Privacy is becoming an issue with housing lots getting smaller and homes being built so close together.
Do you feel comfortable walking outside on your patio just in your PJs or underwear? Do your neighbours play with drones, or have children with cubby houses overlooking your yard, or trampolines by your fence line? Even if your neighbours don’t live in a two-storey house overlooking your backyard, privacy can feel almost non-existent these days.
Our home is our castle… our sanctuary. Or it should be. We should be able to enjoy privacy in our own backyard, patio, or pool area without fear of our personal space being invaded by onlookers – accidentally or otherwise. By the same token, we don’t want to build solid walls that block out airflow and light and make us feel like we’re imprisoned.
What we want is a cost-effective solution to provide privacy without making us feel like we are still indoors. We want our outside entertaining areas to look and feel different, otherwise we may as well just stay inside.
Christian Jenkins (Winning Landscape Design) Melbourne Flower Show using NewTechWood UH55 in Ebony
Stylish answer to the privacy problem
A classy and practical way to add privacy is to use decorative composite screening, which also offers a myriad of other practical and decorative uses for garden and patio challenges and designs. These can be panels, lattice, or battens allowing for airflow and light – and in addition to providing you with privacy from prying eyes, also add to the aesthetics of your outdoor entertaining areas.
JFK Carpentry using NewTechWood US36, Silver Grey
Complementary composite privacy screen for decks
A composite privacy screen can also assist to protect your entertaining spaces from wind, or heat from the afternoon sun, and reduce noise levels. You can install it around your decks and patio areas, or use it to screen off parts of your yard that even you don’t want to look at – storage areas, ugly sheds, swimming pool pumps and equipment, etc.
Outdoor Carpentry & Design / Project Artichoke – NewTechWood Decking and Screening
Easy installation
Our NewTechWood Screening Installation guidelines are possibly the shortest set of instructions of all our install guides. Why? Because the composite timber screening is so easy to install, whether using the Hollow UH55 composite screening profiles or the Solid and thinner US36 screening board. NewTechWood’s screening products are innovative and a perfect solution for a range of applications including your patio, decking or a dividing fence structure.
Originally published on NewTechWood.
Main image: Swanbourne, WA – NewTechWood UH55 in Canadian Cedar
