Wrought iron garden gates

There's no reason why functional items like gates should be boring. Use them as a focal point to your garden, to create a welcoming entrance, or to entice someone through into your special place.

It's been a while since I've blogged here as we started a Wordpress blog on our website at www.farmweld.com/blog and my little blogspot site got pushed to the backburner. That having been said I've been reluctant to close down this blog as it has it's own merits. Much has changed since the last post with the addition of a new blacksmith forge purchased from Adelaide. The blacksmithing equipment opens up the range of wrought iron we can now make in our Adelaide Hills workshop. Andrew has been very excited and passionate about his work and the additional equipment has spurred him on even more.

Iron works so well in the garden, it blends and complements stone and timber beautifully. Here are a couple smaller wrought iron gates that were made for customers:

The above wrought iron gate was for a chicken coop, and really dressed up what would otherwise have been a uninteresting corner of the garden.  The gate is now the main feature and focal point from the house.

The gate below was commissioned by a customer in Queensland and was entirely hand forged to match a piece of ironwork that was brought back from a trip to New Orleans.

Use your imagination, don't just see a gate as being something functional, but rather ask yourself how you can use it to create a focal point or an invitation into your special place.

Farmweld Website Updated

After many months of enquiries about the garden arches, steel wall trellises and other wrought iron work we've had for sale, and been advertising in the Australian Country Style and Gardening Australia magazines I finally managed to spend a bit of time putting together another page on our website where I could showcase a few photos of our garden products.  Most of these have already appeared here in this blog however it was high time that the website also featured these lovely pieces.

Our new page is still a work in progress with a wrought iron tree guard and a hose stopper (an ornamental wrought iron stake to stop the hose from running over or through the garden or vegie patch when you pull it around) are yet to be added. I've got a number of other ideas as well for future projects but as we're beginning to head into our busy spring/pre Christmas season I doubt the workshop will have much time to spare. 

Visit our new page through the Products page or go direct by clicking here.  Remember to revisit the Gates page as well, it's been revamped with many new photos of our heritage gates and wrought iron garden gates, as has the 'News' page which now showcases a collection of some of our custom pieces including wrought iron courtyard gates, heritage woven wire gates that would suit any Victorian garden and more wrought iron pieces.

I'd love to hear your comments and feedback.

Custom wrought iron design, coffee table legs

A while ago I posted a photo of a custom  designed wrought iron door panel which we made for a lovely customer who was building a house at Nairne, SA. This customer was so happy with what we created for her, she asked if we could possibly design something to support a table top that she and her husband had, and wanted to make into a coffee table. Here's what we came up with:

The design brief was that it should not only structurally support a very thick and heavy slab of timber which I believe is about 6cm thick, but that it should also complement the piece of timber. I think the design of the legs will work quite well with the heavy look of the table top. Another one I can't wait to see finished.

I have suggested that a matching chandelier might be worth looking at ... nothing like value adding.