Installing fencing around the perimeter of your backyard or garden is an effective garden privacy screening option when you don’t want to wait for plant based screening such as hedging or bamboo, or if your homeowner association does not allow alternative options. As with other privacy solutions, fences come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and materials. This gives you considerable flexibility depending on your needs regarding purpose, height, climate, and appearance.
Assuming you are not required by your community to conform to a specific style or material type for your fence you can generally choose between wood, stone, metal, fencing. Each have specific characteristics that can benefit your backyard.
Metal:
Ranging from simple utilitarian looking chain link fences to wrought iron metal metal is a popular choice for many individuals–including pet owners and security conscious homeowners. Most metal fences are both easy to install and affordable to purchase. More ornate wrought iron metal fences are a good choice for anyone who wants a something to compliment a colonial style architecture. Most metals used in the construction of metal fencing is galvinized to prevent rusting, this make metal fences a very low maintenance choice for many homeowners. And if the owner wishes, fast growing vines can be added to help the fence blend in better with the rest of the garden.
Wood:
Wood picket fences is as much of an American icon as hamburgers and pie. Wood is a very popular choice for anyone wanting a rustic or traditional look in their homes. Wood is also very cheap and easy for most homeowners to install. While many might think short picket fences when imagining a wood fence, they can also be made to be taller which can make them effective privacy barriers. Wood fences however, do require some maintenance to ward off rot and deterioration.
Stone: Arguably able to provide the most shelter from the wind and maximum level of privacy, stone walls are a solid choice who want a very durable and low maintenance privacy screening solution. Being much harder to install, stone walls tend to be a much more expensive alternative to wood or metal fencing. Regardless of whether the wall is left bare or is coated with a layer of stucco, most stone walls require little or no maintenance on the part of the homeowner.