Decorating Fences for the Holidays

It's that time of year again! Decorating for the holidays is a fun and festive way to show your holiday spirit. Most families decorate their house and/or yard for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other winter holidays, but forget their fence. A wood fence, a picket fence, vinyl fencing, or metal fences each lend themselves to create decorating spaces.

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Bring Your Fence to Life

It doesn't matter what type of fence you have in your home, you can use various decorations to bring your yard to life. Using large cloth or vinyl cutouts, drape them over the fence and secure with clothespins or other types of clips. This works for all holidays.

Use wrapping paper and large ribbons to create presents for Christmas. You may want to punch small holes in the paper to help the wind go through it and not take the paper down.

Use Lights

Do not regulate your colorful lights to Christmas alone. Use white lights for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Create a winter wonderland scene with white lights. There are also white and orange string lights available for Halloween. Be creative and cover a tree, a garden fence, or a fence gate, completely with lights, and don't forget the driveway.

Garland and Beads

Drape rope garland or strings of beads along the fence top for a more elegant look. Add festive wreaths to several posts for the best final additions.

Halloween colored beads of orange, purple, and green can become a fun decoration for the upcoming candy night. Add a string or two of lights to help guide the costumed kids to your front door.

Contact a Brentwood fence contractor to help with fence repairs and decorating. If you are interested in enhancing your backyard with aluminum fencing, custom wood fencing, composite fences or a deck and gazebo, call Franklin Fence and Deck at 615-790-8428 for a free estimate. Alternatively, contact them by email at franklinfence@yahoo.com.