Our garden fence is getting a bit past it so looking at options and wondered if anybody had any bright ideas . This is what we currently have
10x 6ft x 4ft (mostly) tall with 1ft concrete gravel boards so about 5ft high all along (and it slopes downward). Ideally I'd like the height to come down a foot, to give a better view over the top (we live up a hill with a very nice view of the hills over the valley, but there are houses/rooftops behind the bottom half of the fence), but that would leave the posts a foot higher! Is there a good solution to that? The posts are really solid and not something I fancy removing.
We're also wondering about more of an open style - the garden is directly south facing so the bit of ground this side of the gravel boards doesn't really get sun and things wont grow so well if we decide to make a border. my other half is getting a quote to replace the whole lot with metal fencing but my feeling (adding in the removal of all those very solid posts) is that is going to be too open and be way too expensive My thinking is tending towards more open panels like trellis panels or single sided pailing fence - staining the concrete the same colour as the wood. (or maybe even a more solid feather edge panel but with scalloped top give it more of an open feel, sod the plants )
The latest thought thrown into the mix is to replacing the panels with steel wire to make a wire balustrade type affair - can they be run through concrete posts? I still think the posts would be too high though
What would you do??
10x 6ft x 4ft (mostly) tall with 1ft concrete gravel boards so about 5ft high all along (and it slopes downward). Ideally I'd like the height to come down a foot, to give a better view over the top (we live up a hill with a very nice view of the hills over the valley, but there are houses/rooftops behind the bottom half of the fence), but that would leave the posts a foot higher! Is there a good solution to that? The posts are really solid and not something I fancy removing.
We're also wondering about more of an open style - the garden is directly south facing so the bit of ground this side of the gravel boards doesn't really get sun and things wont grow so well if we decide to make a border. my other half is getting a quote to replace the whole lot with metal fencing but my feeling (adding in the removal of all those very solid posts) is that is going to be too open and be way too expensive My thinking is tending towards more open panels like trellis panels or single sided pailing fence - staining the concrete the same colour as the wood. (or maybe even a more solid feather edge panel but with scalloped top give it more of an open feel, sod the plants )
The latest thought thrown into the mix is to replacing the panels with steel wire to make a wire balustrade type affair - can they be run through concrete posts? I still think the posts would be too high though
What would you do??