A faux gate enhances the ambiance of my client’s garden to attract birds and butterflies and enjoy the conservation area view.

Create A Gate Faux Every Garden!

An interesting way to add an entrance (or an exit) to your garden is to install a faux gate. Even if you don’t have a fence, a faux gate will create the illusion of an entrance. Depending on your garden theme, it can be an old-fashioned crickety wooden gate created by tying branches together, or vintage rusty (safely sealed) metal gate, or a modern frosted glass panel between two columns.

Your gate can show where to walk in your garden. It can be at the end of your journey to a garden bench or meditation area. They can be placed at the beginning of the walkway, or midway along the path to indicate entering the next outdoor room, or at the end of the garden to allow visitors to leave with flair. Faux gates are easy to install between two complementary posts. Match the material of the gate. Make sure the posts are stable by using concrete bases in the ground or metal rods to secure them. Do not let them wobble!

Where can you find a faux gate? You can check out antique shops, Etsy, Facebook sales, garage sales, thrift stores, and vintage furniture stores. Or make your own from all the wood you collect on a hike during your vacation.

Instead of placing a beautiful antique gate on a wall, or featured as a piece of art, make them a purposeful piece of art, “thriller”, or just whimsy, just so you have a faux gate. Where would it lead you?