One of the best ways to fence a yard on a low budget is to do it yourself. While putting in a fence is time consuming and labor intensive, the materials can be very affordable. As you plan your next fence project, consider the following tips for keeping it within a low budget. Complete a …Read More
Author: Elizabeth
10 DIY Tips for Maintaining Your Fence
Nothing improves the look of your home like a beautiful fence. However, maintaining that look requires work; if little and often are your watchwords, these 10 DIY tips will make sure your fence keeps your curb appeal up, rather than dragging it down! Try Power washing. Your fence will pick up a lot of grime, …Read More
Ideas to Revamp Your Deck Space
Your deck space can be the most attractive or the most embarrassing spot in your home depending on how you use it. Your patio serves you well if you are content to place a chair and read the newspaper once in a while. Perhaps the climate compels you to stay indoors. Most of the homeowners …Read More
Creative Landscaping Ideas for Yard Boundaries
Oftentimes when planning a landscaping design, property owners are stumped by yard boundaries. The good news is you don’t have to suffer with boring vinyl or chain link fences. Below are four creative ideas you can use to spruce up your yard boundaries. 1. Chain Link Beauty Chain link fences are highly effective yard boundaries. …Read More
Why Not Have a Pond With Ducks in Your Front Yard?
It is fascinating to watch ducks swimming in a pond. They seem to be on a royal cruise with their heads held high and opening their beak to quack merrily. Isn’t it a great idea to have a duck pond in your front yard! Apart from its aesthetic appeal, a water body in your front …Read More
Fencing to Deter Deer from Straying into Your Backyard
If you live in an area where the local wildlife includes a proliferation of deer, you’ve probably encountered more than a few of them in your backyard or garden, nibbling away at your plants, trees, and shrubs. Rather than wait for hunting season, you can take immediate steps to deter deer from using your yard …Read More
First Aid for Freak Fence Accidents
It’s amazing, once you start noticing, how many freak accidents occur that involve assaults and random acts of violence by fences. They apparently have it out for us humans, and no one has determined just why they seem so bent on perpetrating the muggings and maimings. What’s more shocking is that there are an alarming …Read More
7 Fence Idioms
Fences are everywhere around us, whether they are literal and used for enclosing particular spaces, or figurative and used as an expression of speech to really mean something else. Here are seven different phrases that use the word “fence” and what they really mean. Swing for the fence. This phrase is baseball-oriented, because swinging for …Read More
How to Creatively Repurpose Vinyl Fences
If you are a DIY enthusiast, you are probably always on the lookout for something that you can repurpose and reuse. Old vinyl fences are a great way to get creative around the house. Here are five ways to turn them into something new. Sunburst Mirror Frame Take a round mirror and if it doesn’t …Read More
Role of Fencing Style in Garden Landscaping
You are excited about installing your new fencing around your garden. Now the holes are dug and the posts and boards are being installed. You are dying to see the final effect. Once the fence installation is finished, you take a look and you realize that your garden looks weird and fencing looks out of …Read More