Painting shared fence black?

last year

Hi,

I've been taking inspiration from some of the posts here about fence colours and decided to paint/stain the new privacy fence at the back of the yard black.

Now, I have a question of my own, do I paint the other fences black too?

The fence on the left is shared with a neighbour and is a fence that has 1.5cm gaps between each board. With that in mind I would only paint/stain the face of the board I can see and leave the edges, that way I don't end up getting paint on their side, but I'm not sure if that would good.

Appreciate any advice and thanks in advance.

James

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Sonia
last year
That’s a really good point as fence paint can leak through to the other side where there are gaps. That’s why my fence is natural, but I’ve got a lot of planting so you can’t see much of it.
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kazzh
last year
Although painting is probably the cheaper option, you could work with the uprights and cross boards and attach with a hook system (not nail)your own vertical panels in black then plant taller vertical elements in front of the remaining natural uprights. You would,hopefully, then see more black than natural when you look out.....
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James L
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last year
@kazzh That's an interesting idea to use the existing cross boards. I did consider using the existing fence boards and build my own fence but that would lose some space (not much though ~12cm).

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