However, be mindful not to block light with a taller front yard fence. A modern style that's popular is a wooden semi-privacy fence with thin horizontal slats and narrow gaps.

To conserve natural resources, as well as your time and money, I would recommend wood fence designs that allow you to build your fence in a modular fashion. This means using wood materials in such ...

To conserve natural resources, as well as your time and money, I would recommend wood fence designs that allow you to build your fence in a modular fashion.

You can now fashion 8 different fence post designs if you want. The decorative posts I cut for my wife all those years ago were created by making 20 saw cuts at the top of each post.

It's important to maintain your wood fence and to watch for signs that it may need to be replaced.

White picket and natural wood fences may be more common, but garden fences painted black can be surprisingly effective in the landscape.