The Garden Gate: In the early 90's, drawing on a combination of skills developed decades earlier through an apprenticeship with his father (a custom homebuilder)--his grandfather (a furnituremaker), and his mother (an artist/illustrator), Prowell considered the methods required to design and produce a Wood Gate of exterior joinery that would be exposed to the elements and subjected to dimensional variations with the changing seasons. Garden Gates with the appropriate joinery and integrity of his years as a furniture designer/craftsman, combined with the tutelage of a builder's knowledge for structure, stress loads, spans, site demands, and of course the confusing and inconsistant miasma of allowing wood to breath--to expand and contract without constraint.

*But there is more.  More than the structural properties.  There is a talent for design. Inherant, to some degree, but furthered under a long aprenticeship of being raised in the appropriate environment, furthered with the advantages of what could be taught, and learned, in a 5-year college curriculum.

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--There is no hardware in the Wooden Gates. There are no screws or nails or metal straps. There is only the joinery, a practiced and long developed eye for design, and a product drawn from countless prototypes that will not sag and will stand proud as a work to be appreciated for decades and decades. Prowell's Garden Gates are commissioned throughout the country, and every commission begins here, on this site

--Concurrently, Prowell's Wood Fence Design establishes the high watermark for this genre. The first-impression view of any propertyis no longer relegated to the same wood fences we have all seen. Some are of course very nicely done, by competent and qualified carpenters. But nevertheless, a continuing extension of an ongoing theme in fence design that left plenty of room for something different. Once again, as with the garden gates and all the CPW products, Prowell's Garden Fence relies on joinery, the highest grade of clear dry vertical-grain cedar, and an eye for design honed over 31 years in business--designing, developing, and crafting innovative works of art.

--The CPW Driveway Gatescan be viewed on ±Gallery #2. The designs and methods of construction are complimentary to the Wood Gate and Fence. Almost all of the Garden Gate Design options are available as a Driveway Gate.

--An extensive selection of our signatory Garden Arbors are designed as extension assemblies to your existing Gate or Pilaster openings. The Garden Arbor arrives fully assembled and simply mount onto the tops of the Gate posts. As an arbor, they accentuate masonry wall openings or find their way anywhere within the landscape as an architectural detail. And within this same gallery, the Garden Trellis, intended to mount against a side-wall or as a free-standing ornament.

-Introducing a CPW Porch Swing where we establish both a sense of workmanship and physical poetry to the featured approach of a genre too long ignored, as well as the connotations of leisure and conversation associated with this.

--We are proud to represent Rocky Mountain Hardware for our primary offerings in Bronze Gate Harware.