitely be worth it.