With this Bel Air property, we have incorporated a Post Wrap similar to style #1.

<Photos courtesy of Alice Patterson Photography>

The existing post stucco ends at the top of the Wrap, or Column. As with most all Gate Columns, it arrived as a three-sided unit, slipping around the existing post and the fourth side secured in place as a final, easy step.

A common, and forgivable, weakness is to accentuate the gates with an oil stain. In this application, however, we might best consider our gate assembly in a more modest role by giving it a color that is more in keeping with the precedent of the house. We're after the overall affect, the sum of the various contributions to a property preferably not allowed to upstage the balance of the whole. Perhaps the olive green we see within the window sashes and bay roofline would be a better color match.