How to Find Ideas for Fences
If you want a fence that is a little out of the ordinary, try designing your own instead of relying on the prefabricated materials available at the store. Here's how you can get the creative inspiration you need. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Measuring Tapes
- Home Improvement Magazines
- Pencils
- Spiral Notebooks
- Cameras
Instructions
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Look in books and magazines about fences and carpentry as well as architecture and travel. Be on the lookout for books and magazines with pictures of buildings and places that appeal to you and check out the photos for fences and other details.
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Sketch, photograph and measure fences that you like. (See "Record Landscape Ideas in the Field," under Related eHows.) Take a walk or drive through an upscale neighborhood, where the professional designers have been at work, and look at the fences instead of the houses.
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Stroll the nearest historic district and note what fence designs are common there. Historical sites or museum houses often have fences that are appropriate for your region. These have stood the test of time in your region for various reasons - be it a sensible response to the climate, a creative use of local materials or as an expression of the locale.
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Ask a local craftsman such as a blacksmith, carpenter or mason to direct you to his or her best work in the area.
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Watch movies made in your area or in a setting that stirs your imagination and record the types of fences that the set designer used.
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Hire a landscape architect or a landscape architecture student. If there is a local university with a landscape architecture department, you might be able to get a bargain rate on the design fee for a creative and professional fence design.
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