CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN FENCES #9

This Garden Fence Style is Base Price + 22%
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To a Maximum 60″ width

Andover, Mass

A Wood Garden Fence Design with an Arts and Crafts signature pattern.

Andover, Mass

Andover, Mass

The architecture of a 1952 home in Andover, Massachusetts is slightly out of sync with a neighborhood dominated by Colonials. And yet it is the only home in the neighborhood that appeals to Charles, and offers, consequently, the full scope of possibilities to the innovations of a designer’s eye. Our #9 Wood Fence Panel no more belongs on a Colonial style home than a pair of khakis belong on Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

Shown with Gate style #79.

Andover, Mass

Viewed from the back yard in the wake of a New England nor’easterly. A Prowell lighted Garden Column leading the way up granite steps to the terrace where there awaits the Wood Garden Fence #9. Finished with WoodRX Patina: Teak (See Recommended Finishes)

Andover, Mass

Andover, Mass

Charles visiting with the house munchkins on an east coast swing, drawn by an inimitable weakness for the silliness of youngsters.

Kensington, CA

Custom Wood Garden Fence #9-3 in Alameda County, CA (The Oakland Hills). Shown again with Gate style #79

Pre-Finished with WoodRX Natural

Kensington, CA

An application where we have a small tight lot dominated by the strong architecture of the house. Because the fence is connected to the house and spans a concrete driveway rather than a landscaped turf, the association is linked more to the house than the landscape. Thus, a finish complimenting the house trim might have fared better for an overall unity. As it stands, the entire fence and gate assembly make for a somewhat pronounced presence. While bearing in mind that this in fact would appear to be our homeowner’s purpose.

Salt Lake City

Custom Wood Garden Fence #9 in Utah, along with Gate style #79.
–Featuring full width top and bottom rails, hence the +24%
Occasionally, as seen below, when the gate is flanked by only two panels, the panels will have the same width horizontal rails as the gate.
One of the many reasons people find Salt Lake City a suitable place to live. The wonderful Wasatch mountain range with it’s renowned powdered ski runs.

Oakland, CA

Our original Wood Garden Fence #9 in Oakland, CA. Panels step up the sloping grade, Stained by the homeowners to match the color of the stained glass window to the right of the front porch. Not a color most of us would have settled upon, but that being one of the minor yet more delectable pleasures of owning a home. Breaking the rules.

Oakland, CA

Revisiting this site 19 years later results in the following photo. A new color, and some corroborative proof that the design and methodology is sound–the panels appear as if they were delivered and installed that very week. Beyond an abrupt impact, there is no reason, whether in Oakland or Duluth or Miami, the panels will not last interminably.

Oakland, CA

What’s this? A Chihuahua on the prowl?

No lower open slots
Washington DCOakland, CA

Partial view of fourteen panels of the Wood Fence Panel #9-5 enclosing the backyard pool.

Washington DC

The residence. The architectural Federalism of Washington DC.

Washington DC

The Wood Garden Fence #9-5 has no lower open slots in the solid planks.

With lower open slots that have a distinct pattern
Berkeley, CA

The below Garden Fence #9-5 and accompanying Wood Gate #79 were installed in 2003, and finally photographed in October of 2020.

It’s always good to accidentally come across a project that has some age. While it helps us to evaluate what methodologies might need improvement, it more commonly confirms the methodologies of 2003 hold up for 16 years without any visible signs of decay or age.

Berkeley, CA

More often than not, Fence #9 is accompanied by Gate style #79. The flared foyer below creates a more encompassing invitation. This layout first appeared in 1998 with Wood Gate #79-4

Washington DC

The installation sequence of all Prowell Fence Panel styles can be reviewed within the PDF step-by-step Installation Guide. Please see Regarding Installation for the various links to installing all products.

A stack of upper picket & grid sections for the fence style #9.
Back left, Swing #21, with accompanying footstool. Waiting for the finishers.

Ben Prowell hand-planing the edges of each and every picket. Although Ben owns an impressive collection of planes, here he uses the Stanley #7 Ben’s father (Charles) used as a boy and Ben’s father’s step-father used as a boy and Ben’s father’s step-father’s father used as a boy and we assume, because of the stamp and serial number dates it to 1888, that Ben’s father’s step-father’s father’s father also used it as a boy, or possibly as a grown man; we’re unsure who he was, actually. We do know he owned this Stanley #7 plane. A humbling thought, imagining what he might have built, back in 1888.