Horizontal-fence

Wow. The fencers have spoken. Yesterday’s Bed Stuy backyard makeover sparked a wave of inquiry into the horizontal cedar-plank fence. And a 2006 post of ours about a similar horizontal fence has been pinned more than 10,000 times.

Horizontal fences are a thing. And we want to share more.

If you have a horizontal fence and would like to share, please send photos to barbara [at] brownstoner.com along with your neighborhood info and any details useful to folks pondering their own fence installation.


What's Your Take? Leave a Comment

  1. my boyfriend got a horizontal fence for his yard and now it doubles as a perfect ladder for stray cats who take big shits in our garden. sometimes they escape before i’ve had the chance to shoot em with the spray bottle >:T sometimes.

  2. Me too, I like the huge expanse of green we see in the backyard of our Lefferts Manor one-family house because we don’t have apartment buildings behind us and on our side of the block nobody has yet erected tall “outdoor living room” walls yet. Chain link fences are ugly but they do allow a lot more light and air into the garden so even though our garden faces north we still very successfully grow roses and vegetables. I would love more privacy for dinner parties though. But I think that would easily be solved by building a pagoda on a platform for the DR table. As for horizontal slats, it’s dated and very “Dwell” and come on folks, this is a big city after all, WAY easier to climb! Hardly a security fence. Or fence to keep out stray cats as knucks points out below. So sad, that.

  3. We’re in Brooklyn not Hudson Valley. Every yard in Brooklyn is literally a fenced in box.
    How you want to decorate that box is a matter of preference. But you’re smoking something if you think wide open gardens with rolling hills can be had in Brownstone Brooklyn.

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