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As the theater begins with a hanger, infield welcomes its visitors with a garden and fence. Very often the key point in the choice of design are finances, but beauty is a relative concept, and this can be done even without the phenomenal costs.
Deciding to make a fence for the front garden with his own hands, is to determine be it high fence or a small fence. Because it performs several functions:
- Plant protection from animals
- Support for high or creeping flowers
- Separation of space
- As a decorative element
Also you should consider what material will be the future of the building, wrought-iron fence for garden, hedge, stone or brick masonry, metal fence or a wooden fence.
Rich imagination sometimes produces quite unusual ideas. Some make fences for gardens from scrap such as plastic bottles, tires from the wheels and even plates.
Choosing what material will the fence for the garden, do not forget that it must be combined with all structures of the yard and not look ridiculous random structure. We must also consider how much time, effort and cost will it take to build a fence.
Wooden fence ↑
Wooden fence is a classic fence and is often found in front gardens. To make a fence with their hands very easily and quickly.
To start digging small holes about 40 cm deep and set the posts. They fasten the boards or panels, they can be installed both vertically and horizontally.
Variety of prices, types and forms of boards will please anyone. You can also choose any color that fits the overall view of the site or to paint themselves, making, for example, each Board with different colors.
Wicker fence ↑
Such fences for gardens look very stylish and natural. For such a structure suitable twigs of willow or thin branches of fruit trees. Since willow is a flexible plant it will not have great difficulty, tree branches should first steam in a water bath, this will make them flexible.
For starters, dig in the ground pegs or just long, of medium thickness, the branches of trees. They can be placed at uneven distance from each other, preferably closer to the edge to put them more often. Now odletem stakes with willow branches and each next layer crosswise.
Read more how to make a braided fence you can see in the video
Metal fence ↑
The most common is the chainlink fence. Such a grid is called netting. She put in a few hours and requires no additional materials, only mesh and posts to which it is attached. Such a fence will protect the plants from animals and will not hide the flowers from view, giving the opportunity to enjoy their blooms. Significant negative netting is maloprimetny, of course, if subsequently it is planned to plant along the twine plant, the question disappears by itself if there are no such plans, you can use masking or reinforcing mesh.
They come in a variety of colors and the installation of a fence of masking or armored mesh, even easier than fence netting.
No less popular forged front gardens. You can buy them premade and custom made according to your drawing. They fully perform all the functions of the fence and do not hide the beauty of flowering plants. Such a fence requires good financial expenses. Set it by welding, welding of separate finished sections with metal poles. After the fence has cooled after welding, it should be clear and sanding, especially in the weld areas, then degreased and treated with medium from corrosion. Then you can begin to paint.
Another kind of fence for the garden is the corrugated metal sheets. It is easy to assemble, but will hide the beauty of the garden. Most often the leaves are bolted to the supporting pillars of roof with screws, but there are designs that are fixed with bolts. The corrugated sheet is of varying thickness, texture and color. Today, many manufacturers offer sheets corrugated sheets coated with a surface pattern imitating a stone or a tree.
Of course, the cost of such a sheet will be slightly more expensive than its monochrome counterpart, but the appearance of this fence is much better, especially if we talk about the fencing of the front garden, and not the full fence.
Stone fence for garden ↑
People from ancient times used stone for building. Spread around the front garden stone wall more time consuming than other options, but the fence will look natural and it can be made exclusive. Stone fence for the front garden don’t have to be smooth and the same height. Stones can also be of different sizes, density and colors. Even if the fence will be higher, somewhere below. And landed in the ledges between the stones creeping or climbing plants, give the structure of the naturalness and unity with nature.
The best for this fencing suitable stones following parody:
- Sandstone.
- Tuff.
- Granite.
- Slate.
They are resistant to weather events and not crumble over time. Moreover, in contrast to the rocks that formed in water, they have angular faces, making them easier to lay and fasten together.
If you wish to use for fencing the front garden it river or sea stones with rounded shapes, it is necessary to think carefully about the way they lay to the fence did not collapse from accidental contact.
Brick fence for the front yard ↑
Various types of bricks will help create a unique fence. The disadvantages of this fence for front yard in that no prior knowledge of masonry will be hard to build it yourself and it will take a lot of time.
By the way, the modern brick is not only rectangular shapes of the same color can be choose material with different colors and textures.
Another substantial difficulty of the fences for the front garden of brick in that they need a Foundation on which they are built, you can of course skip over that and put the brick directly on the ground, but in this case the ground movement and water damage will quickly destroy the design of the fence and it will have to completely rebuild.
| What fence | Protection | External view | Quality review | Price feature |
| Hedge | Five | Five | Five | Five |
| A fence of trees | Three | Five | Four | Four |
| Wicker fence | Four | Five | Four | Four |
| Boom improvised | Two | Five | Two | Five |
| Stone fence | Five | Five | Five | One |
| Brick wall | Five | Five | Five | 3-2 |
| Concrete construction | Five | Two | Five | Three |
| Fence mesh | Two | One | One | Five |
| Protection of corrugated Board | Three | Three | Five | Three |
| Wrought iron fence | Four | Five | One | One |
| Mixed materials | Four | Five | 5-1 | 5-1 |
Shown above in the table of quality characteristics of different fences according to the score system from one to five, of course, these figures are conditional and depend largely on the quality of work performed, but they can be a start, choosing the appropriate option based on the individual characteristics of your house and garden.
Conclusion ↑
When choosing materials for construction of fences and fencing the front garden, you should consider a lot of factors on which will depend not only external beauty, but also durability of structures. For example, if the site has strong water damage and high salt content in the soil, from stone and brick options should be abandoned.
There are cons and metal fences for gardens – in some parts of our country, the climate is so fickle and changeable that to repaint the fence will have each spring, and it costs both financial and physical.
The tree in this respect is also not ideal and can absorb moisture and crack, even with careful obrade it, but then the main advantage is that these fences are much easier to restore and, if necessary, and replace a few items on the new.
