July 3, 2014
Our privacy gate with rope lights mounted on the gate
We have a long private drive nearly a mile long that winds along the mountain side to our home. Our home is at the very end of the private drive. About 2000 feet before our home we installed a privacy gate made from wrought iron. Our gate is a swing gate which I have installed an automatic gate opener 🙂 It opens using a remote control, who doesn’t like remote controls? 🙂
We really didn’t want a gate but until we put up the gate we had a lot of unwanted visitors driving right up to our house all hours of the day and night. People think that our private drive will take them over the mountain even though there are two Dead End signs and no trespassing signs too! I mounted rope lights that is on a timer to light the gate to prevent people from running into the gate at night.
This is the view just past our gate heading to our home! What you can’t see is all the security cameras and the underground sensor for the drive way!
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These are gorgeous gates. You certainly have got the ” no unwanted visitors” sorted out well. I am sure it is a lovely drive up to your home.
Hi Margaret, thank you. We really didn’t want a gate but all the trespassers made us do it! 🙂 Have a great 4th of July!!
Beautiful! Our old house had a very long driveway and I know what you mean by people coming by ‘just to see the view’. I’d say it’s a private drive and they’d stop in the middle of the driveway and get out and look out over the town. It was weird. We never put up gates but we thought about it.
Yep, it’s crazy. We have no trespassing signs and they still keep driving to see where the road takes them. What caused us to put up the gate was we have a visitor about 10:30 one night and the guy came all the way tot he house and got out. I walked outside and told him to leave that this was private property and did he not see the No trespassing signs and he said yes but he didn’t care. After 10 minutes what seemed like forever, I had my phone in hand and started to call the police, plus I showed my gun to get him to leave. It really made my wife nervous. We didn’t want a gate but we had too 🙂 I hope you have a great weekend! We will be celebrating the 4th of July 🙂
Your gate is lovely and a great solution to the unexpected sightseers.
thank you!! 🙂
you have a marvelous driveway! and great to have the gate! ours is only 1/4 mile long, but i keep the gate at the entrance locked about 99% of the time to keep folks out. they tend to come in to ‘sell’ stuff, look around, whatever…
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What a beautiful gate and an inviting lane. Your woodwork is gorgeous!
thank you! I am glad you visited my site, love your fence pictures, especially the rock walls! 🙂
Impressively beautiful!
Hi Karen, thank you!
its beautiful. don’t blame you one bit for installing it.
we too have a similar gate, ours is to keep the neighbors escaping bulls out of our yard day and night—so far, so good 🙂
oh gosh, the first thing I thought of was the bulls eating your garden!! 🙂
Sometimes I wish we had such a long private drive without people turning in our driveway or traffic noise from the main road…. but we have a few good neighbours as compensation! That sounds like a great system you have installed.
good evening Cathy! I know what you mean about the turning around and the traffic noise, that is why we moved where we are now. I never dreamed that we would have trespassers driving our private drive, especially all the way to our home, very annoying. I am glad you have nice neighbors, that really makes a big difference. 🙂
Tasteful and I can understand why you got a gate! It’s very nice.
thank you Andre!
A beautiful gate! I can’t remember do you get any snow??? In the North we typically like short drive ways so less snow to clear. 🙂 Looks like your house is set in a beautiful location!
Yes we get snow and sometimes too much of it. Our private road to our house is nearly impassable when it snows, curves, hills and the chance to run or slide off the mountain. I usually leave my vehicle about a mile from the house incase we need to get out.
I can imagine that would be fairly rugged during a winter storm!