The Good Life website showed this cute idea for a fence: It’s one you’re allowed to write on.
Eric Johnson, a Minnesota gardener who has blogged at GardenDrama.wordpress.com, showed us this inspired idea: Drill holes in your wood fence just large enough to hold colorful glass marbles snugly. Then wait for the sun to make them sparkle!
The idea of decorating a garden fence with old china comes from Manuela Williams, who blogs at ACultivatedNest.com and comes up with ideas for vintage/cottage-style interiors and exteriors. She also marked off a planting bed by surrounding it with vintage dinner plates standing upright, dug into the soil.
Gives new meaning to outdoor furniture, doesn’t it?
Just stringing these lights along the uprights of the fence makes for a mesmerizing effect. These are Indian wedding lights posted by Naeem on Flickr.
From The Brambleberry Cottage comes this idea using old window frames. Fitting the windows with mirror bounces light around and can make backyard vistas seem larger.
From Ciera Design Studio comes this simple but effective idea using tin cans. You could use many kinds of containers; the key is the repetition of shape and color.
Small hanging planters may not have much impact. The solution here was to heighten their importance by “framing” them. From Viralnova.com.
This cheerful addition to the backyard fence can go on and on, depending on how many old crates and flower pots and cans of paint you have. The Internet has lots of variations on this idea, but we saw this colorful one on Viralnova.com.
Lucy Langlois of LucyDesignsOnline.com blogged about these “dragonflies” almost 10 years ago, up-cycling old table legs and . . ceiling fan blades. Go figure. Lucy has moved on to other projects (after selling about 300 dragonflies). Photo from LucyDesignsOnline.com.
If you’re feeling funky, just about anything can be turned into fence “art.” At first I thought this was a mantel, but it’s apparently the sawed-off end of a farm table. From Viralnova.com.
