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5 INEXPENSIVE BACKYARD PRIVACY IDEAS
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Oct 3, 2024
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If you would love to spend more time outdoors, but you don't do so because you don't feel like you have enough privacy, you're not alone
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Let's face it, privacy fencing is a luxury for a lot of people
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If you don't live in a subdivision where they've already put up fencing for you or you've moved into a home where the previous owners have already put up fencing, you might find that that's quite an expensive endeavor
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And so a lot of people kind of put it off and they're looking for other ways to get a little bit of privacy in their backyard or in their front yard without having to invest in a full perimeter fencing
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Hi, I'm Lindsay Diane from Diane Decor.com. In this video, we're going to talk all about five cheap ways to block the neighbor's view of your yard
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These are inexpensive, quick hacks. many of them will also work for multi-unit building
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So if you're in an apartment or in a condo and you have a balcony situation, many of these will work for you as well
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Let's start with number one. Number one is an artificial privacy hedge
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Now, I'm going to share with you my screen and I'm going to show you a few examples of this
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Everything that I show, I will leave linked in the description box below
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So an artificial privacy hedge is a sort of fake hedge that you're going to be able to put up along your balcony or along an existing chain fence
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You can also use stakes to create your own perimeter if you don't have any type of existing fencing
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It will still work with some stakes in the ground and you're just going to connect from stake to stake
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Now, this is going to be sold either in tiles that you can install or in a roll that you can kind of roll out, and you'll use zip ties to attach that hedge to either your stakes or your railing or an existing chain link fence
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You can also use these if you have an arbor outside. You can go from post to post
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If you have a porch, a front porch, again, you can go from post to post
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There are a lot of different applications for this artificial privacy hedge
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You can get them in an ivy. They also come in like a boxwood as well if you don't like that ivy style
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But either way it a great inexpensive way for you to get a little bit of privacy out in your backyard or out on your patio Price ranges for artificial hedge fencing or tiled boxwood fencing are going to range
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anywhere between $50 and $200. Option number two is a planter screen combo. So we see a lot of
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privacy screens, but they actually have really beautiful ones that are made out of wood or
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of plastic that are kind of that accordion style so you can kind of stretch them out and let them
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stand up on their own. They also have planters in the bottom of them so that they can create a
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really nice decorative wall for you. Now you can use one or two. It depends on the area that you're
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trying to block. You know, so if you're only looking for like a little 10 by 10 area that you want to
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block off, one may be fine. You may have one on one side for one neighbor and one on the other side
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You can fill your planter boxes with any sort of potted flour that you want
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You could even pot artificial flowers if you wanted to. Either way, this is a really great, inexpensive way to get a little bit of privacy
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Depending on the size of the screen, you're looking at a cost between $100 and $300
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There are a lot of different variations. So I'm going to put a few on the screen
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You know, one is, of course, the wooden sort of, or cedar screen that has planters at the bottom
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But there are also other types. You can have those tall planters that are made to create an enclosed space
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So these are narrow, tall, rectangular planters where your plants would be at the sort of top level
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And then below that where you're seated, you're just going to see sort of a white wall and the view will be blocked from whichever, you know, seating area you set up
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these are around, you know, between $150 and $200. There are also, there are also trellis or lattice-style screens where you have planter boxes at the bottom
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And then if you wanted to, you can apply maybe an artificial hedge or you can grow an ivy or you can just hang potted hanging plants from the lattice to help obscure the view
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These are all really great options for a planter screen combo. Option number three, which is also your least expensive, is to hang some outdoor curtains
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Now this will run you between maybe and for a few panels of curtain Now this is a great solution if you have a balcony They can easily be hung with a pressured you know shower curtain You can hang that up and then hang your curtains from there
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You can also do this if you have posts along your porch or along your covered patio, any place
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where you can run a bar from brick to brick or from post to post, you'll be able to hang up some
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curtains. Along those same lines, if you don't want curtains, you want something a little bit
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fancier, you can also go for some retractable shades. So instead of parting these open to get the
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view, these shades would be attached through a bar at the top, and then they would draw down
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If you want that privacy, if you don't need it, then you can lift the shades up, and you can
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get that sort of full sun experience in your backyard or on your porch or on your balcony
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Option number four are freestanding and retractable screens. Now again, these are great for if
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you want privacy sometimes, but you don't necessarily need it all of the time. These freestanding
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screens can go up and they look very much so like the planter screens, except they're usually
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going to be made of a more like canvas-like material instead of being wooden. So these screens
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usually come in a, you know, a three-panel section where you can put them up or you can have one
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that goes from post to post. It will be a freestanding post and it will be a retractable in between
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so that you can pull that screen when you want the privacy or you can leave it open if you
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don't. These are great if you want to be able to move around your privacy space. So if you want it
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on the patio one day, that's great. But if you want to say sun yourself out on the lawn, on some
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lawn chairs another day, you can move that screen with you very easily. If you have those planted
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you know, the wooden planter ones, those are going to be much more stationary. They're going to be
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hard to move because you're going to have soil in them. They're going to be heavy. But these types of
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are great if you want to be able to move around and create a nice, enclosed, private area for yourself in your yard
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Last but not least is a balcony privacy screen. Now, this is also a very inexpensive option
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It really depends on how far you need to string this roll along, but a roll is going to run you between $20 and $30
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Typically the height of the screen is really only going to be the height of a railing on a balcony So you looking at about three and a half feet
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And the length of the roll is really dependent upon the seller. You can get a 16 foot segment
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You might get a 20 foot segment. You might get a 50 foot segment. But this is something that is easy, easy to put up
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You're just going to connect it to your railing with zip ties. It's fantastic if you are in an apartment
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setting or a condo setting where you have a balcony and you want some privacy
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And a bonus option for you is sail shades. Now, if you are less concerned about the view from the ground from the first level and you are
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more concerned about houses that have second stories that may be looking down onto your patio
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this is going to be where you want to look at having some sale shades installed
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These are relatively inexpensive. Frankly, it's the installation that may be more expensive than the actual sale
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shade itself. You can get these for around $50 or $100 on Amazon depending upon the size
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Usually they come in a triangular shape, but some of them can be more of a rectangular shape
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You just need to anchor these either to the roof line of your home, or you can anchor these
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to your fence or to a tree. You can also get some sail shade poles and anchor those as well
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Either way, this is going to create a shade that's above you that will help block out the view
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from people that are at a higher elevation. What's really flexible and nice about these shades is that you can install them to be sort
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of angled to a certain direction. So you don't have to have them flat across
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You can have them where there's a pole down here and they're angled kind of down and shading out a certain area
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So whether it's a view or whether you're shading from the sun, they work really well because they're flexible like that
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So a sail shade is a bonus option if you are trying to create some privacy from eyes
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that may be viewing from above your elevation. So that's it for this video
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I hope you found it helpful. Don't forget to visit me at diane decor.com
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I'll see it in the next one. Thanks for watching. Bye
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