The wooden fence is an interesting element to a home. Designed to provide privacy and division from the rest of the world, there is often a lot of room for aesthetic improvement--especially for older, worn fences. We've lived in many a home with a beat-up fence but no funds to replace the whole shebang. This image, then, inspires us to take a simple approach to livening up the fenceline...
Inspiration: Adding a Touch of Color
Featured in the June 2009 issue of Dwell, this home is lauded for its exceptionally high solar exposure. We love the little splash of color that Architect Peter Kuczia added to the facade, by simply painting eleven fence planks in citrus hues. This gives the otherwise untreated fence, which is really nothing fancy in terms of modern design, a very contemporary appeal. This seems to us to be a great way to add a playful point of interest to an otherwise ordinary fence.
(Images: Tomek Pikula for Dwell June 2009)
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Our HOA does not allow us to paint the concrete walls in our back yard. I was thinking of using side walk chalk to add, "a touch of color" to a course of the bricks.
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Love it -- now I want to do this to create a horizontal stripe of color on a bamboo fence we're building -- the bamboo goes horizontally.
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Love it.
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This is one of those things that looks great in photos as art, but if I saw it walking down the street I would wonder why my neighbor was being lazy and didn't paint the whole fence.
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It fits the modern style of this particular house. With most houses, it may look a wee bit shabby and unfinished unless passerby people could see a definite pattern to the colors.
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I am thinking about doing a version of this -- painting the bottom portion of our fence blue in a sine wave-type pattern. I may try photoshopping it first to see whether it'll just look unfinished or not! The plan is that we would do the plants in front of it roughly to match the shape.
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