Creating Privacy Outdoors

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Creating privacy outdoors should be a priority when creating an outdoor room, especially when living in the city and suburbs. You can do this in a variety of ways, but the easiest to to create visual barriers, which can be created of just about anything: plants, stacked wood, fences, living walls, cabanas, and more. The type of screen you choose depends on the level of privacy you need. A curtain provides a visual barrier, but no sound protection. A fence provides more of both.

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{image: Andrew Sidford via Design Sponge}

A combination of trees, plants, and fences creates a private oasis in this London backyard.

{images: Jamie Durie and Indecora}

A living wall offers privacy in this outdoor dining room, while the roof keeps sound contained and the space dry. A rustic roof on a Moroccan rooftop provides privacy and shade in one.

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Large bushes create a wall behind this outdoor lounge, and an umbrella creates a roof and a feeling of enhanced privacy.

{image: Elizabeth Dinkel Design Associates via Decorati Access}

{image: Jamie Bush via Debra Prinzing}

A vintage cabana is transformed into an outdoor dining room, offering privacy and shelter.

{images: Roger Marvel Architects via Trendir and Alex de Cordoba via Design Sponge}

{images: Unknown via Furniture for Life and Catovic Hughes via Dwell}

{image: Italian Villas via Brooke Giannetti}

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Create a privacy screen out of unique materials, like these attached vintage doors painted in bright blues and greens.

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{image: Akana Design via Lost in the Landscape}

How do you create privacy outdoors? My husband often fantasizes of the Central American combination of privacy and security: tall courtyard walls topped with crushed glass. I think his introverted-ness is showing in that fantasy, don’t you?!