Privacy Please: Outdoor Walls
Gone are the days of plain old privacy fences where you had to have the more attractive side facing out toward the neighbors. Landscape Architects are using privacy fences and outdoor walls as an opportunity to catch our attention.
There are so many different things you can integrate into your walls. Think Hanging Gardens of Babylon and use plants to cover a trellis wall, or have a vertical plant wall added. You can add a sculptural design to your walls. Do you have kids? Check out the brilliant chalkboard wall and climbing wall photographed below. With walls you can play with peek-a-boo views, letting light in, creating shadows, adding new materials, contrasting with or continuing from the house, and much more. Here's a fun sampling:
There are so many different things you can integrate into your walls. Think Hanging Gardens of Babylon and use plants to cover a trellis wall, or have a vertical plant wall added. You can add a sculptural design to your walls. Do you have kids? Check out the brilliant chalkboard wall and climbing wall photographed below. With walls you can play with peek-a-boo views, letting light in, creating shadows, adding new materials, contrasting with or continuing from the house, and much more. Here's a fun sampling:
Vertical Gardens are becoming more and more accessible to us regular folks these days!
Gabion walls are a great way to show use stones.
Copper basket weave with trees woven in - I'm not sure anything is going to top this one!
This modern trellis can eventually let the plants provide full privacy.
Horizontal boards draw the eye in a completely different way.
This opaque wall changes color throughout the night.
A slatted wall can transform the yard as the shadows it casts change throughout the day.
This tumbled stone wall creates a cozy hideaway.
This wall offers different peeks out and frames different views, and allows the space to feel more open.
You can even integrate bold horizontal stripes into your outdoor walls.