Creatively design your fence

Creatively Design a Fence - Tips for Fence Design

Is a garden fence purely for the protection of your property? Not at all! A wrought iron fence can become a real eye-catcher if it's creatively designed. We provide the best tips and present the most beautiful garden fence ideas that will give even the simplest fence a very special character.

Whether it's a wooden fence or a metal fence, the possibilities for creatively designing a fence are diverse and range from bright colors to lush flowering plants. The best part: Our tips and tricks are easy to implement and require little craftsmanship.

Unusual Garden Fences Made of Wood and Stone

Even before you consider how to creatively design your fence, you need to choose the material. Whether it's a classic picket fence, a privacy screen made from Euro pallets, stone gabions, or an elegant metal fence – the materials are as diverse as the design options.

Creatively Design and Rework a Wooden Fence

Perhaps you're considering installing a classic wooden fence to enclose your property – or perhaps you already have a picket fence in your garden that you find too boring. View the fence as a creative foundation. Wood is a wonderful material and can be designed in a variety of ways.

©maho/ AdobeStock: A simple wooden fence offers many possibilities for creative design.

For example, grab a saw. With a little patience and a delicate touch, you can saw beautiful ornaments into the wood. The following video shows how to create fence figures from the tips of the wooden slats. Whether playful animal figures or geometric shapes like circles, rectangles, and diamonds – there are no limits to your creativity.

Carved patterns and ornaments that decorate the wooden surface are also attractive. Since this form of fence design is somewhat more time-consuming, it is more suitable for small fences or individual fence posts.

To work with the wood, you will need carving tools and a steady hand. It is best to draw the desired patterns with a pencil before you begin the actual carving. This way, you can ensure that the result fully meets your expectations.

©Gresei/ AdobeStock: With the right carving tools and a little skill, you can embellish your garden fence with a variety of patterns.

The gabion as a creative fence with modern charm

With a fence made of gabions – also called stone baskets or brick baskets – you're currently very much in vogue. This puristic fence looks particularly good on modern properties and impresses with its functionality, reliable privacy, and clean character.

Would you have thought that a gabion fence could be built relatively quickly with the necessary materials? This allows you to design the modern fence according to your wishes – for example, with different types of stone. Classics include basalt rubble stones, which are filled into the gabion. Your fence will be more creative and colorful if you fill it with different colored stones, for example in layers. A mixture of stone types such as light and dark marble, quartz porphyry, and colored gravel is attractive.

Creative fence as a gabion with various stones

©ThomBal/ AdobeStock: Eye-catcher in summery turquoise: A gabion partially filled with glass stones.

If you like things extravagant, colorful glass stones are sure to suit your taste. Turquoise and green glass stones, which can even be illuminated with LED lights, are particularly popular here. This will make your fence an impressive eye-catcher in the dark.

A fence made from Euro pallets – trendy and practical

Not only furniture and raised beds made from Euro pallets are currently popular, but also fences. For smaller gardens, these are ideal as a privacy screen and also have a practical use – they can be planted quickly and easily.

Creatively greened fence made from Euro pallets

©Tatjana Balzer/ AdobeStock: A great idea for an unusual garden fence: planted Euro pallets.

The spaces between the pallets (also called nests) are ideal for smaller plants such as succulents, ivy, and ferns. Various herbs such as parsley, rosemary, and basil also find plenty of room here.

Building a fence or privacy screen from pallets isn't as difficult as it might seem. This video explains step-by-step how to build a creative garden fence using standard Euro pallets:

Design beautifully and creatively – a metal fence

If fences made of wood and stone aren't your style, then an elegant metal fence certainly will. It encloses your garden and property in a particularly stylish way and can be beautifully designed – entirely according to your ideas.

You can customize a fence made of dimensionally stable wrought iron to your individual needs, ensuring the metal fence blends harmoniously with the style of your property. In addition to the shape and size, you can also freely choose the type of coating – from powder-coated to hot-dip galvanized to uncoated. While a powder-coated finish (as shown in the image above) has a classic, elegant feel, a hot-dip galvanized fence has a more modern feel. An uncoated metal fence develops a sophisticated rust finish over time, further emphasizing its romantic character.

Whether simple and straightforward or richly decorated with ornaments: A metal fence will reliably protect your garden for years to come while remaining a consistently decorative eye-catcher.