25 Ideas for Decorating your Garden Fence

The humble garden fence is often neglected. While we may paint or stain them, we rarely think about decorating them. This Spring, let’s celebrate our garden fences and show them some love.

Turn your fence into a blank canvas and adorn it with your favorite upcycled items or beautiful pieces.

1. Rain boots.

Children quickly outgrow their shoes, including rain boots, which can be repurposed as fun planters. Hang the rain boots on the fence in your child’s garden area, allowing them to grow their own flowers.

Unsure what to do with your old bottles? Create fence art that will certainly be a talking point.

Bird Boxes

Adding bird boxes to a fence is not new. Paint them in bold colors and group them.

Paint your fence with a mural for added visual interest.

Create a ladder effect with planters to efficiently grow herbs in small gardens. This space-saving solution allows for optimal plant growth.

Creating wall art with picture frames is a trendy way to decorate. You can also extend this look to your fence for a cohesive outdoor aesthetic.

Wooden shutters are a popular choice for upcycling, both indoors and outdoors.

Fairy Lights.

Simple, effective, stylish, and elegant, fairy lights can do wonders.

Create a vertical garden with pot plants. Place them uniformly on your fence, keep the palette simple, and let the plants add color.

The use of letters is striking, regardless of whether you use wood, metal, or mirror.

Paint your metal art in bright colors for a vibrant Spring fence.

Instead of discarding your old jewelry organizer, mount it on your fence and add a shelf.

Mason Jars:

Add night lights or plants to your jars and hang them at regular intervals along your fence.

Astro Turf is a great option for hiding an old and battered fence. It provides a beautiful backdrop, especially for a clean contemporary design.

Adding silver trays to a fence creates a vintage chic look.

A recycled coffee table can beautify your garden.

Wood crates can be used as shelving in a variety of colors and naturals.

Old handbags can be used as planters. Hang them on your fence at regular intervals with a variety of designs.

Mirrors work well in gardens, particularly when creating a sense of space.

Patterned plates displayed decoratively add color, texture. Blend different styles, shapes, and add climbing plants, pots to finish the look.

Following our shoe theme, hanging shoe storage can be used not only for the backs of doors or inside closets but also to create a vertical garden effortlessly. Simply add your favorite plants or herbs.

Ornamental trellis is a work of art. It serves to display the trellis as a decorative item and appreciate its design. A light painted fence allows the patterns to stand out.

Adding a couple of climbing plants completes the look.

Create art by recycling wood and objects from your garden. Involve your children to make unique pieces for your family.

Fuse together multiple looks to design a functional and striking fence. Utilize bright colored recycled objects and furniture, like the example below.

Another example of a fusion of ideas is eclectic. When creating a fusion fence, there are no rules, just have fun.