{"id":661,"date":"2012-12-27T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattlehomestead.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2020-10-12T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T23:48:18","slug":"the-sunburst-front-gate-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kanejamison.com\/the-sunburst-front-gate-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunburst Front Gate Design"},"content":{"rendered":"
It might seem that I’m getting a bit ahead of myself, talking about the front gate while still awhile away from completing the wall that sits next to the gate.<\/p>\n
But, I was stuck with inspiration over Thanksgiving while visiting our family in Boulder, CO. I came across an incredibly cool footbridge in the town of Nederland, CO, and immediately started taking pictures and sketching later that day.<\/p>\n
Here’s what the bridge looked like:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Isn’t that woodworking beautiful?<\/p>\n So, later that day, I did a preliminary sketch on what a front gate version of this might look like:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That drawing still needs some tweaks for certain, but overall I was really happy with the concept.<\/p>\n I posted the draft to our Facebook page<\/a> to get some feedback, and lo and behold, I woke up the next morning with an email in my inbox from Louis-Charles Pilon, one of Seattle Homestead’s facebook page fans.<\/p>\n Louis-Charles is a landscape architect at Topia<\/a>\u00a0(facebook page<\/a>) in Montreal, Quebec, and took some of his time over the weekend to create a version of my sketch in AutoCAD, complete with some of his own excellent improvements:<\/p>\n <\/a>My favorite improvement by Louis-Charles is the rounded edge applied to the two right angle brackets supporting the beam at the top.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, building a variation on this front gate model is in the work plans for 2013<\/a>. Last year when we had our brick patio and walkway installed, I knew we were going to be installing a gate or arbor of some sort. I also knew it was going to have 4×4 posts that were 8 feet tall, so it needed to be very sturdy.<\/p>\n So, we installed CB44 brackets (like the ones on the right) into concrete posts that went 3 feet deep. The picture below shows where the 4 posts are located (the brackets are covered by black plastic planters for safety).<\/p>\n