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Custom Built · Est. 1995

Custom Driveway Gates in Dallas & North Dallas

Swing gates, rolling gates, and cantilever slide gates that match your fence line and your home, in wood and iron, hung on posts set to hold their swing for decades.

  • Matched to fence and home
  • Heavy posts, rated hardware
  • Automation available

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Design Range

Wood, iron, or both, matched to the property

Wood Gates

Warm, private, and matched board for board to your fence line so the gate reads as part of the fence instead of an add-on. Built from the same quality lumber, framed to stay square.

Iron & Combination

Wrought and rod iron through a dedicated specialty crew, standalone or framed with wood for weight and warmth together.

Swing & Rolling

Swing gates, rolling gates on a track, and cantilever slide gates that hang from their posts. Which one you get is decided by the driveway, not by preference.

The First Decision

Should I get a swing gate or a rolling gate?

Your driveway usually decides this before you do. A swing gate needs clear room to travel through its arc, level ground under that arc, and enough depth off the street that a car can wait without hanging into traffic. A rolling gate needs room to run back alongside the fence line. Look at your drive and one of the two is almost always awkward.

A swing gate suits you if

The drive is level near the opening, there is depth between the gate and the street, and nobody parks in the arc. It is the classic estate look and the one most people picture.

A rolling gate suits you if

The drive slopes, the opening sits close to the street, or the space a swing would need is space you actually use. It runs sideways along the fence line instead of out into the drive.

Matching the fence

Either one can be built from the same cedar as your fence so it blends into the run rather than announcing itself. That is the most common request we get on a rolling gate.

Planning to automate it? The opener has to be sized to whichever one you choose, and that is walked through on our automatic gate installation page. City rules on gates and fences change from town to town, and the ones we can point to in writing are listed by city on our service areas page, including the one North Dallas ordinance we found that regulates a driveway gate by its width.

A full-width cedar sliding driveway gate built by Future Fence, closed across a North Dallas driveway
Built to holdFor decades, not seasons
The First Thing Visitors Touch

Hung to hold, not to sag

A driveway gate takes more punishment than any other part of the fence line: more weight, more movement, more Texas weather. We build ours to carry that load, with posts sized for the gate, hardware rated for the swing, and framing that keeps the lines square year after year.

Want it automated? We install the openers, keypads, and remotes too, so the gate and the electric side of it work as one piece instead of being handed between two companies.

Our Work

Driveway gates we have built

A driveway gate changes how the whole property reads from the street, which is why people spend real time on this decision. These are ours, on real driveways, in the light they actually live in.

Most of these gates were built from the same cedar as the fence running away from them, which is why they read as part of the line rather than an addition to it. Where you see iron, it was either the whole gate or an inset panel framed in wood.

Common Questions

Driveway gate questions, answered

Quick answers before you request a quote.

What does a custom driveway gate cost?

Projects with us start at $2,500, and the estimate is free. What the number depends on is size, material, and whether the gate is automated. The more useful thing we can give you is how to read the quote: the gate, the posts and footings, the hardware, and any automation should each be their own line. Ours are. If a quote you are comparing is one number with no breakdown, ask for the breakdown before you compare it to anything.

Does a rolling gate need a slab, and what happens in our clay?

A gate that rolls on the ground needs something solid under it, because the ground here moves. In Carrollton and Richardson the soil is Houston Black clay, roughly 55 percent clay in the top six inches and among the most shrink-swell reactive soils in the country, per the USDA soil survey. That is not true of every city we build in, Lewisville sits on far less reactive ground, so we look at your address rather than quoting a rule. There are two honest answers on a rolling gate: give the track a proper base, or build a cantilever slide gate that hangs from its posts and never touches the ground at all. We build both, and we will tell you on site which one your driveway is asking for.

One more thing, since nobody in this market says it out loud. Texas does not issue a state license for fence contractors. Any fence company here can print the word licensed on a truck, and most of the time it means a city registration or it means nothing at all. We would rather tell you that than let the word do work it has not earned. Judge us on the fence lines standing in your neighborhood.

Ready When You Are

Design the gate your driveway deserves

Tell us about the opening and the look you want. We will quote it clean.