How to solve neighbour-itis?
Have popped this under ‘structures’, since it’s for fencing?
My lovely side garden runs parallel with a pavement and road within our estate, and is around 20m long. The fence was partially 5ft high and partially 6ft when I moved in, and I sought relevant permission to extend the top with horizontal slats to make it 6ft the whole length.
The problem is, the gaps between the fence boards and between the trellis slats are big enough that my neighbours can easily peer in from the pavement if they decide to. Most people just breeze on by since it’s a thoroughfare, but there’s one bloke who will stop and intentionally look through to see what I’m doing, particularly now that I’ve started work to turn the grass rectangle into a garden. Before I added the slats, he would have his whole head above my fence scaring the daylights out of me trying to chat when my back was turned. I’m already overlooked by the 2nd storey windows of the houses across the road, I don’t want to be looked into on purpose as well!
I don’t have the budget to replace what would be 42m of fence in total, although I would love a solid close board fence further down the line.
I had experimented with rolls of brown plastic privacy screening, and yes it works in that you can’t see straight through it, but it looks bloody awful.
I suppose I’m asking whether this idea would look naff or not - to use rolls of brushwood screening, and use fencing staples to attach them inside the fence? 1st pic is what I’m working with where you can see the universe through my boards, and the hideous plastic experiment; 2nd is an AI mock up; 3rd pic is the type of screening I’m talking about.
I’ll eventually have the garden swing situated on hard standing, with beds and planting in front of the fence, but I can’t wait that long for climbers to establish for privacy. Thanks for ideas in advance!