Building A Garden Fence Door

If you need to fence in an area for a garden or a small animal enclosure an inexpensive and easy to build wire mesh fence may be your best option.

Building a garden fence door.

You can purchase a gate for your wire fence but with a little work you can also save some money by building your own. Mine i kind of made up as i went along. Measure the entry at the top and bottom as they can easily be different. This is where building a fence gets exciting.

Cut or buy 2 pieces of wood 24 x 1 inches long and 2 pieces of 30 x 1 inches. All the hard work is mostly done. The gate is essentially a braced rectangle with the wire mesh attached over it. How to make a garden fence door.

I used the remaining wood pieces from our wooden pack and hubby just cut them to the length we needed 2 x 24 pieces and 2 x 30 pieces. Make sure the fence posts can support a gate if you already have a fence. If it is wider you must make and hang two gates which will meet in the middle. Transforming a closed and forbidding garden fence into an inviting entryway is as simple as opening your mind and the door to your shed to the decorative touch of unused tools lying in your shed.

I tied a string across the top of the fence to indicate where i wanted the tops of the slats to be. Some fences follow the terrain while others are created with level tops it s just up to what you need and want. Fences that took less time to build because they were planned out ahead of time or even bought as an e z prefab kit.