How to Build a Homemade Fence for Decoration
When you want to define your property lines or perhaps create a decorative border for your landscape, a homemade fence for decoration is the answer. Strong rod iron or vinyl fences do a great job confining kids and dogs inside the yard. With a decorative fence, style is the key -- for instance, a homemade fence to highlight a corner of your yard. Build a decorative corner fence with planks of wood, large stones and wire fencing. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Tape measure
- Four 2-by-4 pieces of wood, 6 feet long
- Cedar stain
- Paintbrush
- Welded wire fencing
- Wire cutter
- J-clips
- Clamping pliers
- Large stones
Instructions
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Apply cedar stain to the boards, which you can find precut or have them cut at a home-improvement store or lumberyard. Use a paintbrush to apply the stain and follow the grain of the wood. This adds color to the fence and protects the wood from the weather. Let the stain dry overnight.
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Determine the height of the fence and measure the area for the fence. You can find welded wire in heights ranging from 3 feet to 6 feet; use 5-foot welded wire fencing for this project.
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Designate an area at the corner of your yard for the homemade fence posts. Mark one spot as the center and the other two spots 68 inches from the center, forming a triangle.
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Roll out a 72-inch section of the welded wire and cut it from the roll with a wire cutter. Wrap the wire around itself to form a circle with an 18-inch diameter.
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Clamp the wire together with J-clips and clamping pliers. Feed stores and home-improvement centers carry these kinds of flat clips and pliers.
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Place the wire circles on the spots you marked earlier for the fence posts.
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Place large stones into the wire circles up to 15 inches. Insert two stained boards into the wire above the rocks so that they run from the center wire "post" to each of the other two. Fill with more stones for another 15 inches and insert another pair of boards. Continue filling the cage with rocks until you reach the top. The weight of the rocks will keep the boards in place.
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Tips & Warnings
Save a step by using treated lumber with stain instead of staining the wood yourself.
You can use chicken wire, sometimes called poultry netting, in lieu of welded wire fencing.
