Decorative Holiday Fence Ideas and How to Implement Them

With Thanksgiving passed, many of us are well into the holiday spirit, so here are a few ideas and implementations for incorporating your fence into your home and landscape's holiday look. 

Firstly we have a great idea from DIY Network to upcycle picket fence pieces into a rustic "North woods-style" wreath. The process is to cut the wood pickets and attach them to a large wooden wreath form using hot glue and nails, then securing garland and pine cones with 22-gauge floral wire. Click here for detailed instructions. 

 




On a post & rail fence, simply hanging a wreath over one of the posts offers a simple solution for a rustic country holiday look as in this picture from Alaska in Pictures. In this case it's likely that no fastener is even needed. If a fastening method seems necessary, fishing line works well. 


 Here's another wonderfully rustic image from Ocracoke, North Carolina of a simple wreath hung on a cedar picket fence covered in lichen. Thanks to George Brown and Pixadilly.com for this one. 




 Now for those who are looking at a much more refined vision for the season, we would like to offer the following two much more upscale holiday landscape designs. 

 Below is the Harrington Oaks Christmas look from ideabooks by houzz.com. With a design combining lights, ribbons, wreaths and garlands, you will surely want a fastening system and as mentioned above, fishing line works well. For heavier items like wreaths, just wrap it around a few times. Avoid using nails if possible, but if they are necessary, be sure to use galvanized in avoidance of rust.

 Pam offers the look to the right in her Simple Details blog. It's from a page in the Pottery Barn catalog and as she puts it, "After a trip to Dollar Tree for ornaments and my garage attic to retrieve the wreaths, I'm only 658 ornaments, 219 glue sticks, underestimated hours of labor and a dusting of snow, away from the picturesque perfection of page 76!" 

Aside from simple hanging a wreath, we also came across a couple of ideas to spruce up a chain link fence for the holidays. What could be easier than to hang Christmas ornaments from the chain link? That's just what Stefanie Girard suggests in her Sweater Surgery blog. 

This technique can be used for other holidays as well, but a more traditional look can also be achieved on a chain link fence as Vicky of Chain Link Trellis blog offers below, in which she drapes the fence with artificial (or "fake", as she puts it) garland, which could of course be substituted with the real thing. 

 In the image to the left from Naturworks organic gardening and landscape design in Northford, Connecticut, who take a completely natural approach to the holidays, we can see how a solid board wooden privacy fence is transformed for the season into a "wall of wreaths", each one custom made. 

And the last piece we'll enjoy comes from Dave Huss via photospin.com and represents a holiday fence design which is both non-traditional and rustic at the same time. More of a spring wreath, but the idea could easily be adapted for the winter season. It appears to be a wreath made of barb wire, hanging on a welded wire fence. Don't mind the POSTED Keep Out sign. 

If you have any innovative or traditional ideas for incorporating and integrating the fence into a celebratory seasonal holiday design, please share with us and feel free to post pics. 

Happy Holidays.