Fencing around the house and the site is not only for the sake of safety or the desire to retire. A beautiful fence is a visiting card of the owners of the house, it is he who makes the first impression on passers-by or guests, and it is by him that they judge the home ownership in general and the owners themselves.
If you just need to conditionally hide the house from prying eyes, then a decorative wooden fence or a beautiful hedge will be enough, but when the house is in the city, in a noisy place, then more serious requirements are usually made to the fence.
Wooden fences
The advantages of wood for the construction of a fence, first of all, lie in the wide possibilities for installing a fence. There is always an opportunity to create an original fence with a non-standard design and complex structure.
This natural material is easy to process, so here there is an opportunity for home creativity. The fence can be not only solid, but also openwork, high or low, of any configuration and very complex design.
On a note! Wooden fences for a private house are most often painted, but sometimes they are left in their natural form, impregnated with special compounds or just linseed oil.
A wooden fence is slightly inferior in its strength and service life to a stone, concrete or brick fence, but it has a lower price and can always be replaced.
As a material, you can use not only boards or a picket fence, but also various slats, stakes, whole logs and even branches. Everything basically depends on the style of your home, on what kind of landscape design is chosen on the backyard, on your imagination, and what goals you are pursuing.
Combined wood fence
- Combined fences are a very common type of fencing. The foundation of such fences is made from a variety of materials; it is best to solve it in the same way as the house. The facade of the house and the base of the fence should be in harmony with each other. However, you can also "tie" the fence to the elements of the landscape design of the site.
Contrary to popular belief, wood fences look very harmonious not only in the country and in the countryside, but also in the urban private sector, especially when there is a stone, concrete or brick base under the wood hedge.
Combined wooden fencing options
- It is permissible to combine a wooden fence with modern building materials, say, polycarbonate sheets. Such a fence will look modern and unique, and in terms of its strength it will not be inferior to a traditional wooden structure.
- A picket fence looks very aesthetically pleasing. There is a lot of envy here on how you decided to arrange the picket fence: horizontally, strictly vertically, making a simple ornament out of boards.
- It is very good if the fence around the entire site is in harmony with small decorative fences that are inscribed in the landscape design of the site.
- From a picket fence, the same as on the fence, it is good to make a small gazebo, a bench, fence a flower bed or a playground. As a result, you get a very harmonious, completely finished design, attractive in appearance.
- Rustic wooden stiles go well with pillar-clad ceramic jugs planted with tall flowers, gnome and animal figurines. It is good to place a cart, a large wheel, a chest next to the stile. Any simple material has both functionality and decorative properties.
- Perfectly combined with a combined fence in a rustic style - tall sunflowers, a few brooms of sorghum or corn, fruit trees, a bench made of whole stumps. All this will emphasize the beauty of a small fence and the aesthetic taste of the owner of the house.
On a note! In order to extend the service life of a wooden fence, you need to cover the picket boards with a special protective varnish for wood or drying oil.
Such models, as a rule, are assembled from various elements of forging or assembled from sheets of a metal profile, which is installed on frames of a similar material. For reliability and durability, such a fence is placed on a solid foundation of stone or concrete.
Options for metal fences for a private house
- Fences made of metal mesh - look great and will last much longer if they are placed on a concrete or reinforced concrete base.
If at the same time the foundation is made high, revetted with tiles, more budgetary plastic or other material, then the fence will not only last a long time, but it will also look good.
- Forged fences are considered to be the most beautiful and elegant metal fencing. Lace patterns made of metal can become the main decoration of the entire household. In addition, forged fences are strong and serve for decades.
But they have a significant drawback - they do not protect the plot with the house from prying eyes from the street. The ideal solution in this case is to plant an ornamental shrub from the side of the house, which after a few years will turn into a dense hedge.
Brick fences can be of different thicknesses and heights (from half a meter to three meters). If the walls of the fence are thick, then the site is protected reliably, but at the same time the load on the foundation is very high, so it must be reliable.
You should also think about aesthetics: for example, a brick fence in the form of a solid sheet of masonry tires the eye, therefore, for its additional decorative effect, small columns are formed at equal distances.
Very beautiful fences are made by combining brick with elements of forging and masonry. Such a fence fits perfectly into any landscape, decorates the site.
On a note! A brick fence looks more decorative if the masonry is laid out in the form of a pattern, a simple ornament. Some bricks can be slightly pushed out by placing them symmetrically, or you can diversify a monotonous surface with small gaps.
Concrete fence
Concrete fences are reliable and strong, their service life is less than that of brick fences - several decades, but they are also less expensive. It is most advisable to purchase ready-made concrete blocks for arranging the fence.
Blocks are produced in different, for example, they are both full-bodied and hollow, with additional decorative trim on one side. The color scheme of concrete blocks is also different, it all depends on your individual preferences.
On a note! A concrete fence is placed on the foundation, otherwise the structure may lose its strength. The installation of the fence is relatively quick.
Vinyl fencing
Vinyl fences began to be made relatively recently, and they immediately gained popularity. Vinyl, in essence, is a frost-resistant and rather durable material, similar in appearance to plastic.
The peculiarity of this material is also in the fact that vinyl is able to take the most unusual shape. This material is not only easy to install, but also very practical during operation.
A vinyl fence does not need to be painted, it is easy to clean, and it will serve for a relatively long time. To all these advantages, it is worth adding a long service life and resistance to aggressive environmental influences. Vinyl fence is easy to install, and there are so many ideas for design implementations that it is impossible to list them in one article.
Hedge - natural natural fence
The most fashionable trend today in the organization of landscape design is a living wall, hedges, colorful panels of evergreen vegetation and flowers. The hedge, taking into account the fact that we attach more and more importance to naturalness and environmental friendliness, is becoming more and more relevant.
A natural fence is always unique; by default, there are no two identical options. You can combine traditional fences and hedges. Above, we have already mentioned the possibilities of combining a hedge and a wrought iron fence. But also brickwork, concrete can be decorated with greenery, fast-growing vines, such as wild grapes, ivy. All this will look great, and will give your home a mysterious halo.
Advice! If you need to protect a small area, it is good to plant trees and bushes with a powerful root system around the entire perimeter. When planting a "hedge", you should put up racks, pull rows of wire between them. Plants are planted on both sides of the stretched wire.
A high-quality hedge requires not only the ability to cut such a fence, but also at least elementary agronomic knowledge when growing it. If you have clearly decided to equip such a hedge, you need to study this issue. You should be careful with the selection of plants, evaluate their natural density, the time of leaf shedding.
In conclusion, I would like to remind you that even the most modest fence will look better if it is additionally decorated. If a forged fence does not need additional decorations, then it is better to "revive" fences made of stone.
A very high stone fence will be approached by a huge boulder, which will rest near the gate, as well as a row of several fir trees growing at a distance.A fence made of solid monolithic concrete is best decorated with a variety of mosaics, in accordance with the general style of the house and site.
There are many options for various materials today for the manufacture of fences, exactly the same as options for their original combination and decoration of finished structures.
A beautiful fence is a mirror of your home, an indicator of your attitude to your home, so it should always be neat, neat, modern and fashionable, no matter what material it is made of.