Design of a fence for a suburban area: a new life of building materials (44 photos)

Modern fences, in addition to their main task (protecting the home and garden from uninvited guests and prying eyes), also perform a decorative function. Fences are built both from traditional materials, such as wood, stone, brick, and from relatively new ones - polycarbonate, plastic, etc. Let's dwell in more detail on the types of modern fences, their advantages and disadvantages.

Wooden fences

Wood is the most traditional material used by mankind since ancient times for the manufacture of fences. A wooden fence is not necessarily a continuous canvas of painted boards.

Here are just some of the effects:

• Openwork carving of the type that can still be seen on the facades in Vologda and other cities with a long history. Only individual elements, for example, a gate, can be decorated with carvings.
• The use of boards of different heights, as a result of which the top edge of the fence is curly.
• Various compositions that are created when placing boards at a certain angle to each other and much more.
• Another option is to make a palisade of logs, which may have pointed ends. Very well, such a fence is combined with a wooden house.
• Fences and gates for a summer cottage or a country house in the form of wattle also look pretty good. It is very easy to do it yourself.

Interesting effects are obtained if the design of the fence involves combining wood with other materials - stone, metal. Often you can see beautiful brick fences with wooden sections.

Metal fences

The mansion, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, recalls stories about the aristocracy of the 19th century. In fact, the most successful epithet that can be selected for such a fence is “exquisite”.

There are several types of metal fences:

• Fences, which are a standard metal construction, which is complemented by forged elements. This is the most budget option often used by various institutions.
• Forged fence using welding. Products in which standard elements are combined with custom-made ones.
• Decorative fences, gates and gates, which "from and to" are made according to the individual project of the customer. In this case, the master spends much more time and labor. Needless to say, this is the most expensive form of forged fences, and the cost largely depends on the number of decorative elements.

Forged can be not only the external fences of the house or garden, but also the internal fence in the area, for example, around the flowerbed.

If for some reason you don’t want to make the whole fence out of metal, you can order forged gates or gates - they will look great in combination with a stone or brick fence.

Forged masterpieces blend well with wooden elements. As a modernized design, you can meet a metal fence with elements from a profiled sheet.

Fences from corrugated board

What can you imagine when you hear the phrase "a fence of metal sheets"? Some kind of production facility ... However, this is not so - fences from corrugated board are not only beautiful and reliable, but also very diverse in terms of design decisions.

Decking is available in a huge range of colors, but that's not all. Today, manufacturers offer material that imitates a tree of various species, masonry or brickwork, and to determine that before you fence from corrugated board, you can only look closely.

Such material is often combined with stone, brick, and even with forged elements. In this case, only pillars can be made of stone or a stone base can be added. Gates, fences and gates from the profiled sheet can be supplemented with forged parts.

Gates from corrugated board are oar and sliding. If necessary, they can easily embed a gate. A professional sheet fence, supplemented with material with certain properties, can also perform a noise-insulating function (this is important if some part of the garden or house adjoins a noisy street).

Chain-link fence

In our article, one cannot fail to pay attention to such a type of fencing as a fence from a netting net. Such fences are used mainly for suburban areas, however, they are different, primarily depending on the material used.

Today there are the following types of mesh netting:

• Un galvanized. This is the most budget option, but its service life is the shortest. It has to be painted every year, otherwise rust cannot be avoided.
• Galvanized. It is more expensive, but it does not have the above-described disadvantages - it is not afraid of rust and does not need to be painted.
• The next type of chain-link is plasticized. That is, a polymer layer is applied on top of the wire. When choosing such a material, you should pay attention to the thickness of the wire: if it easily bends when pressed with your fingers, then it is better to refuse such a netting - it will be difficult to pull it when installing the fence.
• Plastic It is made entirely of polymer. A characteristic feature of this chain-link is the different shape of the cells: they can be of a traditional shape, rectangular or even round, so a very original fence can be made. Such a grid can be used as a garden fence from the neighbors, for the manufacture of an internal fence and a gate, but not from the street - for this it is not strong enough.

Fencing from the netting can be ennobled by planting climbing plants along it. In this case, only the gates remain free from it.

Stone fences

Fences made entirely of stone look monumental and even majestic. So that the stone fence around the garden or the house does not look gloomy, it is often supplemented with forged elements (metal gates, the upper part is made of metal), and also combined with bricks, wood and profiled sheets.

Materials used for stone fence:

• Granite is the most durable, but it is rather difficult to process it, therefore it is rarely used.
• Dolomite is very convenient in operation, since it is easy to give it the desired shape with the help of a grinder.
• Rubble stone. Gives a wide selection of design options, since there are many of its varieties in different colors.

Of course, it is impossible to make gates or gates from stone, therefore they are made of wood or other material that is suitable in appearance - metal, corrugated board.