Eichler Fence

Put in a new fence over at my parents house and thought of milling the boards with similar top treatment as your's. Once milled with vertical groves like your diagrams, it would have the same look.

Here's the pictures of my parents I put in a couple years ago. Dado blade on my radial arm and table saw to get the lap joint for the boards. Made up a sample like your diagrams and just a bit more work to mill the boards on both sides.

For the top treatment, the lattice could be turned 45* or find them already oriented that way or nail/screw in square rods.

This fence is 8 feet tall with 4x6 pressure treated posts and 4x6 rails (both readwood and pressure treated).

Used to be two fences, but talked the neighbor into a common fence and share the cost. Plus each side gained a few inches of useable yard.

Both sides are exactly the same too. Also almost no fasteners show on either side.

From the neighbors side.

The new gate & our patio, which I'm now working on some shelfs built into the patio 4x4 poles. These shelves will hold the Bonzi's & other potted plants.

The paito now has the proper brace (the orinmental iron work & 2x12 used to have a 4x4 at the end holding it up). Notice that the patio seems to float with no support at that corner. The nephews and daughters took out that 4x4 when I wasn't looking, so that corner was only held up by the 2x12 bolted to the wall. Welded up a 4x8 angle iron that tied the building corner to the fence/gate post (found that China has driven up the price of steel by almost 4x).

The gate can be done same as your design too. Another session with the dado blade. That gate weighs around 200 lbs when I made it. Wet wood. 2x6 pressure treated frame with brace inside and 1 inch thick boards glued/screwed to the 2x6's.

While the fence you built looks pretty for your parents house, you don't want to give Eichler owners any bad ideas.

If you are an Eichler owner, just say no to lattice!

ps. dommi99 has the right idea in terms of design, just make sure that you stain or paint whatever you build before you call the project complete!

love the sketches! i've been torturing myself with a nice fence design for weeks now. you know, the usual, something of a marriage between the eichler aesthetic and my own. many, many sketches and neighborhood 'drive-bys' later, i keep wishing there were a 'database' of sorts, containing sketches, photos, NAMES OF CONTRACTORS WHO DO GREAT WORK!, etc. it seems like there are a lot of folks in the eichler community with great ideas, but there is no 'collective idea pool' for us all to draw from. anyway, i appreciate you sharing your drawings...

I think your fence sketches look really nice and true to the home. Good work. Please EVERYONE keep away from the lattice which is not true to Eichler design!

dommi99, great sketches! Makes me wish I had a fence out front. You reminded me that i bought a book at a garage sale this summer called the "Homeowner's Complete Outdoor Building Book" by John Burton Brimer. You can find it used on Amazon for less than $2

Anyways it was originally written in '59 and illustrated by the author. So, it's got several interesting late '50's fence designs, and some trellises that would make good fences as well.

There are other great outdoor building examples in the book that i've envied on other Eichlers such as simple-looking wood benches and decks.