So I made a thing. Well, strictly speaking I designed a thing that then got made by someone else. We’d been looking for a new gate for some time, but never really found something we liked. I ended up drawing something in AutoCAD (of course) – taking inspiration from a number of images I found on the web – and we took it to Leutwiler SA, a local company who implements custom metalwork projects, including gates and fences. The design I made – which was in any case for just the cosmetic stuff, nothing structural – needed some tweaks:... Read more →