My house is on a corner and my front garden is mostly lawn. I'd like to stop people from walking on my lawn, but I don't want a fence to obstruct the view of the house as I like it open. A house down the road has a simple fence or border made of white wooden posts joined by a painted metal chain. It's a great idea as it says "keep out" without obstructing the view.

Firstly, does anyone know what such a fence or border is called? I'm trying to search the web for this type of fencing but I cannot find anything.

Secondly, do you have any ideas for me whereby I can achieve the same objective with a different type of structure?

Many thanks in advance for your assistance.

Lunk.

I live on a corner in a densely populated development, which is a school bus stop. Kids walk here from all over, naturally looking for the shortest path. This path used to be right across my front lawn until we put up a fence from the back yard to the corner. It doesn't go across the front of our property, just down the one side.

Before the fence went up, I tried plants, shrubs, mulched beds. The kids just walked through it all. Once the brown vinyl-coated chain link went up, all that stopped. The fence went up in the early 80's before all these lovely white fence choices existed. Back then it was stockade, chain link or split rail, period. The chain link is hidden with clematis and a perennial/shrub border now.

A neighbor on the next corner tried split rail for the same problem, but the kids actually climbed through it to cut across her yard. If you're considering a border, it will need to be high enough that people can't step over it.