Fence Style: Surround Yourself with Charm & Elegance

by James Harper and Margie Roe

Good fences make good neighbors--and these beautiful styles will win the admiration of everyone in the neighborhood. Whether it's rustic, formal, or simply a charming old-fashioned white picket fence, it says volumes about the kind of living space you've established. Here's how to build one from scratch, choose a good ready-made version from a store, or decorate an existing fence so it's a landmark once again. A gallery introduces a range of types, from the kind found in a simple cottage garden to something fancy and elaborate. Use this as a springboard for selecting your own fence. Then get to work! The general information on construction covers tools, lumber, coatings, stains, paints, varnishes, and hardware, as well as specifics for building fences out of pickets, twigs, and lattices. Embellish the finished project with murals, block printing, stenciling, stamping, birdfeeders, scarecrows, and more! 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806939451
• ISBN13: 9780806939452
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Charming and useful

Yes a book about fences. Even I was surprised when I picked it up and took it home. I was in a hurry and had a blonde moment because I thought it said French Style. But... it turned out to be a book I actually like.Just shy of 130 pages it is a book of beautiful photos of all kinds of fences. Some fences are the New England classics and some are wild west and awesome. Some are plain white and some are vivid purple hues.Then there are instructions on how to build a stone fence , dry retaining wall, wet retaining wall, metal fences, and classic picket, vertical board, stacked rails, post and rail, slat, lattice, basket weave and stake.On page 86 the issue of lumber grade is discussed. As well as dimensional lumber 24 inches and 2-4 inches thick, boards less than 2 inches thick. And the frosting on the cake is what kind of finish to give the fences and how to apply it. I love fences myself and the book reminded me of rural fences in Montana and the Dakotas, the fences we see along the coast of California and the hooty tooty fences in areas like Woodside and up in Marine County. The stone fences we saw in Maine and which dot the landscape in the Yorkshire Dales on England.It's a charming and useful book.UPDATE April 2002 We are settled into our new Sierra mountain cottage and I am actually using this book as I re-design the fencing and the additional new gates.