Our mirror mosaic fence. We had a blast creating this. Amazing what can come from a broken mirror mishap.
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Marg C oh no! I hope your insurance will cover it because new fences can be spendy. Check out the post on how to pick lumber to make sure you get good material. Our 1st neighbor bought the lowest priced stuff for his fence, it was green and the wood did all it normal stuff including the knots popping out. The 3rd homeowner replaced it all last summer. The fence was less than 6 yrs old. Good luck with your new fence project. -
Marg C I am so sorry about your fence :( We lost ours too + house flooded but we are better off than most so I feel very lucky ! Susan S I am still thinking of doing the mirrors on shed in the spring, make my tiny yard look bigger... have to wait for new shed tho, lost our shed to Sandy too lol. -
Kathleen M - I'm soooo sorry to hear you were in the path of Sandy!! I just can't even imagine what a nightmare it must be to clean up after all that water and then worrying about mold etc. I know there are others who lost everything so they don't even have the luxury of dealing w/cleaning up when there's nothing left!! Good luck to you!! -
Susan S Thanks very much.
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It wasn't a big loss Kelly S because it was only 2 panels on one side by the woods. It was very old anyway and needed replacing....come to think of it, why I wanted to do this beautiful artwork on something so old, I'll never know...everything happens for a reason they say....I would have done it and then it would have been destroyed LOL.... I'm inpatient like that though..I didn't realize (which I do now) that the posts were ...» -
Your welcome. I'm glad it wasn't everything gone.
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awww so sorry that you were also flooded Kathleen M ... I know all too well about floods. We were flooded out when I lived on the Neversink River in Port Jervis,,NY2005...could only see the upstairs and the roof when it was all said and done. We stayed in a Hotel for days before the water receded enough to go home. What a tragedy that was. We lost alot. I hope you didn't lose much.
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Marg C - I had no idea you had been thru a previous flood. I'll bet when the forecasts for Sandy started being projected you were probably absolutely terrified and petrified!!
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we no longer live in that house Susan S :) we now live on a hill/small mountain! I'm still scrounging for pics of my children that I lost in that flood! all of my precious memories gone!
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@Marg C we lost 35 yrs of family photos and a few treasured family heirlooms but like Susan S said we are fortunate. I have friends whose houses washed away. The people at the Jersey Shore and Coastal NY / CT will be rebuilding for years.
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Kathleen M & Marg C - Wow - I just can't begin to imagine how you pick up the pieces and go on. But, you do what you have to do!! The heart-wrenching scenes I've seen on TV of the folks who have nothing left but a few scraps of things they've managed to find - and just the place where their home used to be, reduced to a pile of rubble - but if you were lucky enough to have survived (and sadly, some did not) then you really know how precious life really is.
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I still am planning to do a mirrored mosaic fence before I die or before I am too old to move about. Kathleen M I am so sorry you had to suffer the flood. May many sweet joys lie ahead for you and your family. I hope relatives will have a picture here and there for you -
That's amazing! -
Has anyone thought about the sun reflecting from the mirror and possibly causing a fire? Just wondering. -
It makes the fence look like a lace cut out .. that is just awesome ... -
Thanks Marion C. I think it looks like a cut out also. Leslie Murphy--We don't have a sun reflection problem because it is all done on a fence that is completely under a tree. The sun never hits it directly. Thanks for the concern. -
Amazing...now this is creativity at its best. Hats off to you with such a great idea -
Love this idea!!! :) -
So so beautiful! -
I love this!!! -
Love this idea but I think I'm too lazy for this project. Great to look at tho. Sorry for all of you and your losses in floods and hurricanes. I can't imagine how any fences withstand those winds. We lost our entire chainlink fence to a wind storm here in CA and I'm sure the wind speed was nothing like hurricane force. I am forced to buy flood insurance here but we have been here 40 years and so far no floods (thankfully). Can't imagine how it feels to lose all your pictures as well as ...» -
I love this!!! -
This fence is fabulous. What material did you use to bond the mirror firmly to the fence...how did you cut the mirrors? -
I just LOVE this and I can't wait to try this in my yard. Thanks for sharing ! -
Thanks Ann, I was wondering the same thing on how to bond to the fence. I'm sure they used a glass cutter to cut the pieces but the bonding is different.
