I’m totally in love with my new garden gate! I’ve thought it would be so cool to have this section of the yard gated off and plant a garden there. I also thought it would help keep Andrew out of the orange tree with its thorns and keep him in the line of sight while we sat on the patio. The other side yard got fenced off when we finished the replacing the fence last March. However, Jack wasn’t as excited as I was when I asked him to do this “quick” project. I then quickly realized my little project wasn’t going to be so easy or cheap as I originally thought. Jack being the ever perfectionist and doing it right mortality made me realizes it was going to be a lot more work than first anticipated. I just thought we would buy some premade fence panels, add a couple of wooden posts and be done. Nope, but I am glad we took the time to do it right. We first purchased two fence panels that were eight feet long each, then measured out the post locations. Jack was wanting to rent an auger as we had done in the past, but I decided to at least see what I could do with the post shovel. Much to my surprise, I was quickly able to dig three out of the four holes (the fourth one we needed to wait on). Jack was shocked to see that they were done and was able to cut the metal posts and set them in concrete that night. The next day we anchored the panels to the post and I dug up the fourth post to finish off the main portion of the fence. Jack built the gate by using part of one of the premade panels and framed it with 2 x 2 for additional support. We chose black hardware for the latches, handle and hinges. To finish off the new beautiful garden gate we bought an arbor for the entrance and much to my dismay I had to dig two more holes to set the arbor into place. Jack attached the other side of the arbor to the metal posts.
The gate is so pretty and I can’t wait to have a garden inside of it one day!
The gate is so pretty and I can’t wait to have a garden inside of it one day!
