It is rare that anyone passes through a door that is less than 32" width. Only closet doors and pantry doors meet this criteria, and as a result, creating a gate at such a narrow opening will find your visitors passing through with shoulders turned--an unaware reaction to having so seldom confronted any openings or doorways less than 32".

For this reason, and because many landscaped walkways and paths default to 60" width, we offer this page to illustrate a few options available beyond that of a double gate with two equal 30" single gates and folks shuffling along sideways as if they were shadows.

Option B: Double Off-Set Gates.

Double gates have the inarguable advantage of a greater opening available, when needed. Such as bringing out the trash or driving the mower from the back to the front yard. But for the vast majority of time, passage through double gates occurs through only one of the two double gates. The right gate--if approaching from the street, simply because most of us are right-handed and the ergonomics works better when reaching with our right hand for the latch on the left side of the gate-- or residential door.

If only one gate is negotiated 95% of the time, then the principle of an off-set makes sense. If the overall opening is, say, 60" +_, the left , or fixed gate might be at 18" width and the right, operable gate at a comfortable 42:.

And yet by the nature of the division, many of the 100+ gate designs by Prowell require special consideration when confronted with an off-set option. Certain design details and grids, etc simply lend themselves to the off-set better than others.