Painting a wooden picket fence in two colors

A wooden fence marks the border of the territory and serves as a decoration for a site of a house or summer cottage. The natural woody shade looks beautiful, but sometimes you need to diversify the color scheme with two colors so that the brightly colored fence organically fits into the design of the courtyard landscape. The choice of interesting combination options depends on the wishes of the customer, who listens to the advice of designers. You can paint the fence in soothing colors or pick up an original live tandem of colors.

Choice of shades and color options

A fence made of boards in the private sector looks beautiful, painted in two colors that are in harmony with each other. A win-win option is when shades of the same color are combined nearby.

To correctly determine the version of the design, you need to look around in order to take into account the surrounding reality and other important factors:

• the color of the facade of the building, the roof of the building, elements of the improvement of landscape design;
• the presence of vegetation around the fence, the height of bushes, trees, flowering flower beds, gardens, green spaces;
• the practicality of the chosen colors.

Individuality is needed in design, but excessive emphasis on the background of the surrounding areas will not lead to harmony. A flashy color combination will show that the owners lack taste or they got an inexperienced landscape designer.

What determines the choice of the color of the fence

The color palette changes the mood of the people around you, especially if the chosen color is constantly in sight. Red color, according to Feng Shui experts, changes well-being for the better, but irritates the psyche. For large areas, when painting a wooden picket fence, it is better to take more muted tones, for example, apply burgundy or red-brown.

The height and function of the fence are taken into account when choosing. If it is low and designed to show the border, they take a light and even white color. The abundance of vegetation around dictates the use of natural shades, but different from green. The herbal color scheme will be lost against the background of crowns and bushes, and brown with gray or beige will look natural, like stone or sand against the background of foliage.

Different tones are used for different sides of the fence. For example, the interior is visible only to the owners, it should be combined with the interior design of the yard. The outer side emphasizes the individuality of the site, while taking into account the color and material of the entrance group, driveways.

Which color is easier to clean

Dust and splashes of rain are visible on the black fence, scratches are clearly visible on the dark surface. White shades are more practical, evoke positive emotions, but there is little originality in this color scheme. You can paint the fence beautifully in two colors, for example, white can be combined with any shade.

Gray color is one of the most unmarked for fences, but there is a danger of dullness in the design. If you take a silver color, metallic, then it can be perfectly combined with cream, fuchsia, pale lilac. The blue color scheme is pleasing to the eye, but belongs to the brand group.

Yellow and purple complement each other; against the background of these colors, iron and concrete pillars of a wooden fence look great. It is most practical to cover most of the fence with glazed varnishes and keep the natural color, so dust and dirt will be less noticeable. A brick, marsh, terracotta color scheme will serve as an addition.

The combination of colors of the fence and facade

The combined palette is determined by the architecture of the building, its style, the color of the walls, and the roof. If the fence is painted to match the facade, it will visually merge with the building, but the protective functions will remain the same. A fence on a new site where small seedlings grow, while the walls of the house are painted in a light brown color scheme, can be made in a combination of olive and pale green tones.

The bright red roof should be balanced by the calm color of the picket fence, for example, burgundy and steel colors will work in this case. Blue and green roofs, ceramic tiles on the facade will look compact with pale yellow and milky-cream shades.

The blue color of the fence is suitable for buildings made of silicate bricks, it is combined with the color of the sea wave, pebbles. The brown-chocolate picket fence looks great with the white walls of the building, it can be combined with beige, green, yellow.

Landscaping tips

The group of universal colors includes gray, brown, black and white. Designers advise using them if the owner cannot make a certain choice. Against the background of green bushes, the black plane of the picket fence looks great along with white contrasting elements.

Expert advice:

• For houses made of natural wood, the picket fence is left in a natural color, only emphasized with wood stain and varnished. As a combination to such a composition, the racks of iron, concrete and framing elements are painted in a contrasting black and white color.
• It is better to paint the fence with pastel colors, and give brightness due to decorative elements of a bright color scheme.

Noble shades on the fence look beautiful, for example, burgundy, deep gray and rich blue.

Materials and tools for painting

Wood is a capricious material that deteriorates from moisture, frost, therefore, protective and resistant compositions for painting are chosen. Oil coatings are used, which form a dense moisture-proof film. Enamels fade faster from the sun, but their cost is cheaper.

Prepare tools for work:

• roller with fur or velor nozzle;
• brush for touching up hard-to-reach areas;
• a tray for stirring paint with a squeezing shelf;
• gloves, respirator, rags.

The best choice is outdoor latex paint, which dries quickly and reliably protects against moisture. The coating does not fade over time, remains saturated, does not flake off from temperature changes. The paint is elastic, does not crack if the plane of the picket fence bends from the wind.

Step-by-step instruction

With two-color painting, the borders of the areas are separated from each other with masking tape. The width of the scotch tape is taken 4 - 6 cm, so that the roller or brush does not exactly get out of bounds. In this case, the first color scheme is applied without tape sticking, trying to approximately maintain the transition line. Only after the first shade has dried is the dividing strip glued so that the control edge of the adhesive tape is clearly on the border.

You can use a spray gun to make an even coating and save paint. The device is used on large areas, as a result, the operating time is reduced, and the productivity increases. For painting a continuous area, a roller nozzle of 20 - 25 cm is chosen, and for a picket fence, removable parts are bought along the width of the board.

How to remove old paint from a fence

Without preparation, the new layer will not adhere well to the wood, it will crack and swell in the near future.

To remove the old coating, the following methods are used:

• thermal;
• mechanical;
• chemical.

The first method is to use a hot air jet, such as a hairdryer or a gas burner. After raising the layer, the paint is cleaned with a spatula. The mechanical method is the use of scrapers, knives. For large surfaces, sandblasting is used, which will accurately remove all particles of old paint.

In the chemical method, the surface of the wood is treated with washes that dissolve the film, and it easily moves away from the plane.

After dry cleaning, rinse the surface well so that no traces of solvent remain on it.

Wooden fence painting process

Before applying the decorative layer, the tree is treated with impregnations to increase moisture resistance. Cover with agents against microorganisms and rapid ignition. Sometimes these drugs are combined in one composition.

Step-by-step order of work:

1. Priming the surface of the boards with special preparations. For oil paints, enamels, take drying oil, solvent-based products, white spirit. Water-based primers are used before latex materials.
2. They begin to paint on top of the fence, gradually lowering. The composition is applied to a certain area, where it is shaded in different directions, and ends with vertical stripes.

They paint 2 - 3 times, a new layer is applied after the previous one has dried. The top layer can be done with oil or water based varnish.