We recently bought a new home. It has brick gate posts? that are about four feet tall and 18x18 inches on the top. The neighbors to the left of me have carriage lamps on their brick gate posts and the neighbors to the right have lions.
Of course we want to “keep up with the Jones’s” so we need something on our gate posts as well. We have agreed on gargoyles, but cannot agree if we need two of the same or if we can two different but same sized ones.
Anyone got any facts or opinions?
Suggestions as to where to find 18 inch tall, weather proof* gargoyles would be helpful as well
*the sun isn’t nearly as intense as AZ sun, but it rains a whole lot here.
First, yes, do keep up with the neighbors but have fun doing it. And I agree, a matched set.
HomeDepot.com has several cute cat garden sculptures, including a cat birdwatching one. Not 18” though. I think it was 12”. There were a selection there though.
Amazon has them under ‘cat garden sculptures’, like 5,000+. If you choose cast stone ones, please don’t ship them through @dogbutler’s depot!
I’d tend to wander over to the neighbors with a plate of cookies and admire their statues and ask them where they got them.
Where I live I would check places called architectural salvage yards but I don’t know if WV hamlets have those. Barring that, finding an architect or a professional landscape designer to ask where to find architectural salvage might point to something worth saving and reusing.
How far apart are the gateposts? Do you have a favorite hobby or sport? Instead of a matched pair, how about complementary? A fisherman and a leaping fish - one tennis player serving, t’other poised to receive - pitcher and batter - Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum…
But IME the sorts of dedicated yards that sell concrete pavers and various sorted rocks for landscaping also tend to carry a line of cast concrete sculptures.
Even though an 18" base so ~24" tall sculpture will be hollow, it will also be heavy. So buying local will save on mongo shipping costs. And you’ll be sure your thing arrives unbroken.
I say Google up your local concrete pavers and rocks (sometimes called “hardscape”) suppliers and call them. Even if they don’t sell sculptures, they’ll almost certainly know who locally does.
Now me knowing the OP a bit better than some, I’m going to suggest that nobody within 300 miles of where she lives will have anything nearly outré enough for her tastes. As @ParallelLines points out.
My spousal unit would insist on a matching pair. Frankly, I think that’s boring. I’d go for similar size but not identical, just because. As for type - that could be tough. It would probably vary with my mood, so no suggestion there.
Just returned for a walk and one of the gardens has two concrete trolls. One has their arms up in victory pose, the other has their arms crossed in front.
