10 Composite Fencing Ideas to Transform Your Outdoor Space

If you’re looking for attractive and practical garden fence ideas, our range of composite fencing might provide the inspiration you need. Our 10 composite fencing ideas will help you transform your outdoor space with durable, stylish fencing available in a range of colours. Whether you combine them with composite decking or use them on your own, composite fencing panels are a tough, lightweight, and beautiful choice for enhancing any garden.

Our composite fencing comes in a wide range of colours, including gorgeous shades of browns, greys, blacks and whites. From a natural Walnut and rich Sage Green, through versatile Ash and Stone, to bold Graphite and clean White Onyx, our composite fencing can help bring life to any garden, regardless of the theme, colour scheme or space available.

Just as with composite decking, there are many composite fencing benefits when compared to traditional wooden fencing. Composite fencing is extremely low maintenance, as it doesn’t need to be regularly painted or stained to prevent rotting and warping. It’s tough, scratch-proof and weather-resistant. It can add an elegant look to any outdoor space, and it’s also eco-friendly as it has a long product lifetime and is made from a combination of recycled wood and plastic.

Article Contents

• 1. Integrate Lighting
• 2. Contrast Your Fencing and Decking
• 3. Match Your Fencing and Decking
• 4. Include a Trellis Top
• 5. Utilise Existing Structures
• 6. Add Plants
• 7. Add a Dual Tone Fence
• 8. Add a Composite Trellis Garden Screen
• 9. Secure Fencing Posts Behind Panels
• 10. Incorporate a Gravel Board

1. Integrate Lighting

Getting the right lighting can enhance any garden, but it can look really stunning with the sleek finish and colours of composite fencing. Having adequate lighting in place can also make entertaining or relaxing in your outdoor space safer and easier.

Solar lights can be a great choice for most composite garden fence ideas as they don’t need to be plugged in and can save on energy costs. Other types of lighting can also be utilised, either with an outdoor power source or safely arranged and secured cables from inside. Stringed lights, spotlights and recessed lights can all be used to create different effects and moods, and you can experiment with spacing, placements and colours until you get the desired effect.

2. Contrast Your Fencing and Decking

A lot of composite garden fencing ideas work particularly well when you combine the fencing with composite decking for a stunning overall effect. One bold and eye-catching way to do this is to use decking and fencing that contrast with each other. This will typically mean using a darker colour for the decking and a lighter one for the fencing, or vice versa.

Both our composite fencing and composite decking are available in a wide range of colours, allowing for many different themes and colour schemes. The decking boards are also reversible, with each featuring a grooved side and a textured side for even greater versatility.

3. Match Your Fencing and Decking

Instead of contrasting your composite fencing and composite decking, you could choose to go for more closely matching materials, colours and finishes for a more cohesive look. When it comes to decking fence ideas, it all comes down to personal taste, and you might prefer an overall theme that subtly blends them together.

Matching fencing and decking colours can make smaller spaces feel larger, and it can also make larger spaces feel more unified, depending on your desired look. You can choose the same shade for both elements, such as a sleek pearl composite decking with matching pearl composite fence panels. They don’t have to match exactly though, and you could go for two different shades of grey or differing but complementary colours such as natural browns and greys.

4. Include a Trellis Top

Adding a garden trellis screen top to your composite fence panels can add a beautiful decorative flourish to your garden fence ideas. Our trellis tops come in four stylish designs, from the natural leaf-inspired Areca and Botanic to the more geometric Mosaic and Spectrum. As well as adding a pleasing aesthetic, trellis tops can have practical uses, such as increasing the height of the fence without blocking out sunlight and providing an anchor for climbing plants. Trellis tops are a great way to enhance your privacy without stopping natural light coming into your garden.

5. Utilise Existing Structures

As well as coming in a range of stylish colours, our composite fencing is available with a number of installation options. We can supply fencing complete with 1.8m aluminium posts (or 2.4m) or with aluminium railings to insert into existing concrete posts. Getting rid of existing concrete posts can be a big job, especially if they’re in reasonable condition and you’re going to be replacing them anyway.

Using our aluminium railings allows you to make use of concrete posts that are already there, considerably reducing the work and/or costs involved in installation. It also means that our composite fence panels can be used to replace old wooden fence panels that are damaged, rotten or just past their prime. This can be a great way to give your garden a rejuvenating makeover and improve security if the existing fence is degraded, flimsy or damaged.

6. Add Plants

Studies have shown that being surrounded by plants can be beneficial for mental health, and bringing in flowers and greenery can add a touch of serenity to all sorts of decking fencing ideas. Adding plants and flowers can soften composite fencing designs, providing natural beauty to the outdoor space, and giving splashes of colour that can serve as focal points or embellishments.

There are many different ways that you can incorporate plants into garden fence ideas. These include raised beds and borders that run beneath the fencing and climbing plants using trellises. Potted plants are often an ideal option if you combine composite fencing with decking, and trees and shrubs can be planted alongside fences with a soil base.

7. Dual-Tone Composite Fence

One striking option is to use a dual-tone approach to your composite fencing design. Alternating different colours or shades of fence panel is one way to do it, but this might be a step too far for many garden designs. A more subtle way to build in different tones is to combine darker fence posts with lighter composite fence panels, or vice versa.

Our aluminium posts can produce an impressive framing effect, especially with lighter fence panelling, while our aluminium railings allow the fence panels to be used with concrete posts. You can leave the posts as they are or paint them in the colour of your choice – though concrete should be properly prepared and painted with a suitable product.

8. Add a Composite Trellis Garden Screen

A trellis is essentially a framework used to support climbing plants. This can work really well if you want to incorporate plants into your garden fence ideas, but a trellis can also be an attractive feature in its own right. There are a number of different types of trellis for your home that can all work with different fencing themes and styles.

Our composite trellis garden screens work very well with plants or can be used as purely decorative pieces. They come in four designs and three colours and are also reversible, featuring a smooth finish or wood grain effect. This makes them extremely versatile for any garden design, and they can be quickly and easily installed alongside composite fencing. Their composite build also makes them much more durable than wooden trellises, which can rot or become brittle over time.

9. Secure Fencing Posts Behind Panels

Fence panels of any kind usually slot into the grooves between concrete or aluminium posts. This can be a great look and can even be made into a feature, as in our composite garden fence idea above for using dual tones. A different approach is to secure composite fence panels in front of concrete posts to help create a seamless fencing look. This can be ideal for a garden with a sleek modern theme, but you should ensure that the fence panels are securely anchored and select suitable brackets or fittings that are compatible with composite materials.

10. Incorporate a Gravel Board

A gravel board is a narrow panel that traditionally sits between the fence panel and the ground. It may be made of concrete, wood or composite materials, and its primary purpose is to protect the fencing from moisture, debris and insect damage. With composite fencing being a more durable option compared to timber fencing, a gravel board is not strictly necessary. However, it can still be used to enhance the design, providing another kind of framing effect. All of our composite fencing is tough and weather resistant, but our Premium Range is even more durable thanks to its Dino Shield water-resistant polymer sleeve.

Discover Our Range of Composite Fencing

Choosing the right fencing can really enhance the look and feel of your outdoor space, as well as providing the security and privacy you need. Our composite fencing comes in a range of colours and installation options, making it the perfect fit for every taste and garden fence idea.

Our composite fence panels not only look great but are also extremely practical, with a tough build and built-in resistance to rot, warping and weather damage that makes them far more durable than traditional wooden fences. They can also be effectively combined with our range of composite decking and accessories, such as decking balustrade railings.

Order your free composite fencing samples for more inspiration or get in touch with our friendly and experienced team for further advice.