Hedges, wooden fences and the like were modern privacy ideas for the garden a few years ago. Today the trend is towards other variants.
A garden today is much more than just a place where fruit and vegetables are grown. Nowadays, a garden is used much more for relaxation and recreation. After all, after a stressful day at work, there is nothing better than sitting in the middle of flowers, putting your feet up and enjoying the nice weather. Be it on the porch swing, by the pool or on the garden lounger.
So nowadays a garden is almost like a living room. Here you can sit with friends and family and celebrate garden parties, romp around with the children or just relax. Anyone who has a garden can count themselves really lucky. There is only a problem if the garden faces the street and everyone can see you. The same applies to neighbors who like to peek over the garden fence far too much. This can also become quite annoying over time. After all, the garden should be a retreat where you can do whatever you want, and not a platter.
If you're fed up with the prying eyes, you can quickly put an end to it all. All you have to do is place one or more privacy screens in the garden. So you are not only protected from prying eyes, you also automatically create sun protection. So you kill two birds with one stone! Creating hedges, however, would take too long until they are big enough. And wooden fences, high garden walls as well as privacy and sun protection elements made of willow are no longer really modern. Those who want to follow the current trend prefer to use privacy screens made of glass, gabions or perforated metal.
3 modern privacy and sun protection ideas for the garden
❶ Privacy & sun protection made of perforated metal:
Integrating perforated sheets in the garden is currently very popular. First of all, more and more rubbish bins disappeared under a cladding made of perforated sheet metal (see example on www.self.de) - and that was a visual highlight.But now perforated sheets are often used in a different way in house and courtyard design. For example, as privacy and sun protection in the garden and around the house. Yes, the sheets are even being used more and more in the home. Just look at the Kolding campus of the University of Southern Denmark. In cooperation with the architect Henning Larsen and the RMIG, a sun protection made of aluminum perforated sheets was created, the facade of which covers an area of 4,500 m² (source: www.architektur-welt.de). The facade is now not only an aesthetic eye-catcher, but also results in energy savings.
What looks great in the house naturally looks just as good in the garden. The good thing: You can determine the design of the privacy and sun protection yourself, because there are perforated sheets with round holes, square perforations and sheets with a special pattern. So there should be something for every taste.
❷ Glass privacy and sun protection:
Visual and sun protection elements made of frosted glass or with completely printed elements are also very trendy at the moment. They look modern and somehow noble (see some examples on deavita.com). Accordingly, you give your garden that very special something. You also don't have to be afraid that the glass elements will quickly break. They are usually made of impact-resistant safety glass and…
- easy-care
- weather resistant
- durable
- easy to assemble
Glass privacy and sun protection elements are therefore perfect for anyone who wants an exclusive look, modern design and low maintenance.
❸ Privacy & sun protection made of gabions:
We have often seen gabions in parks and gardens in recent years. However, then often only as a garden fence that runs around the entire property. Gabions can also stand directly in the garden and be a real eye-catcher. At least for you as a garden owner, because your neighbors or curious passers-by will not see much thanks to the privacy screen. Planned correctly, you can use them to protect areas from the sun and prying eyes.
The good thing: Gabions can be filled in many different ways. For example with natural stones, bricks, quarry stones or also with glass chunks. The latter variant looks particularly beautiful, because when the sun shines on it, the stones really shine. You can also illuminate the stones in the evening.In the dark, the gabion is transformed from a normal privacy and sun protection to an absolute highlight in the garden. Just take a look at the examples on www.gabionenlicht.de and see for yourself how great illuminated gabions can look.