Articles tagged with: Victoria

Is a Wrought Iron Garden Arch Right for Your Garden?

Custom garden arch

When considering your garden arch design consider not just beauty, but sturdiness. If you want to plant a climber and like the idea of a wrought iron arch, it might be worth having a good think about what you really need. A garden arch should be complementary to it’s environment. Most of all though, remember it’s your plant that needs to be showcased, with the arch giving it good support. So is it worth spending money on fancy ornamental ironwork, or is it a waste of money if it’s going to be hidden under foliage?

Daylesford Gate – New Heritage Farm Gate

Image of heritage farm gate modeled on Daylesford's Wombat Park entrance gate

Till recently, the Daylesford gate has only been available as a custom designed farm gate. Due to it’s popularity, we have decided to include it as a standard design under the bar gates collection, in the heritage style country gates range. Modeled on the entrance gate to the historic ‘Wombat Park Estate’, in Daylesford, Victoria the gate is:

Daylesford Heritage Gate

Daylesford gate

Quite often we’re asked if we can replicate an old heritage gate that someone’s seen and fallen in love with. The usual scenario is that you’ve got an older property which has lost the original gates but you haven’t been able to buy an old gate from anywhere. You really need something ‘old’ to suit. The one gate we’ve been asked about the most is the one shown in the Vic Tourism ad for Daylesford and Hepburn Springs. This gate graces the driveway entrance to the historic Wombat Park Homestead with it’s magnificent gardens.

Maddison entrance gate

Maddison heritage style country entrance gate

When my wife and I decided that we wanted a more impressive entrance way to our property, we scoured the internet and other media for a good-looking, quality, yet reasonably-priced gate.  We visited factories and outlets, and examined websites over many months but nothing met our criteria.  We then found  an advertisement for Farmweld gates and their product appeared to fit the bill – attractiveness and affordability.  And it has proven to be the case.  We are delighted with

Heritage wrought iron estate gates

Wrought iron country estate gates needn't be expensive. Sometimes simple wrought iron designs are better than something over complicated.

What do you do when you need a formal entrance to a property with Australian Colonial architecture but it needs to work with French Provincial interior decorating … go wrought iron of course. The wrought iron entrance gate to this NSW property was made keeping in mind both styles and the owner couldn’t be happier.

The Brief: The house on this property was built in 1898 but it has been renovated with a French Provincial interior. The house is