New Gate

The chickens like to come up on the deck so we had been keeping a baby gate at the bottom of the stairs to keep them out. It looked really tacky. A friend of ours at work is a metal artist so we commissioned him to make something we could use as a gate. This is what he came up with.

The base is a 1940's saw blade. He then used a variety of materials to decorate it. If you look closely there is a chicken, an abstract sun and a flower.  The flower is made of silverware handles. The center of the sun is an old ladle. Then he cut out the chicken from stainless steel and copper. Then it was up to Pat and I to incorporate it into a gate. It  is heavy as we wanted to "countersink" the gate so no one got hurt on the sharp edges; so it is actually 2 layers of wood.  We love it.