a blog by Peter Leonard
Thanksgiving was my chance to help re-mount the back gate on the house in Berkeley — this area had been rearranged due to all the construction over the past year.
We still had 2/3rds of the of the gate hardware attached, all of which was painted in this bizarre purple primer from the original construction in the 1908s and the custom diagonal cut on the hinge to match the wood (see above). A trip to Ace Hardware got us a new hinge to replace the missing bottom one, and some work with the drill got us an area of the wood that was strong enough to support the weight of the gate.