This is a photo of the left hand side of our patio. Our neighbour on that sides house is set further back than ours. His garden is also higher as he is 'up' the hill and we are 'down' to him. There used to be lots of branches from one of their shrubs that cover behind the bit of trellis we put up years back.
However he decided to cut it back, which meant that we could now see his big yellow van and his side window and back house wall. That meant he and anyone walking along the side of his house had full view of our patio and garden furniture.
So while we have been putting in the new fence panels further down the garden we came across some trellis we'd used before we had the new gazebo. At the bottom of the above photo you can see the top of some black trellis we added between the two posts as the start of our privacy plan.
We had bought two secondhand stained glass windows which have a design which is called lion head.
So on top of the trellis we stood the windows. The perfect size!
Paul fixed the windows to the wooden rail above that supports the pergola and also into the post on the right hand side. Paul then cut down a large piece of trellis to fill the gap on the left between the existing post and the windows.
Windows seen from other side of Gazebo.
So a small rearranging of a couple of standards and an acer that was just over on the right hand side into the middle for balance and now we have our privacy back.
You can see the afternoon sun hitting the windows and plants and making them shine. When time allows we will remove the white paint and paint them black to match the trellis.
We had originally bought these old windows for a different project but we found some really beautiful ones which we will now use for the original project.
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